## Code Signing Certificate Cloning Attack A Powershell script that signs input Executable file with fake Microsoft code-signing certificate to demonstrate risks of cloned-certificate sign attacks. Script was shamelessly borrowed from [Matt Graeber, @mattifestation](https://twitter.com/mattifestation) and his research titled: - [_Code Signing Certificate Cloning Attacks and Defenses_](https://posts.specterops.io/code-signing-certificate-cloning-attacks-and-defenses-6f98657fc6ec) **All credits go to Matt** - this directory contains a copy of his code (_a little tweaked by me_) for preserverance purposes. ### Effectiveness As of [13/07/2022](https://twitter.com/mariuszbit/status/1547320418821980160) this **dumb trick** still gets off the shelf malware evade detection of at least 8 modern security scanners. | What | Result | |------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------| | Mythic Apollo.exe before fake-signing | [30/70](https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/1413de7cee2c7c161f814fe93256968450b4e99ae65f0b5e7c2e76128526cc73?nocache=1) | | Mythic Apollo.exe after fake-signing with Microsoft code-signing certificate | [22/70](https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/34543de8a6b24c98ea526d8f2ae5f1dbe99d64386d8a8f46ddbcdcebaac3df65?nocache=1) | ### Usage ``` PS C:\> . .\Sign-Artifact.ps1 PS C:\> Sign-Artifact -InputFile malware.exe -OutputFile nomalware.exe -Verbose ```