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Hands-On Red Team Tactics

By : Himanshu Sharma, Harpreet Singh
Book Image

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)

Armitage and Cortana scripts

Cortana is a scripting language that is built into Armitage and Cobalt Strike. This is based on Sleep Scripting Language (http://sleep.dashnine.org/ ). We can find a lot of Cortana scripts built by different people on the internet. These scripts can be used to automate different tasks in Armitage. Running Cortana scripts is extremely easy. We will use the scripts hosted on GitHub by rsmudge, found here at https://github.com/rsmudge/cortana-scripts.

We then download the scripts on our computer and go to Armitage | Scripts... to run them:

In the window which opens, we choose Load and select the script we downloaded:

We will then try to run the icon script. This script identifies the services running and displays icons according to them:

Once the script is loaded, we then do the exploitation. When a new Meterpreter connection comes, this script will...