Talk to your children about Payload Staging
Time to time, I find myself in an email exchange about payload security and payload staging. The payload security discussion revolves around Beacon’s security features.
What is a stageless payload artifact?
I’ve had a few questions about Cobalt Strike’s stageless payloads and how these compare to other payload varieties. In this blog post, I’ll explain stageless
Raffi’s Abridged Guide to Cobalt Strike
This blog post is a fast overview of Cobalt Strike. I assume that you are familiar with Meterpreter, Mimikatz, and make use of Offensive PowerShell in
Cobalt Strike 3.2 – The Inevitable x64 Beacon
Cobalt Strike 3.2, the third release in the 3.x series, is now available. The 3.2 release focuses on fixes and improvements across the Cobalt Strike
Cobalt Strike 3.1 – Scripting Beacons
Cobalt Strike 3.1 is now available. This release adds a lot of polish to the 3.x codebase and addresses several items from user feedback. Aggressor
Appropriate Covert Channels
As a product vendor, I regularly receive suggestions from my users. It’s easy to break these suggestions up into different categories. One such category would
The Cobalt Strike Trial’s Evil Bit
RFC 3514 proposes an IPv4 flag to allow traffic to flag itself as malicious or not. This RFC’s authors reason that if malicious programs opt
Cobalt Strike 3.0 – Advanced Threat Tactics
Cobalt Strike’s mission is to help security professionals emulate “advanced threat tactics” during their engagements. I’ve executed on this since the product’s 2012 release. Cobalt
The Aggressor Project (Preview)
If you’ve run into me at a conference during the 2015 calendar year, there’s a strong chance you’ve heard about or saw the Aggressor project.
User-defined Storage-based Covert Communication
One of my favorite Cobalt Strike technologies is Malleable C2. This is a domain specific language for user-defined storage-based covert communication. That’s just a fancy