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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

Chapter 4: Getting Started with Cobalt Strike

  1. Yes. It is necessary to plan the attack because you may get only one shot in which you have the advantage of the element of surprise. You need to know exactly when you'll be attacking the server and carry on with the operation.
  2. Cobalt Strike is not free, but you can download the trial version online. A little bit of Googling may help here.
  3. Yes, you can. However, for that you need to change the port in the team server script. Furthermore, running two team servers on the same instance will have a listener's port conflict. This can be avoided by using different ports for listeners during setup.
  4. You could be connecting to someone else's team server with your credentials. It's highly unlikely but possible that you're in an MITM attack phase.
  5. The older version of Cobalt Strike required MSF, but new versions don...
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