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Hands-On Red Team Tactics

By : Himanshu Sharma, Harpreet Singh
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Hands-On Red Team Tactics

By: Himanshu Sharma, Harpreet Singh

Overview of this book

Red Teaming is used to enhance security by performing simulated attacks on an organization in order to detect network and system vulnerabilities. Hands-On Red Team Tactics starts with an overview of pentesting and Red Teaming, before giving you an introduction to few of the latest pentesting tools. We will then move on to exploring Metasploit and getting to grips with Armitage. Once you have studied the fundamentals, you will learn how to use Cobalt Strike and how to set up its team server. The book introduces some common lesser known techniques for pivoting and how to pivot over SSH, before using Cobalt Strike to pivot. This comprehensive guide demonstrates advanced methods of post-exploitation using Cobalt Strike and introduces you to Command and Control (C2) servers and redirectors. All this will help you achieve persistence using beacons and data exfiltration, and will also give you the chance to run through the methodology to use Red Team activity tools such as Empire during a Red Team activity on Active Directory and Domain Controller. In addition to this, you will explore maintaining persistent access, staying untraceable, and getting reverse connections over different C2 covert channels. By the end of this book, you will have learned about advanced penetration testing tools, techniques to get reverse shells over encrypted channels, and processes for post-exploitation.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Chapter 13: Data Exfiltration

  1. Yes, there are alternative methods such as FTP, SSH, Gmail, Twitter, and so on. A lot of tools and PoC codes can be found on the internet for exfiltration of data. And, it's not totally undetectable, these techniques help you avoid detection to a certain level, but we should consider the fact that Blue team may also know about these tools and might be monitoring tool-specific channels for any activity.
  2. Frequency analysis is one of the known ciphertext attacks. This is based on the study of the frequency of letters or groups of letters in a ciphertext. Frequency analysis is used for breaking substitution ciphers. The general idea is to find the popular letters in the ciphertext and to try to replace them with the common letters in the used language.
  3. There are a lot of tools which are released every day for the same purpose, such as the Data Exfiltration...