Down the Rabbit Hole: The Anatomy of Evasion
Blue teams buy new EDR every year. Off the shelf persistence burns in a week.
SHENRON is about writing tools that don’t want to be found, don’t want to be understood even by you after a month.
Forget the “add a cronjob” red team dogma. This is the age of mutation, polymorphism, artifact confusion, chain persistence, and anti forensic hustle.
Real Mutation: Every Run, a Different Beast
Most so called “polymorphic” tools change a few strings and call it a day.
SHENRON doesn’t just swap out comments or hash itself.
Every execution rewrites code, remixes plugins, and re-labels itself across the chain.
Seedbanks stash live copies after each run; every variant becomes a potential backup or a future resurrection.
Timelines get scrambled every “artifact” is a moving target, never the same twice.
Persistence isn’t just about staying on disk. It’s about erasing your own shadow.
Chains, Lanes, and False Leads
One lane is a death sentence.
Chains mean you always have at least two ways out and the hunt has to kill every one at once.
QR exfiltration, stego in PNGs, audio spectrograms with secrets in the waveform.
Artifacts renamed, hidden, split, or disguised as noise.
Dead drops planted in the digital mess some real, most pure distraction.
The chain mutates, forks, even throws “rogue mesh” events just to muddy your own understanding.
You want one version to analyze? Good luck.
Anti Forensics, Not Anti Detection
There’s no such thing as “undetectable” code.
SHENRON’s logic is to make forensics so painful, so ambiguous, so time wasting that the hunt itself burns out.
Polymorphic renaming: Every payload, every log, every auxiliary file gets a new name, new format, new location every cycle.
Decoy storm: Ten fakes for every real artifact. Let the analyst dig.
Chain splitters: Timeline logs get chopped, re-ordered, even stashed inside QR code payloads or the LSB of a PNG.
Automatic triggers: Hit a known sandbox or artifact sweep? Chain starts eating itself.
Why This? Why Keep Building?
Because the world isn’t ready for tools that can mutate their way out of a hunt, or survive in real blue team environments.
Every execution = a new test of what persistence even means.
One run: it’s a “malware.”
Ten runs: it’s an ecosystem, and even you can’t always keep track.
What’s next?
Even more modularity.
LLM driven adaptive chains, AI crafted anti forensics, new mesh protocols.
Real sandbox intelligence adapting not just to the hunt, but to the hunter.
............the tool isn’t the point. The mutation is.
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