psk-crack (ike-scan) CUDA add-on
UPDATE: Thinks are moving well on Hashcat.net ! https://hashcat.net/trac/ticket/5
Hello,
If you are familiar with ike-scan and you hold NVidia card(s), you could be interested by cracking Pre-Shared Keys with your GPU(s).
As it is my first CUDA/GPU implementation and that I have limited knowledge of cryptography, this code must not be considered as optimized. Technically, I only reused basic source codes of MD5 and SHA-1 inside a CUDA code. Don’t blame me. I was working on a pentest and I thought : “Cracking this PSK could be nice for my report, let’s do ‘man cuda’ .. ”
To give you an idea of the improvement, brute-forcing the PSK “hello1“requires about:
- 2 hours and 50 minutes with CPU (HP EliteBook 8440p - 2.5GHz Intel Core 5)
- 2 minutes and 40 seconds with GPUs (GTX480 + GTX570)
It’s not that bad for a first try, even if the occupancy rate of the cards is low.
Simple shellcode obfuscation
1. Introduction
This article aims to provide you with the different steps needed to develop shellcode obfuscation techniques, and their respective deobfuscator assembly stubs. This should help you to learn a bit more about IDS and Anti-Virus evasion techniques, and more than that, to give you a useful template to create more advanced obfuscations stuffs.
Don’t be confused, we are not talking about shellcode “encoders” since we do neither modify the opcodes nor remove any bad characters. We will just hide the shellcode and – hopefully – break common shellcode patterns. It means that your initial shellcode must already be NULL free or some.
While obfuscating (or encoding) a shellcode with your own method will not help you to bypass all anti-virus software (thanks to sandbox-based AV), it is a useful step to achieve it (but this discussion is out of scope for the moment).
There are 3 main parts in this development:
- Obfuscate the Shellcode with a Perl script (or any other language). The result will print a shellcode in C syntax.
- Write the assembly stub, able to reverse the shellcode in its initial state, and start it.
- Tune the stub to make it reusable and put everything together.

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