Liberty·2:00 PM – 2:50 PM
Friday, December 11, 2026
Power Without Binaries: Bringing Native Offensive Techniques to Fileless Runtimes
Max Covey
Offense, exploitation & Windows internals
About this talk
What happens when native offensive tradecraft goes fileless? This talk pushes PowerShell beyond scripting, bringing WinAPI, NTAPI, direct and indirect syscalls, and process injection into a managed runtime. Through real-world successes, failures, and a working POC, this talk explores AMSI, CLR, AV/EDR visibility, and AI-assisted development revealing just how far PowerShell can go and what defenders can do to detect it.