Realistic Phishing with PowerShell and a Mail Relay

Introduction If you’re like me, you’ll recall the days of using telnet to connect to an SMTP Server on port 25 and issue the basic SMTP commands 1 (e.g. EHLO, MAIL FROM:, RCPT TO:, DATA). While I won’t miss accidentally mistyping a command, I will miss the simplicity. However, with the simplicity also came limitations, such as creating a realistic email that looks identical to an internal email communication. In comes PowerShell, and this is not new or groundbreaking, to make things both easy and realistic....

April 14, 2022 · 7 min · ch0pper