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Cybersecurity Attacks – Red Team Strategies

You're reading from  Cybersecurity Attacks ‚Äì Red Team Strategies

Product type Book
Published in Mar 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838828868
Pages 524 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Johann Rehberger Johann Rehberger
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Johann Rehberger has over fifteen years of experience in threat analysis, threat modeling, risk management, penetration testing, and red teaming. As part of his many years at Microsoft, Johann established a penetration test team in Azure Data and led the program as Principal Security Engineering Manager. Recently, he built out a red team at Uber and currently works as an independent security and software engineer. Johann is well versed in analysis, design, implementation, and testing of software systems. Additionally, he enjoys providing training and was an instructor for ethical hacking at the University of Washington. Johann contributed to the MITRE ATT&CK framework and holds a master's in computer security from the University of Liverpool.
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Embracing the Red
2. Chapter 1: Establishing an Offensive Security Program 3. Chapter 2: Managing an Offensive Security Team 4. Chapter 3: Measuring an Offensive Security Program 5. Chapter 4: Progressive Red Teaming Operations 6. Section 2: Tactics and Techniques
7. Chapter 5: Situational Awareness – Mapping Out the Homefield Using Graph Databases 8. Chapter 6: Building a Comprehensive Knowledge Graph 9. Chapter 7: Hunting for Credentials 10. Chapter 8: Advanced Credential Hunting 11. Chapter 9: Powerful Automation 12. Chapter 10: Protecting the Pen Tester 13. Chapter 11: Traps, Deceptions, and Honeypots 14. Chapter 12: Blue Team Tactics for the Red Team 15. Assessments 16. Another Book You May Enjoy

Understanding COM automation on Windows

Since learning about Windows in the late 90s, I have been fascinated by the automation and binary sharing technologies that Microsoft has created. At onepoint, ActiveX was a powerful piece of technology – although it wasn't so great for security.

The technology that enables these scenarios is called COM. It's a binary interoperability technology. You can write code in C++ and the exposed functionality can then be invoked by any other technology or scripting language that supports COM. This includes languages such as C#, Python, or PowerShell, besides others.

On Windows, a lot of things are implemented as COM objects underneath the surface. HTML rendering (Internet Explorer), Word, Excel, and even the .NET runtime is a COM object. This means that if you have a language that can create and invoke methods on a COM object, you can host the .NET runtime in your own applications. Do you want to run some VBScript? Well, there...

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Authors (1)

Profile icon Johann Rehberger
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Johann Rehberger has over fifteen years of experience in threat analysis, threat modeling, risk management, penetration testing, and red teaming. As part of his many years at Microsoft, Johann established a penetration test team in Azure Data and led the program as Principal Security Engineering Manager. Recently, he built out a red team at Uber and currently works as an independent security and software engineer. Johann is well versed in analysis, design, implementation, and testing of software systems. Additionally, he enjoys providing training and was an instructor for ethical hacking at the University of Washington. Johann contributed to the MITRE ATT&CK framework and holds a master's in computer security from the University of Liverpool.
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