Scott Sutherland
Scott is currently responsible for the development, and execution of network penetration testing at NetSPI. His role includes researching and developing tools, techniques, and methodologies used during network and application penetration tests. Scott has been providing IT security services to medium sized to Fortune 50 companies for over 10 years. As an active participant in the information security community, Scott also contributes technical security blog posts, whitepapers, and presentations on a regular basis through NetSPI. Published presentations can be found here. Scott's most recent project is PowerUpSQL.
June 27th, 2018
Bypassing SQL Server Logon Trigger Restrictions
This shows how to bypass SQL Server logon trigger restrictions by spoofing hostnames and application names using lesser known connection string properties.
June 12th, 2018
Prioritizing the Remediation of Mitre ATT&CK Framework Gaps
In this blog I’ll share a few tips for prioritizing the remediation of detective control gaps related to the Mitre ATT&CK Framework.
May 25th, 2018
Databases and Clouds: SQL Server as a C2
This blog will provide an overview of how to create and maintain access to an environment using SQL Server as the controller and the agent using a new PoC script called SQLC2.
May 8th, 2018
Attacking Application Specific SQL Server Instances
This blog walks through how to quickly identify SQL Server instances used by 3rd party applications that are configured with default passwords using PowerUpSQL.
July 13th, 2017
Attacking SQL Server CLR Assemblies
In this blog, I’ll be expanding on the CLR assembly attacks developed by Lee Christensen and covered in Nathan Kirk’s CLR blog series. I’ll review how to create, import, export, and modify CLR assemblies in SQL Server with the goal of privilege escalation, OS command execution, and persistence. I’ll also share a few new PowerUpSQL […]
May 23rd, 2017
How to get SQL Server Sysadmin Privileges as a Local Admin with PowerUpSQL
In this blog I outline common techniques that can be used to leverage the SQL Server service account to escalate privileges from a local administrator to a SQL Server sysadmin (DBA).
October 11th, 2016
Common Red Team Techniques vs Blue Team Controls Infographic
In this blog, I’ll share an infographic that illustrates some common red team attack workflows and blue team controls. I’ll also include some basic red & blue team tips.
August 5th, 2016
Establishing Registry Persistence via SQL Server with PowerUpSQL
In this blog I’ll show how to use PowerUpSQL to establish persistence (backdoor) via the Windows registry through SQL Server. I’ll also provide a brief overview of the xp_regwrite stored procedure. This should be interesting to pentesters and red teamers interested in some alternative ways to access the OS through SQL Server. An overview of […]
August 4th, 2016
Get Windows Auto Login Passwords via SQL Server with PowerUpSQL
In this blog I’ll show how to use PowerUpSQL to dump Windows auto login passwords through SQL Server via xp_regread.