KnockOutlook – A Little Tool To Play With Outlook
“The best feeling is to win by knockout.” – Nonito Donaire
Overview
KnockOutlook is a C# project that interacts with Outlook’s COM object in order to perform a number of operations useful in red team engagements.
Command Line Usage
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Parameters:
--operation : specify the operation to run
--keyword : specify a keyword for the 'search' operation
--id : specify an EntryID for the 'save' operation
--bypass : bypass the Programmatic Access Security settings (requires admin)
Operations:
check : perform a number of checks to ensure operational security
contacts : extract all contacts of every account
mails : extract mailbox metadata of every account
search : search for the provided keyword in every mailbox
save : save a specified mail by its EntryID
Examples:
KnockOutlook.exe --operation check
KnockOutlook.exe --operation contacts
KnockOutlook.exe --operation mails --bypass
KnockOutlook.exe --operation search --keyword password
KnockOutlook.exe --operation save --id {EntryID} --bypass
Operations
-
check
Enumerates the Outlook installation details in order to construct the correct registry key and retrieve the Programmatic Access Security setting.
If this value is set to
Warn when antivirus is inactive or out-of-date
it queries WMI for any installed antivirus products and parses their current state. -
contacts
Enumerates the contacts of every configured account and extracts the following information:
- Full Name
- Email Address
-
mails
Enumerates the mails of every configured account and extracts the following metadata:
- ID
- Timestamp
- Subject
- From
- To
- Attachments
-
search
Searches inside the mailbox of every configured account using Outlook’s built-in search engine and returns the
EntryID
of mails that contain the provided keyword in their body. -
save
Uses Outlook’s built-in
Save As
mechanism to export a mail referenced by itsEntryID
.
Object Model Guard Bypass
The --bypass
switch can be used in conjunction with contacts
, mails
, search
and save
operations given the fact that the current process is running with high integrity level.
It will attempt to snapshot the current security policy of Outlook, patch it in a way that the Programmatic Access Security prompt is auto-allowed and finally revert it to its initial state after the operation has finished.
Output
All operations will output basic information on screen.
The contacts
and mails
operations will output results in JSON format to a Gzip compressed file.
The save
operation will export the requested mail in .MSG
format.
All filenames are randomly generated during runtime.
By default, Outlook’s Secure Temp Folder is used as a destination for all exported files.
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