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Hands-On Red Team Tactics

You're reading from   Hands-On Red Team Tactics A practical guide to mastering Red Team operations

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788995238
Length 480 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Harpreet Singh Harpreet Singh
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Himanshu Sharma Himanshu Sharma
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Red-Teaming and Pentesting FREE CHAPTER 2. Pentesting 2018 3. Foreplay - Metasploit Basics 4. Getting Started with Cobalt Strike 5. ./ReverseShell 6. Pivoting 7. Age of Empire - The Beginning 8. Age of Empire - Owning Domain Controllers 9. Cobalt Strike - Red Team Operations 10. C2 - Master of Puppets 11. Obfuscating C2s - Introducing Redirectors 12. Achieving Persistence 13. Data Exfiltration 14. Assessment 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Data exfiltration via Empire

We have already learned about getting reverse shells on Empire and using Empire to achieve persistence on the system. The next step is data exfiltration.

Empire has a built-in module which allows us to upload the data directly on to Dropbox. This is very useful in situations in which IP whitelisting is done, as Dropbox is one of the domains that generally allows employee access.

Let's take a look at an example of how this module is used. We interact with our agent and run the command as shown as follows:

usemodule exfiltration/exfil_dropbox

To view the details of the module, we type the info command:

This requires the path of the file we wish to transfer and the Dropbox API key, along with the target filename.

Once everything is set we execute the module as shown following, and the agent will then transfer the file to Dropbox using the...

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