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• Release v1.7 - Pandemonium

  Release July 27, 2023

  Brute Ratel v1.7 [codename Pandemonium] is now available for download. This release is an entire overhaul of the Badger, Ratel Server and Commander to provide support for Yara evasions and Apple Silicon. Customers using v1.6 release should note that the Badger, Ratel server and Commander of v1.6 will not support v1.7. Do not upgrade to this release if you are in an active engagement. Operators should read this blog or the release notes section to understand the changes before upgrading. A quick summary of changes can be found in the release notes.

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• Release v1.6 - Reboot

  Release May 30, 2023

  Brute Ratel v1.6 codename Reboot is now available for download. This release brings in several updates to existing evasion techniques, support for Windows Commander, Hi-DPI scaling and various heavy user experience updates (QOL) requested by the BRc4 community. A quick summary of the changes can be found in the release notes.

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• Release v1.5 (Nightmare) - Ghosts From The Past

  Release March 19, 2023

  Brute Ratel v1.5 codename Nightmare is now available for download. This release brings in new evasion techniques and user experience updates (QOL) requested by the BRc4 community. A quick summary of the changes can be found in the release notes. This release also brings several changes to the licensing server which now provides support for backward compatibility. More on this at the end of the blog.

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• Release v1.4 (Blitzkrieg) - Reflection In a Nut Shell

  Release January 04, 2023

  Brute Ratel v1.4 codename Blitzkrieg is now available for download. This release brings in a few new features, updates to EtwTI evasion techniques, and user experience (QOL) requested by the BRc4 community. A quick summary of the changes can be found in the release notes.

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• Release v1.3 (Resurgence) - No Strings Attached

  Release November 17, 2022

  Brute Ratel v1.3 codename Resurgence is now available for download. This release brings in various changes to evasion techniques, improvements to Badger, user experience (QOL) and several features requested by the BRc4 community. Since this is a major release, I’ve divided the blog into various segments which can be directly accessed with the links below. A quick summary of the changes can be found in the release notes.

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• Evasion Updates v1.2.3 - Scandinavian Defense

  Release August 28, 2022

  This release is a minor update under v1.2.3 release tag towards the core of the badger along with some bug fixes, UI overhaul and improvements to the QOL of the badger/server and the UI. Most of the previous releases were focused on adding evasions to the badger. However, one of the important things that was left out was updates to the UI. This update brings in various changes to the UI along with a Material theme. The below images showcase the updates made to the user interface. Along with the UI updates, the user interface now also allows to spawn a standalone instance of the badger’s terminal from the UI detached from the main GUI. A quick summary of the changes can be found in the release notes.

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• Release v1.2 - Scandinavian Defense - Evading Every EDR On The Planet

  Release August 18, 2022

  Brute Ratel v1.2 codename Scandinavian Defense is now available for download. The main highlight of this release is memory evasion and support for bringing in your own injection techniques via COFF. This release brings major improvements to the badger’s core, both staged and stageless thereby avoiding every EDR trap in memory. This release was tested against 17 different EDRs and Antiviruses prior to the release to detect and bypass all possible traps into memory. There are several major changes made to the sleep masking and dot net evasion techniques following the detection blog from MdSec on suspicious stack threads and dotnet execution detections. A quick summary of the changes can be found in the release notes. The below image shows some of the top tier EDRs which were tested against these techniques and evaded successfully in their highest prevention mode.

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• Release v1.1 - Stoffel's Escape

  Release July 20, 2022

  Brute Ratel v1.1 codename Stoffel’s Escape is now available for download. This release brings several new feature additions and improvements to the Badger, Ratel Server and Commander, including a complete re-write of the badger’s core to avoid some subtle detection techniques following the Palo Alto blog. A quick summary of the changes can be found in the release notes. The release name (Stoffel’s Escape) gives subtle hints foreshadowing the nature of this release. This release could not have been better without the support from the blue team community. As BRc4 initially started as a personal project two years back, there were still some remnants of IOCs that needed to be changed. Palo Alto’s reversing blog came in as a surprise, but it only helped to rebuild the payload and optimize it in a certain way to avoid as many IOCs as possible. This release was focused to overcome all the IOCs listed in public or private blogs, conferences and github detections, till date, about Badger and change them to avoid attribution and detection.

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• Release v1.0 - Sicilian Defense

  Release May 17, 2022

  Brute Ratel v1.0 codename Sicilian Defense is now available for download. This release brings several new feature additions and improvements to the Badger and Commander. The release is focused towards the Egress comms of the badger. There will be a follow up blog, post the release which will showcase the external C2 capabilities. A quick summary of the changes can be found in the release notes.

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• Release v0.9 - Checkmate

  Release January 24, 2022

  Brute Ratel v0.9.0 (Checkmate) is biggest release for Brute Ratel till date. This release brings major changes to the Brute Ratel’s loader, reflective DLL, shellcode and the internal APIs being called. As detailed in the previous version, where several syscall injection techniques were added for evasion, but they were limited to the reflective DLL’s loader of BRc4 and the VEH (Vectored Exception Handler) API of Windows. This version uses an updated version of Syscalls for almost everything except a few of those which I was pretty sure would never be hooked since they are too noisy. This release was built after reverse engineering several top tier EDR and Antivirus DLLs. A quick summary of the changes can be found in the release notes.

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