Chapter 12: Delving into Command and Control Tactics

This chapter focuses on the Command and Control (C2) stage of the Cyber Kill Chain, which then leads to the threat actor completing the Actions on Objective phase of the cyber-attack. As an aspiring penetration tester, it's vital to understand the fundamentals of performing C2 operations from a threat actor's perspective. This technique also helps penetration testers to determine whether their clients' security solutions are fine-tuned to detect a real-world cyber-attack and stop a C2 operation being performed by a threat actor.

During the course of this chapter, you will understand the fundamentals of C2 operations during a cyber-attack and how penetration testers can utilize such techniques during their penetration test exercises during a real-world assessment. Furthermore, you will gain the skills for setting up your C2 server and performing post-exploitation techniques on a compromised host on a network.

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