Windows Access Tokens and Alternate Credentials
I’d like to call your attention to the humble runas.exe program on Windows. This program allows a Windows user to spawn another program with another
Post-Exploitation Only (Not Really)
During a recent conversation, a friend had mentioned that they saw Cobalt Strike as a post-exploitation only tool. This strikes me as a little odd.
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
Flying a Cylon Raider
In Season 1, Episode 5 of Battlestar Galactica, Lieutenant Kara Thrace finds herself marooned on a barren planet with a crashed Cylon Raider. To get
Revolutionary Device Detects Mimikatz Use
I see mimikatz as one of the most significant collections of offensive capability available today. Because there’s so much capability, folks are often interested in
Migrating Your Infrastructure
I’ve written about infrastructure for red team operations before. Infrastructure are the servers, domains, and other assets that support your ongoing operation against a target
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
Advanced Threat Tactics – Course and Notes
The release of Cobalt Strike 3.0 also saw the release of Advanced Threat Tactics, a nine-part course on red team operations and adversary simulations. This
Rethinking Reporting for Red Team Operations
Cobalt Strike 3.0 is coming in a few weeks. This upcoming release is the result of a large engineering effort that paralleled my existing efforts