Cobalt Strike 3.11 – The snake that eats its tail
Cobalt Strike 3.11 is now available. This release adds to Cobalt Strike’s in-memory threat emulation and evasion capabilities, adds a means to run .NET executable
Beware of Slow Downloads
I often receive emails that ask about slow file downloads with the Beacon payload. Here are the symptoms: When I get these emails, I usually
In-Memory Evasion
Many analysts and automated solutions take advantage of various memory detections to find injected DLLs in memory. Memory detections look at the properties (and content)
Cobalt Strike 3.10 – Хакер vs. 肉雞
Cobalt Strike 3.10 is now available. This release adds Unicode support to the Beacon payload, introduces a built-in report based on MITRE’s ATT&CK matrix, and performs endodontics on
Modern Defenses and YOU!
Part 9 of Advanced Threat Tactics covers a lot of my thoughts on evasion. The ideas in that lecture are still relevant, the defenses discussed
Cobalt Strike 3.9 – Livin’ in a Stager’s Paradise
Cobalt Strike 3.9 is now available. This release brings several additions to Malleable C2 with an emphasis on staging flexibility. Malleable HTTP/S Staging Stagers are
OPSEC Considerations for Beacon Commands
Update January 9, 2020 – This topic is now part of the Cobalt Strike documentation. Head over to the Beacon Command Behavior page for the
High-reputation Redirectors and Domain Fronting
Working on Cobalt Strike, I get some insight into what folks are trying to do with it. Recently, the use of domain fronting for redirectors
My First Go with BloodHound
I finally had a chance to sit down and play with BloodHound. This was an item on my hacker todo list for awhile now. In
Agentless Post Exploitation
Agentless Post Exploitation is using system administration capabilities to meet post-exploitation objectives, without an agent on the target. It’s just evil system administration. This talk