Another Night, Another Actor
Earlier last year, I had a frantic call from a customer. They needed to make a small change to Beacon’s communication pattern and quickly. This
DNS Communication is a Gimmick
I added DNS Communication to Cobalt Strike in June 2013 and refined it further in July 2013. On sales calls and at conferences I get
How I tunnel Meterpreter through Beacon
I write so many blog posts about Beacon, I should just give up and call this the Beacon blog. Beacon is Cobalt Strike’s post-exploitation agent
Cobalt Strike 2.3 – I’ve always wanted runas
Cobalt Strike 2.3 is now available. This release adds a runas command to Beacon. This command allows you to specify a username and password for any
Pass-the-(Golden)-Ticket with WMIC
One of my favorite blog posts from last year was the Adversary Tricks and Treats post from CrowdStrike. They showed how one of the actors
What’s the go-to phishing technique or exploit?
This blog post is inspired by a question sent to a local mailing list. The original poster asks, what’s the go-to phishing technique or exploit
When You Know Your Enemy
TL;DR This is my opinion on Threat Intelligence: Automated Defense using Threat Intelligence feeds is (probably) rebranded anti-virus. Threat Intelligence offers benefit when used to
Cobalt Strike 2.2 – 1995 called, it wants its covert channel back…
Cobalt Strike’s Covert VPN feature now supports ICMP as one of its channels. Covert VPN is Cobalt Strike’s layer-2 pivoting capability. If you’re curious about
Adversary Simulation Becomes a Thing…
There is a growing chorus of folks talking about simulating targeted attacks from known adversaries as a valuable security service. The argument goes like this: penetration testers
Interactive Cortana Programming
Cortana is the scripting engine built into Armitage and Cobalt Strike. It’s based on my Sleep scripting language. Most scripting languages have a REPL (Read,