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Registry-Stored Payloads for USB Rubber Duckies

Lim Jing Qiang

Lim Jing Qiang examines using the rubber ducky to deploy a large payload in an air-gapped environment is no easy feat.

Summary

Architecture and Background

Lim Jing Qiang present 'Registry-Stored Payloads for USB Rubber Duckies' at DEF CON SG1 CSIT Village, detailing technical frameworks, attack surfaces, and core methodologies in rubber-ducky, usb-attacks, payload-delivery, air-gap.

Vulnerability Analysis

The technical analysis dissects structural design flaws, protocol vulnerabilities, and edge cases uncovered during rigorous research.

Exploitation and Demonstrations

Using the rubber ducky to deploy a large payload in an air-gapped environment is no easy feat. This talk introduces a way of leveraging USB descriptors to store large payload in the Windows Registry and retrieving it through keystroke injection.

Remediation and Defensive Strategies

Security practitioners and defenders receive actionable defensive controls, hardened configurations, and threat detection strategies to mitigate impact.

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