UPDATE: MITRE CALDERA 2.3.0

PenTestIT RSS Feed A month ago, MITRE Caldera 2.2.0 was released and a couple of days back now MITRE CALDERA 2.3.0 was released as well. If you remember, I wrote briefly about this automated adversary emulation system in my post titled – List of Adversary Emulation Tools. A lot of changes have be...

Covenant - A .NET Command And Control Framework For Red Teamers

Covenant is a .NET command and control framework that aims to highlight the attack surface of .NET, make the use of offensive .NET tradecraft easier, and serve as a collaborative command and control platform for red teamers. Covenant is an ASP.NET Core, cross-platform application that includes a...

AbsoluteZero - Python APT Backdoor

This project is a Python APT backdoor, optimized for Red Team Post Exploitation Tool, it can generate binary payload or pure python source. The final stub uses polymorphic encryption to give a first obfuscation layer to itself. Deployment AbsoluteZero is a complete software written in Python 2.7...

Four Steps to Becoming a Threat Hunter

Roles in cybersecurity have evolved to now include the title of “Threat Hunter”. It sounds cool, but I’m sure many of you are wondering what it really means and how it is different from the job you’ve been doing. Up until now, most of us have performed a job more akin to “Threat Wrangler”. Once...

Shr3dKit

This is an offensive tool for Red Team operations. The tool kit, named Shr3dKit, is a collection of scripts and tools for various stages of a Red Team engagement, including reconnaissance, weaponization, delivery, command and control, lateral movement, establishing a foothold, escalating...

Flerken - Obfuscated Command Detection Tool

Command line obfuscation has been proved to be a non-negligible factor in fileless malware or malicious actors that are "living off the land". To bypass signature-based detection, dedicated obfuscation techniques are shown to be used by red-team penetrations and even APT activities. Meanwhile,...

Finding Weaknesses Before the Attackers Do

This blog post originally appeared as an article in M-Trends 2019. FireEye Mandiant red team consultants perform objectives-based assessments that emulate real cyber attacks by advanced and nation state attackers across the entire attack lifecycle by blending into environments and observing how...

Commando VM: The First of Its Kind Windows Offensive Distribution

For penetration testers looking for a stable and supported Linux testing platform, the industry agrees that Kali is the go-to platform. However, if you’d prefer to use Windows as an operating system, you may have noticed that a worthy platform didn’t exist. As security researchers, every one of u...

Mature Your Threat Hunting by Testing Your Visibility

Threat hunting starts with a hypothesis. Without a hypothesis, you’re just combing through log files - and that isn’t threat hunting. Once you have a hypothesis, you can begin your search, but you won’t always find a hacker. Testing, like the open source tests available from Red Canary’s Atomic R...

LOLBAS - Living Off The Land Binaries And Scripts (LOLBins And LOLScripts)

The goal of the LOLBAS project is to document every binary, script, and library that can be used for Living Off The Land techniques. All the different files can be found behind a fancy frontend here: https://lolbas-project.github.io thanks @ConsciousHacker for this bit of eyecandy and the team ov...

Domain Hunter - Checks Expired Domains For Categorization/Reputation And Archive.org History To Determine Good Candidates For Phishing And C2 Domain Names

Domain name selection is an important aspect of preparation for penetration tests and especially Red Team engagements. Commonly, domains that were used previously for benign purposes and were properly categorized can be purchased for only a few dollars. Such domains can allow a team to bypass...

Sheepl - Creating Realistic User Behaviour For Supporting Tradecraft Development Within Lab Environments

Sheepl : Creating realistic user behaviour for supporting tradecraft development within lab environments Introduction There are lots of resources available online relating to how you can build AD network environments for the development of blue team and red team tradecraft. However the current...

Beers with Talos Ep. #41: Sex, money and malware

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast Ep. 41 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. Ep. 41 show notes: Recorded Nov. 9, 2018 — We tried to make this episode last week, but thanks to some technical difficulties, we...

The AWS Exploitation Framework: Pacu

Pacu is an open source AWS exploitation framework, designed for offensive security testing against cloud environments. Created and maintained by Rhino Security Labs, Pacu allows penetration testers to exploit configuration flaws within an AWS account, using modules to easily expand its...

SharpSploit - A .NET Post-Exploitation Library Written In C#

SharpSploit is a .NET post-exploitation library written in C that aims to highlight the attack surface of .NET and make the use of offensive .NET easier for red teamers. SharpSploit is named, in part, as a homage to the PowerSploit project, a personal favorite of mine! While SharpSploit does port...

Free Facial Recognition Tool Can Track People Across Social Media Sites

Security researchers at Trustwave have released a new open-source tool that uses facial recognition technology to locate targets across numerous social media networks on a large scale. Dubbed Social Mapper, the facial recognition tool automatically searches for targets across eight social media...

Remote Desktop Caching - Tool To Recover Old RDP (mstsc) Session Information In The Form Of Broken PNG Files

This tool allows one to recover old RDP mstsc session information in the form of broken PNG files. These PNG files allows Red Team member to extract juicy information such as LAPS passwords or any sensitive information on the screen. Blue Team member can reconstruct PNG files to see what an...

The Rogue Toolkit - An Extensible Toolkit Aimed At Providing Penetration Testers An Easy-To-Use Platform To Deploy Access Points

The Rogue Toolkit is an extensible toolkit aimed at providing penetration testers an easy-to-use platform to deploy software-defined Access Points AP for the purpose of conducting penetration testing and red team engagements. By using Rogue, penetration testers can easily perform targeted evil tw...

Bring Your Own Land (BYOL) – A Novel Red Teaming Technique

Introduction One of most significant recent developments in sophisticated offensive operations is the use of “Living off the Land” LotL techniques by attackers. These techniques leverage legitimate tools present on the system, such as the PowerShell scripting language, in order to execute attacks...

PowerShell: In-Memory Injection Using CertUtil.exe

Have you ever heard the old saying," The only constant in life is change?" Nothing is truer in the world of penetration testing and information security than the certainty of change. New defenses are always emerging, and the guys and gals in the red team game are always having to evolve our effor...