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
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
Connection Refused Error in Cobalt Strike
I’ve had several folks write to me asking about the Connection Refused error when they try to use Cobalt Strike. This one: Cobalt Strike 3.0
Named Pipe Pivoting
One of my favorite features in Cobalt Strike is its ability to pivot over named pipes. A named pipe is a way for two programs
Cobalt Strike 2.5 – Advanced Pivoting
I spend a lot of my red time in the Access Manager role. This is the person on a red team who manages callbacks for
User-defined Storage-based Covert Communication
One of my favorite Cobalt Strike technologies is Malleable C2. This is a domain specific language for user-defined storage-based covert communication. That’s just a fancy
Cobalt Strike 2.4 – A Pittance for Post-Exploitation
Cobalt Strike 2.4 is now available. If you use Beacon for post-exploitation, you’ll find a lot to like in this release. Here’s the highlights: Post-Exploitation Jobs
Scripting Beacons and Deploying Persistence
One common Cobalt Strike feature request is an API to script the Beacon payload. Doing this right is a big project and it requires some
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