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PowerShell Automation and Scripting for Cybersecurity

You're reading from   PowerShell Automation and Scripting for Cybersecurity Hacking and defense for red and blue teamers

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800566378
Length 572 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: PowerShell Fundamentals
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with PowerShell FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: PowerShell Scripting Fundamentals 4. Chapter 3: Exploring PowerShell Remote Management Technologies and PowerShell Remoting 5. Chapter 4: Detection – Auditing and Monitoring 6. Part 2: Digging Deeper – Identities, System Access, and Day-to-Day Security Tasks
7. Chapter 5: PowerShell Is Powerful – System and API Access 8. Chapter 6: Active Directory – Attacks and Mitigation 9. Chapter 7: Hacking the Cloud – Exploiting Azure Active Directory/Entra ID 10. Chapter 8: Red Team Tasks and Cookbook 11. Chapter 9: Blue Team Tasks and Cookbook 12. Part 3: Securing PowerShell – Effective Mitigations In Detail
13. Chapter 10: Language Modes and Just Enough Administration (JEA) 14. Chapter 11: AppLocker, Application Control, and Code Signing 15. Chapter 12: Exploring the Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI) 16. Chapter 13: What Else? – Further Mitigations and Resources 17. Index 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Attacking AAD

During an attack, enumeration is always one of the first steps (and repeated several times, depending on what the adversary can access) taken to get more details about an environment. Enumeration helps to find out what resources are available and what access rights can be abused.

While in AD, every user who has access to the corporate network can enumerate all user accounts, as well as admin membership, in AAD, every user who has access to Office 365 services via the internet can enumerate them, but for AAD.

Anonymous enumeration

There is even a way to find out more about the current AAD tenant anonymously. For an adversary, this has huge advantages, as they do not need to trick a user into providing their credentials through a phishing attack or similar. Also, the risk of being detected is massively decreased.

There are numerous APIs that do have a legit purpose, but can also be abused for anonymous enumeration.

One of those APIs is the following:

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