UPDATE: APfell 1.4

APfell 1.4 was released a few hours ago! If you remember, I briefly mentioned about this tool in my seven month old post titled – List of Open Source C2 Post-Exploitation Frameworks. When this project started out, it was targeted more at MacOS alone. But what excites me about this newer release i...

Invoke-APT29: Adversarial Threat Emulation

MITRE recently conducted its second ATT&CK exercise in their ongoing annual series of Endpoint Security Efficacy testing and evaluation. This test focuses on assessing the behavioral capabilities of multiple endpoint security vendors against a simulated adversary, based closely around...

Persistence – WMI Event Subscription

Windows Management Instrumentation WMI enables system administrators to perform tasks locally and remotely. From the perspective of red teaming WMI can be used to perform… Continue reading - Persistence - WMI Event Subscription...

CISO Forum 2019: Vulnerability Management, Red Teaming and a career in Information Security abroad

Today, at the very end of 2019, I want to write about the event I attended in April. Sorry for the delay . This doesn't mean that CISO Forum 2019 was not Interesting or I had nothing to share. Not at all! In fact, it was the most inspiring event of the year, and I wanted to make a truly monumenta...

7 Tips for Maximizing Your SOC

It takes a special sort of person to be a security analyst. The person must be detail-oriented, curious, intelligent and hard-working, and with a quick reaction time as constant attacks unfold. These analysts have deep expertise that they use during their long shifts to sort through what’s worth...

PoshC2 - C2 Server and Implants

PoshC2 is a proxy aware C2 framework that utilises Powershell and/or equivalent System.Management.Automation.dll to aid penetration testers with red teaming, post-exploitation and lateral movement. Powershell was chosen as the base implant language as it provides all of the functionality and rich...

List of Open Source C2 Post-Exploitation Frameworks

PenTestIT RSS Feed This post has been lying in my drafts for more than a year with edits all over. But two days ago, it was announced that Powershell Empire would no longer be supported by it's authors. Hence just like I curated a list of adversary emulation tools, I finalized this list of open...

Ninja Turtles in your network: LAN Turtle 3G. A how-to for red teaming

Introduction This post will detail how to configure and utilise a LAN turtle 3G from Hak 5 to gain a persistent, remotely accessible presence within a network. With ethernet ports becoming less common on new hardware, many people have been forced into deploying an array of various dongles and...

P4wnP1 A.L.O.A. - Framework Which Turns A Rapsberry Pi Zero W Into A Flexible, Low-Cost Platform For Pentesting, Red Teaming And Physical Engagements

P4wnP1 A.L.O.A. by MaMe82 is a framework which turns a Rapsberry Pi Zero W into a flexible, low-cost platform for pentesting, red teaming and physical engagements ... or into "A Little Offensive Appliance". 0. How to install The latest image could be found under release tab. The easiest way to...

GodOfWar - Malicious Java WAR Builder With Built-In Payloads

A command-line tool to generate war payloads for penetration testing / red teaming purposes, written in ruby. Features Preexisting payloads. try -l/--list cmdget filebrowser bindshell reverseshell reverseshellui Configurable backdoor. try --host/-port Control over payload name. To avoid malicious...

Commando VM - The First of Its Kind Windows Offensive Distribution

Welcome to CommandoVM - a fully customized, Windows-based security distribution for penetration testing and red teaming. Installation Install Script Requirements Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or Windows 10 60 GB Hard Drive 2 GB RAM Instructions 1. Create and configure a new Windows Virtual Machine...

Commando VM — Turn Your Windows Computer Into A Hacking Machine

FireEye today released Commando VM , which according to the company, is a "first of its kind Windows-based security distribution for penetration testing and red teaming." When it comes to the best-operating systems for hackers, Kali Linux is always the first choice for penetration testers and...

Commando VM — Turn Your Windows Computer Into A Hacking Machine

FireEye today released Commando VM, which according to the company, is a "first of its kind Windows-based security distribution for penetration testing and red teaming." When it comes to the best-operating systems for hackers, Kali Linux is always the first choice for penetration testers and...

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...

Apfell - A macOS, Post-Exploit, Red Teaming Framework

A macOS, post-exploit, red teaming framework built with python3 and JavaScript. It's designed to provide a collaborative and user friendly interface for operators, managers, and reporting throughout mac and linux based red teaming. Details Check out thre blog post on the initial release of the...

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...

M-Trends 2018

What have incident responders observed and learned from cyber attacks in 2017? Just as in prior years, we have continued to see the cyber security threat landscape evolve. Over the past twelve months we have observed a number of new trends and changes to attacks, but we have also seen how certain...

Information Security Preparedness Tool: Metta

Metta is an open-source information security preparedness tool for adversarial simulation. As an emerging concept, the industry has yet to settle on a definitive definition of adversarial simulation, but it involves simulating components of targeted attacks in order to test both an organization’s...

UPDATE: WarBerryPi Version 5.1b!

PenTestIT RSS Feed My last post pertaining to this Red Teaming Hardware Implant was about an updated version. This post also covers the changes made to two versions since my last post about the WarBerryPi v5. We now have an updated release for the Raspberry Pi based hardware implant allowing you ...

Proxy Aware PowerShell C2 Framework: PoshC2

PoshC2 is a proxy aware C2 framework written completely in PowerShell to aid penetration testers with red teaming, post-exploitation and lateral movement. The tools and modules were developed off the back of our successful PowerShell sessions and payload types for the Metasploit Framework...