Backdooring Azure Automation Account Packages and Runtime Environments

Karl Fosaaen starts an Azure Automation series, showing how runbook permissions allow attackers to export RunAs certificates and credentials for maintaining privileged access to Azure subscriptions.

Azure pentesting technique: abuse the Desired State Configuration (DSC) VM extension to run arbitrary commands with built-in recurrence, giving Contributor-role attackers stealthy persistence.

NetSPI shows how attackers can persist in Azure after privilege escalation using Automation Accounts, privileged runbooks, and webhook triggers that restore Owner access with a single POST request.

Karl Fosaaen shows how Azure Contributor rights enable VM command execution as SYSTEM via Invoke-AzureRmVMRunCommand without opening firewall ports, scaling PowerShell across subscription VMs.

Karl Fosaaen releases a script for anonymous Azure service enumeration, brute forcing DNS across azurewebsites.net, cloudapp.net, and blob.core.windows.net to map a target's public Azure footprint.

Karl Fosaaen introduces Get-AzurePasswords, a MicroBurst script that automates credential dumping from Azure Key Vaults, App Services configurations, and Automation Accounts via Azure PowerShell.