Cobalt Strike supports a lot of different types of attacks and allows you to generate payloads easily from the menu. This is a very useful feature when performing a red team activity because it means you don't have to spend time switching between tools to create different payloads for different attack types, such as spear phishing or drive-bys. In this section, we will look at some of the attack types that are provided by Cobalt Strike and how to generate a payload with them.
To view the different types of payloads that we can generate from Cobalt Strike, click on Attacks from the menu, as shown in the following screenshot:
Cobalt Strike supports payload generation for three types of attack vectors: Packages, Web Drive-Bys, and Spear Phishing. Each of these are explained in more detail below
Packages:
- HTML Application: This generates an HTML application...
