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Cybersecurity Attacks – Red Team Strategies

You're reading from   Cybersecurity Attacks – Red Team Strategies A practical guide to building a penetration testing program having homefield advantage

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838828868
Length 524 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Johann Rehberger Johann Rehberger
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Embracing the Red
2. Chapter 1: Establishing an Offensive Security Program FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Managing an Offensive Security Team 4. Chapter 3: Measuring an Offensive Security Program 5. Chapter 4: Progressive Red Teaming Operations 6. Section 2: Tactics and Techniques
7. Chapter 5: Situational Awareness – Mapping Out the Homefield Using Graph Databases 8. Chapter 6: Building a Comprehensive Knowledge Graph 9. Chapter 7: Hunting for Credentials 10. Chapter 8: Advanced Credential Hunting 11. Chapter 9: Powerful Automation 12. Chapter 10: Protecting the Pen Tester 13. Chapter 11: Traps, Deceptions, and Honeypots 14. Chapter 12: Blue Team Tactics for the Red Team 15. Assessments 16. Another Book You May Enjoy

Chapter 9: Powerful Automation

In this chapter, we will explore automation techniques, focusing first on COM and Windows and then web browsers. We will use the Component Object Model (COM) to automate Outlook, Word, and Excel. Furthermore, we will show you how to automate and entirely remote-control web browsers across operating systems. To understand how to leverage the power of COM, we'll look at the basics and how to create COM objects and invoke their functionality with a few practical examples. So, let's get started.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Understanding COM automation on Windows and how it can be used to automate tasks such as sending emails with Microsoft Office
  • Achieving red teaming objectives by automating Microsoft Word and Excel
  • Automating and remote controlling web browsers as an adversarial tactic
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