Gargamel

Compile

Compiled and tested with Rust 1.50+. Open terminal in the project directory and to compile a release build type

cargo build --release

Debug build can be compiled using

cargo build

Compiled executable is located at target/release/gargamel.exe or target/debug/gargamel.exe, respectively.

Set log level

If you wish to change the logging level:

• Open src/main.rs
• On lines 42 and 43 change LevelFilter::Info to (for example) LevelFilter::Trace for more detailed logging.
  • Beware that the LevelFilter::Trace will log everything including passwords.

User guide

Right now, this app works only on Windows and the target computer must use Windows or Linux.

Make sure to have the following programs in the same directory as Gargamel.

• psexec, download
• paexec, an open source alternative to PsExec, download
• winpmem, an open source memory image tool, download.
  • Download the newest executable and rename it to winpmem.exe
• plink and pscp, an open source CLI SSH/SCP clients, download
• SharpRDP, an open source command executor using RDP, download
• WMImplant, as open source PowerShell WMI command executor, download
• 7za.exe, a standalone console version of 7zip archiver, download

Note: We need both the psexec and paexec. Although both applications are supposed to be functionally equivalent they actually both have different behavior under some circumstances.

Unleashing the power of Gargamel

Gargamel needs to be launched from an elevated terminal to be fully functional. Currently it does not support the UAC dialog nor any kind of notification when running with limited privileges. When running with limited user privileges, then some operations like target memory dumping will not work.

Basic example

Assume you want to connect to a computer with the following parameters:

• address 192.168.42.47
• username Jano
• password nbusr123

The following command will acquire firewall state, network state, logged users, running processes, active network connections, registry, system & application event logs using PsExec method. Evidence will be stored in the testResults directory relative to the location of Gargamel.

gargamel.exe -c 192.168.42.47 -u Jano --psexec -o testResults

Gargamel will ask you for password of the remote user, in our example the password is nbusr123. Note that password will be hidden when typing.

It is also possible to specify the password directly as program argument.

gargamel.exe -c 192.168.42.47 -u Jano --psexec -p nbusr123 -o testResults

Domain example

Assume you want to connect to a computer in a domain with the following parameters:

• domain WORKSPACE
• computer name JanovPC
• username Jano
• password nbusr123

The following command will acquire firewall state, network state, logged users, running processes, active network connections, registry, system & application event logs using PsExec method.

gargamel.exe -c JanovPC -u Jano -d WORKSPACE --psexec -o testResults

Or to skip password prompting specify the password directly.

gargamel.exe -c JanovPC -u Jano -d WORKSPACE --psexec -p nbusr123 -o testResults

Other connection methods

PsExec is one of the 5 supported connection methods. You can replace the --psexec with the following options:

• --psexec
• --psrem, if PowerShell remoting is configured on the target machine.
• --rdp, if RDP is enabled on the target machine.
• --wmi.
• --ssh, if the target machine uses Linux.

It is possible to use several methods at once. For example to use both PsExec and RDP one can use the following command.

gargamel.exe -c 192.168.42.47 -u Jano --psexec --rdp -o testResults

There is also a special switch --all that is equal to specifying --psexec --rdp --psrem --wmi.

Note: Launch parameters are order-agnostic, i.e. it does not matter in which order the parameters are specified.

Acquire memory

To acquire also memory dump, then simply add the -m flag to the program parameters, i.e.

gargamel.exe -c 192.168.42.47 -u Jano --psexec -o testResults -m

If you wish to acquire ONLY the memory dump without other evidence then use the following command.

gargamel.exe -c 192.168.42.47 -u Jano --psexec -o testResults -m --no-events-search --no-evidence-search --no-registry-search                                                          

This functionality is available only for Windows targets.

Run custom commands

Gargamel may run custom Windows CMD or Linux shell commands on remote machine.

First create a file custom-commands.txt with the following content.

# Will be run using any method
ipconfig
# Will run only when launching with at least one of --all, --psexec, --wmi methods
:psexec:wmi ipconfig -all

Results of the above commands will be stored in the directory specified by -o option.

To run the above commands written in custom-commands.txt use the -e switch, i.e.

gargamel.exe -c 192.168.42.47 -u Jano --psexec -o testResults -e custom-commands.txt                                                           

Download custom files

Gargamel is able to download remote files.

First create a file custom-files.txt with the following content.

C:\Users\Public\sss*
C:\Users\Jano\danove.pdf 
# This line and the next one will be ignored
# C:\Users\Jano\somBajecny.pptx  

Note: Wildcards * and ? are supported but currently only in filenames, not parent directories, i.e. C:\Users\J*\danove.pdf will most likely not work.

Results of the above commands will be stored in the directory specified by -o option.

To run the above commands written in custom-files.txt use the -s switch, i.e.

gargamel.exe -c 192.168.42.47 -u Jano --psexec -o testResults -s custom-files.txt                                                           

All options

All supported switches are described below.

USAGE:
    gargamel.exe [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] --user <user>