Revisiting the UDRL Part 3: Beacon User Data
The UDRL and the Sleepmask are key components of Cobalt Strike’s evasion strategy, yet historically they have not worked well together. For example, prior to
Revisiting the User-Defined Reflective Loader Part 2: Obfuscation and Masking
This is the second installment in a series revisiting the User-Defined Reflective Loader (UDRL). In part one, we aimed to simplify the development and debugging
Revisiting the User-Defined Reflective Loader Part 1: Simplifying Development
This blog post accompanies a new addition to the Arsenal Kit – The User-Defined Reflective Loader Visual Studio (UDRL-VS). Over the past few months, we
Writing Beacon Object Files: Flexible, Stealthy, and Compatible
Our colleagues over at Core Security have been doing great things with Cobalt Strike, making use of it in their own engagements. They wrote up
Learn Pipe Fitting for all of your Offense Projects
Named pipes are a method of inter-process communication in Windows. They’re used primarily for local processes to communicate with eachother. They can also facilitate communication
Pushing back on userland hooks with Cobalt Strike
When I think about defense in the current era, I think of it as a game of instrumentation and telemetry. A well-instrumented endpoint provides a
Agent Deployed: Core Impact and Cobalt Strike Interoperability
Core Impact 20.3 has shipped this week. With this release, we’re revealing patterns for interoperability between Core Impact and Cobalt Strike. In this post, I’ll
A Red Teamer Plays with JARM
I spent a little time looking into Saleforce’s JARM tool released in November. JARM is an active tool to probe the TLS/SSL stack of a listening
Beacon Object File ADVENTURES: Some Zerologon, SMBGhost, and Situational Awareness
Cobalt Strike can use PowerShell, .NET, and Reflective DLLs for its post-exploitation features. This is the weaponization problem set. How to take things, developed outside
Cobalt Strike Team Server Population Study
From February 4, 2019 to February 15, 2019 Strategic Cyber LLC connected to several live Cobalt Strike team servers to download Beacon payloads, analyze them,