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...

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...

Situational Awareness

A common step in the life-cycle of a red team engagement is to gather as much information is possible for the compromised environments and the domain network. This activity is often called situational awareness and there is no defined list of commands that a red teamer should execute. However all...

AggressorScripts - Collection Of Aggressor Scripts For Cobalt Strike 3.0+ Pulled From Multiple Sources

Collection of Aggressor scripts for Cobalt Strike 3.0+ pulled from multiple sources: AllInOne.cna v1 - Removed and outdated All purpose script to enhance the user's experience with cobaltstrike. Custom menu creation, Logging, Persistence, Enumeration, and 3rd party script integration. Version 2 i...

PDF – NTLM Hashes

Client side attacks are heavily used in red team engagements as they can allow the red team to execute arbitrary code or retrieve password hashes. Usually Microsoft office products are used to perform these kind of attacks however PDF documents can be also utilized for obtaining NTLM hashes of...

A PowerShell Toolkit for Attacking SQL Server: PowerUpSQL

The PowerUpSQL module includes functions that support SQL Server discovery, auditing for common weak configurations, and privilege escalation on scale. It is intended to be used during internal penetration tests and red team engagements. However, PowerUpSQL also includes many functions that could...

Lateral Movement – RDP

The Remote Desktop Protocol RDP is widely used across internal networks by Administrators. This allows systems owners and admins to manage Windows environments remotely. However RDP can give various opportunities to an attacker to conduct attacks that can be used for lateral movement in red team...

RTA (Red Team Arsenal) - An Intelligent Scanner To Detect Security Vulnerabilities In Companies Layer 7 Assets

Red Team Arsenal is a web/network security scanner which has the capability to scan all company's online facing assets and provide an holistic security view of any security anomalies. It's a closely linked collections of security engines to conduct/simulate attacks and monitor public facing asset...

List of Adversary Emulation Tools

PenTestIT RSS Feed Every once in a while, the security industry brings forth a new buzz word and introduces terminologies that sound über cool and generate lot's of interest. One such word going around now-a-days is automated "adversary emulation". Let's first understand what this really means...