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PowerShell Automation and Scripting for Cybersecurity

By : Miriam C. Wiesner
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Book Image

PowerShell Automation and Scripting for Cybersecurity

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By: Miriam C. Wiesner

Overview of this book

Take your cybersecurity skills to the next level with this comprehensive guide to PowerShell security! Whether you’re a red or blue teamer, you’ll gain a deep understanding of PowerShell’s security capabilities and how to use them. After revisiting PowerShell basics and scripting fundamentals, you’ll dive into PowerShell Remoting and remote management technologies. You’ll learn how to configure and analyze Windows event logs and understand the most important event logs and IDs to monitor your environment. You’ll dig deeper into PowerShell’s capabilities to interact with the underlying system, Active Directory and Azure AD. Additionally, you’ll explore Windows internals including APIs and WMI, and how to run PowerShell without powershell.exe. You’ll uncover authentication protocols, enumeration, credential theft, and exploitation, to help mitigate risks in your environment, along with a red and blue team cookbook for day-to-day security tasks. Finally, you’ll delve into mitigations, including Just Enough Administration, AMSI, application control, and code signing, with a focus on configuration, risks, exploitation, bypasses, and best practices. By the end of this book, you’ll have a deep understanding of how to employ PowerShell from both a red and blue team perspective.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Part 1: PowerShell Fundamentals
6
Part 2: Digging Deeper – Identities, System Access, and Day-to-Day Security Tasks
12
Part 3: Securing PowerShell – Effective Mitigations In Detail

Red team cookbook

In this section, you will find some handy code snippets for your red team engagement. Please also refer to Chapter 9, Blue Team Tasks and Cookbook, as you will find many blue teamer code snippets and scripts there. These can sometimes also be useful for a red teamer.

Please note that this cookbook is not a complete red team reference as this would fill an entire book. Rather, it intends to be a helpful source to help you get started with PowerShell-related red teaming.

To make it easier to understand for people starting in cybersecurity, this cookbook has been categorized into MITRE ATT&CK areas. Please note that you will not find all the MITRE ATT&CK areas in this cookbook.

You can find the full MITRE ATT&CK enterprise matrix on the official MITRE web page: https://attack.mitre.org/matrices/enterprise/.

Reconnaissance

Usually, every attack starts with reconnaissance, the initial phase in which an adversary gathers information about a target...