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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)

Empire post exploitation for OSX

Next in line is the post exploitation of macOS using Empire. There are some cool modules for OS X, and to see their magic, let's first get our stager ready. For stager creation, we can either choose the default launcher multi/launcher or the OSX launcher osx/launcher. The only difference between these two launchers is their available options. Unlike multi launcher, OSX launcher doesn't have proxy and obfuscation support. Let's execute the following command in order to use OSX launcher:

usestager osx/launcher 
info 

Let's add the listener using the set Listener Empire command:

A Python one-liner command will be generated, and once this one-liner is executed on the target server, we'll get the agent connection:

Now let's confirm the agent:

Now that we have the agent, let's interact with the agent and execute...