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Hands-On Red Team Tactics

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Product type Book
Published in Sep 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788995238
Pages 480 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (2):
Himanshu Sharma Himanshu Sharma
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Himanshu Sharma, 23, has already achieved fame for finding security loopholes and vulnerabilities in Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Adobe, Uber, AT&T, Avira, and many more with hall of fame listings as proofs. He has gained worldwide recognition through his hacking skills and contribution to the hacking community. He has helped celebrities such as Harbhajan Singh in recovering their hacked accounts, and also assisted an international singer in tracking down his hacked account and recovering it. He was a speaker at the international conference Botconf '13, held in Nantes, France. He also spoke at IEEE Conference in California and Malaysia as well as for TedX. Currently, he is the cofounder of BugsBounty, a crowd-sourced security platform for ethical hackers and companies interested in cyber services.
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Harpreet Singh Harpreet Singh
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Harpreet is a professional with 8+ years of experience in the field of Ethical Hacking, Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Research & Red Teaming. He is the author of "Hands-On: Web Penetration Testing with Metasploit" and "Hands-On: Red Team Tactics" published by Packt Publishing. He's also an OSCP, OSWP, CRTP certified professional. Over the years of his experience, Harpreet has acquired the Offensive & Defensive skill set. He is a professional who specializes in Wireless & network exploitation including but not limited to Mobile exploitation, Web Application exploitation and he has also performed few Red Team Engagements in Banks & Financial Groups.
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface 1. Red-Teaming and Pentesting 2. Pentesting 2018 3. Foreplay - Metasploit Basics 4. Getting Started with Cobalt Strike 5. ./ReverseShell 6. Pivoting 7. Age of Empire - The Beginning 8. Age of Empire - Owning Domain Controllers 9. Cobalt Strike - Red Team Operations 10. C2 - Master of Puppets 11. Obfuscating C2s - Introducing Redirectors 12. Achieving Persistence 13. Data Exfiltration 14. Assessment 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Persistence via Empire

Empire has a lot of inbuilt modules that allow us to use persistence on a system while performing a red team activity. These modules are divided into four main areas:

  • PowerBreach: This is a series of in-memory PowerShell backdoors that provide triggers for various options
  • userland: These are backdoors that execute on reboot without needing admin rights
  • elevated: These are backdoors that execute on reboot with admin rights
  • debugger triggers: These are backdoors that execute on a particular trigger (an example of this is sticky keys)

In this section, we will cover some of the modules for Linux, Windows, and macOS systems.

For Windows:

Assuming we have an agent connected on our empire from a Windows Machine:

To view a list of available persistence modules, we interact with agents using the interact <agent name> command.

Next, to view the available...

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Profile icon Himanshu Sharma
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Himanshu Sharma, 23, has already achieved fame for finding security loopholes and vulnerabilities in Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Adobe, Uber, AT&T, Avira, and many more with hall of fame listings as proofs. He has gained worldwide recognition through his hacking skills and contribution to the hacking community. He has helped celebrities such as Harbhajan Singh in recovering their hacked accounts, and also assisted an international singer in tracking down his hacked account and recovering it. He was a speaker at the international conference Botconf '13, held in Nantes, France. He also spoke at IEEE Conference in California and Malaysia as well as for TedX. Currently, he is the cofounder of BugsBounty, a crowd-sourced security platform for ethical hackers and companies interested in cyber services.
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Profile icon Harpreet Singh
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Harpreet is a professional with 8+ years of experience in the field of Ethical Hacking, Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Research & Red Teaming. He is the author of "Hands-On: Web Penetration Testing with Metasploit" and "Hands-On: Red Team Tactics" published by Packt Publishing. He's also an OSCP, OSWP, CRTP certified professional. Over the years of his experience, Harpreet has acquired the Offensive & Defensive skill set. He is a professional who specializes in Wireless & network exploitation including but not limited to Mobile exploitation, Web Application exploitation and he has also performed few Red Team Engagements in Banks & Financial Groups.
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