monkey/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog.

[Unreleased]

Added

Changed

• "Communicate as Backdoor User" PBA's HTTP requests to request headers only and include a timeout. #1577

Removed

• The VSFTPD exploiter. #1533
• Manual agent run command for CMD. #1570
• Sambacry exploiter. #1567
• "Kill file" option in the config. #1536
• Netstat collector, because network connection information wasn't used anywhere. #1535
• Checkbox to disable/enable sending log to server. #1537
• Checkbox for self deleting a monkey agent on cleanup. #1537
• Checkbox for file logging. #1537
• Remove serialization of config. #1537
• Checkbox that gave the option to not try to first move the dropper file. #1537
• Custom singleton mutex name config option. #1589

Fixed

• A bug in network map page that caused delay of telemetry log loading. #1545
• Windows "run as a user" powershell command for manual agent runs. #1570
• A bug in the "Signed Script Proxy Execution" PBA that downloaded the exe on Linux systems as well. #1557

Security

[1.12.0] - 2021-10-27

Added

• A new exploiter that allows propagation via PowerShell Remoting. #1246
• A warning regarding antivirus when agent binaries are missing. #1450
• A deployment.json file to store the deployment type. #1205

Changed

• The name of the "Communicate as new user" post-breach action to "Communicate as backdoor user". #1410
• Resetting login credentials also cleans the contents of the database. #1495
• ATT&CK report messages (more accurate now). #1483
• T1086 (PowerShell) now also reports if ps1 scripts were run by PBAs. #1513
• ATT&CK report messages to include internal config options as reasons for unscanned attack techniques. #1518

Removed

• Internet access check on agent start. #1402
• The "internal.monkey.internet_services" configuration option that enabled internet access checks. #1402
• Disused traceroute binaries. #1397
• "Back door user" post-breach action. #1410
• Stale code in the Windows system info collector that collected installed packages and WMI info. #1389
• Insecure access feature in the Monkey Island. #1418
• The "deployment" field from the server_config.json. #1205
• The "Execution through module load" ATT&CK technique, since it can no longer be exercise with current code. #1416
• Browser window pop-up when Monkey Island starts on Windows. #1428

Fixed

• Misaligned buttons and input fields on exploiter and network configuration pages. #1353
• Credentials shown in plain text on configuration screens. #1183
• Crash when unexpected character encoding is used by ping command on German language systems. #1175
• Malfunctioning timestomping PBA. #1405
• Malfunctioning shell startup script PBA. #1419
• Trap command produced no output. #1406
• Overlapping Guardicore logo in the landing page. #1441
• PBA table collapse in security report on data change. #1423
• Unsigned Windows agent binaries in Linux packages are now signed. #1444
• Some of the gathered credentials no longer appear in plaintext in the database. #1454
• Encryptor breaking with UTF-8 characters. (Passwords in different languages can be submitted in the config successfully now.) #1490
• Mimikatz collector no longer fails if Azure credential collector is disabled. #1512, #1493
• Unhandled error when "modify shell startup files PBA" is unable to find regular users. #1507
• ATT&CK report bug that showed different techniques' results under a technique if the PBA behind them was the same. #1514
• ATT&CK report bug that said that the technique ".bash_profile and .bashrc" was not attempted when it actually was attempted but failed. #1511
• Bug that periodically cleared the telemetry table's filter. #1392
• Crashes, stack traces, and other malfunctions when data from older versions of Infection Monkey is present in the data directory. #1114
• Broken update links. #1524

Security

• Generate a random password when creating a new user for CommunicateAsNewUser PBA. #1434
• Credentials gathered from victim machines are no longer stored plaintext in the database. #1454
• Encrypt the database key with user's credentials. #1463

[1.11.0] - 2021-08-13

Added

• A runtime-configurable option to specify a data directory where runtime configuration and other artifacts can be stored. #994
• Scripts to build an AppImage for Monkey Island. #1069, #1090, #1136, #1381
• log_level option to server config. #1151
• A ransomware simulation payload. #1238
• The capability for a user to specify their own SSL certificate. #1208
• API endpoint for ransomware report. #1297
• A ransomware report. #1240
• A script to build a docker image locally. #1140

Changed

• Select server_config.json at runtime. #963
• Select Logger configuration at runtime. #971
• Select mongo_key.bin file location at runtime. #994
• Store Monkey agents in the configurable data_dir when monkey is "run from the
• island". #997
• Reformat all code using black. #1070
• Sort all imports using isort. #1081
• Address all flake8 issues. #1071
• Use pipenv for python dependency management. #1091
• Move unit tests to a dedicated tests/ directory to improve pytest collection time. #1102
• Skip BB performance tests by default. Run them if --run-performance-tests flag is specified.
• Write Zerologon exploiter's runtime artifacts to a secure temporary directory instead of $HOME. #1143
• Put environment config options in server_config.json into a separate section named "environment". #1161
• Automatically register if BlackBox tests are run on a fresh installation. #1180
• Limit the ports used for scanning in blackbox tests. #1368
• Limit the propagation depth of most blackbox tests. #1400
• Wait less time for monkeys to die when running BlackBox tests. #1400
• Improve the structure of unit tests by scoping fixtures only to relevant modules instead of having a one huge fixture file. #1178
• Improve and rename the directory structure of unit tests and unit test infrastructure. #1178
• Launch MongoDB when the Island starts via python. #1148
• Create/check data directory on Island initialization. #1170
• Format some log messages to make them more readable. #1283
• Improve runtime of some unit tests. #1125
• Run curl OR wget (not both) when attempting to communicate as a new user on Linux. #1407

Removed

• Relevant dead code as reported by Vulture. #1149
• Island logger config and --logger-config CLI option. #1151

Fixed

• Attempt to delete a directory when monkey config reset was called. #1054
• An errant space in the windows commands to run monkey manually. #1153
• Gevent tracebacks in console output. #859
• Crash and failure to run PBAs if max depth reached. #1374

Security

• Address minor issues discovered by Dlint. #1075
• Hash passwords on server-side instead of client side. #1139
• Generate random passwords when creating a new user (create user PBA, ms08_67 exploit). #1174
• Implemented configuration encryption/decryption. #1189, #1204
• Create local custom PBA directory with secure permissions. #1270
• Create encryption key file for MongoDB with secure permissions. #1232