Cobalt Strike 4.1 – The Mark of Injection
Cobalt Strike 4.1 is now available. This release introduces a new way to build post-ex tools that work with Beacon, pushes back on a generic
SSL certificate verification for failed
TL;DR a certificate for part of the Cobalt Strike update infrastructure changed. Download the 20200511 distribution package to avoid certificate verification errors. If you recently
Cobalt Strike 4.0 – Bring Your Own Weaponization
Cobalt Strike 4.0 is now available. This release improves Cobalt Strike’s distributed operations model, revises post-exploitation workflows to drop some historical baggage, and adds “Bring
Cobalt Strike’s Process Injection: The Details
Cobalt Strike 3.14 finally delivered some of the process injection flexibility I’ve long wanted to see in the product. In this post, I’d like to
Cobalt Strike 3.14 – Post-Ex Omakase Shimasu
Cobalt Strike 3.14 is now available. This release benefits the OPSEC of Beacon’s post-exploitation jobs. To take a screenshot, log keystrokes, dump credentials, or scan
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,
Cobalt Strike 3.13 – Why do we argue?
Cobalt Strike 3.13 is now available. This release adds a TCP Beacon, process argument spoofing, and extends the Obfuscate and Sleep capability to the SMB
Cobalt Strike 3.12 – Blink and you’ll miss it
Cobalt Strike 3.12 is now available. This release adds an “obfuscate and sleep” in-memory evasion feature, gives operators [some] control over process injection, and introduces
Broken Promises and Malleable C2 Profiles
Red Team infrastructure is a detail-heavy subject. Take the case of domain fronting through a CDN like CloudFront. You have to setup the CloudFront distribution, have a valid
PowerShell Shellcode Injection on Win 10 (v1803)
Cobalt Strike’s process to inject shellcode, via PowerShell, does not work with the latest Windows 10 update (v1803). While it’s possible to work without this