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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)

Getting into a Domain Controller using Empire

Most of the time, we get access to a web server with system privileges. When we try to get access to the Domain Controller, however, this just doesn't work. One of the reasons for this is the lack of knowledge related to Domain Controllers. For those who are learning about privilege escalation and pivoting, you are about to enter the world of lateral movement and Domain exploitation. Make sure that you are familiar with some basic concepts related to Domains and Domain Controllers. Start from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_controller and move on to other topics related to the Domain Controller before continuing with this topic.

Assuming that you have some basic understanding of Domains, Domain Controllers, and Active Directory Domain Services (AD/DS), let's continue with the Active Directory exploitation. You should...