BTR Reforged: Weaponizing Defender’s Remediation Driver as a Kernel Operation Primitive
Check Point shows attackers can abuse Microsoft Defender's signed remediation driver for arbitrary Ring 0 file and registry operations without exploiting any vulnerability.
Check Point Research presents BTR Reforged, a technique that repurposes Microsoft Defender's trusted remediation driver into an attacker-controlled kernel operation primitive. The signed driver can be instructed to execute arbitrary file and registry operations from Ring 0 without exploits, vulnerabilities, or memory corruption. The work demonstrates how trusted security components can be turned into attacker primitives, which is relevant for defenders assessing driver abuse risks.
- Turns Microsoft Defender's remediation driver into an attacker-controlled kernel primitive
- Executes arbitrary file and registry operations from Ring 0
- Requires no exploits, vulnerabilities, or memory corruption
- Raises defender concern about abuse of signed security drivers
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Research by: Jiří Vinopal (@vinopaljiri) Abstract What if a trusted security component could be repurposed into an attacker-controlled kernel primitive? What if a signed Microsoft remediation driver could be instructed to execute arbitrary file and registry operations from Ring 0 – without exploits, vulnerabilities, or memory corruption? In this publication, we present the first full […]
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