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Awesome Red Teaming

List of Awesome Red Team / Red Teaming Resources

This list is for anyone wishing to learn about Red Teaming but do not have a starting point.

Anyway, this is a living resources and will update regularly with latest Adversarial Tactics and Techniques based on Mitre ATT&CK

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Table of Contents

  • Initial Access
  • Execution
  • Persistence
  • Privilege Escalation
  • Defense Evasion
  • Credential Access
  • Discovery
  • Lateral Movement
  • Collection
  • Exfiltration
  • Command and Control
  • Embedded and Peripheral Devices Hacking
  • Misc
  • RedTeam Gadgets
  • Ebooks
  • Training
  • Certification

↑ Initial Access

  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide To Initial Access
  • How To: Empire’s Cross Platform Office Macro
  • Phishing with PowerPoint
  • PHISHING WITH EMPIRE
  • Bash Bunny
  • OWASP Presentation of Social Engineering - OWASP
  • USB Drop Attacks: The Danger of “Lost And Found” Thumb Drives
  • Weaponizing data science for social engineering: Automated E2E spear phishing on Twitter - Defcon 24
  • Cobalt Strike - Spear Phishing documentation
  • Cobalt Strike Blog - What's the go-to phishing technique or exploit?
  • Spear phishing with Cobalt Strike - Raphael Mudge
  • EMAIL RECONNAISSANCE AND PHISHING TEMPLATE GENERATION MADE SIMPLE
  • Phishing for access
  • Excel macros with PowerShell
  • PowerPoint and Custom Actions
  • Macro-less Code Exec in MSWord
  • Multi-Platform Macro Phishing Payloads

↑ Execution

  • Research on CMSTP.exe,
  • Windows oneliners to download remote payload and execute arbitrary code
  • Executing Commands and Bypassing AppLocker with PowerShell Diagnostic Scripts
  • WSH Injection: A Case Study
  • Gscript Dropper

↑ Persistence

  • A View of Persistence
  • hiding registry keys with psreflect
  • Persistence using RunOnceEx – Hidden from Autoruns.exe
  • Persistence using GlobalFlags in Image File Execution Options – Hidden from Autoruns.exe
  • Putting data in Alternate data streams and how to execute it – part 2
  • WMI Persistence with Cobalt Strike
  • Leveraging INF-SCT Fetch & Execute Techniques For Bypass, Evasion, & Persistence
  • Leveraging INF-SCT Fetch & Execute Techniques For Bypass, Evasion, & Persistence (Part 2)
  • Vshadow: Abusing the Volume Shadow Service for Evasion, Persistence, and Active Directory Database Extraction

↑ Privilege Escalation

User Account Control Bypass

  • First entry: Welcome and fileless UAC bypass,
  • Exploiting Environment Variables in Scheduled Tasks for UAC Bypass,
  • Reading Your Way Around UAC in 3 parts: Part 1. Part 2. Part 3.
  • Bypassing UAC using App Paths,
  • "Fileless" UAC Bypass using sdclt.exe,
  • UAC Bypass or story about three escalations,
  • "Fileless" UAC Bypass Using eventvwr.exe and Registry Hijacking,
  • Bypassing UAC on Windows 10 using Disk Cleanup,
  • Using IARPUninstallStringLauncher COM interface to bypass UAC,
  • Fileless UAC Bypass using sdclt
  • Eventvwr File-less UAC Bypass CNA
  • Windows 7 UAC whitelist

Escalation

  • Windows Privilege Escalation Checklist
  • From Patch Tuesday to DA
  • A Path for Privilege Escalation

↑ Defense Evasion

  • Window 10 Device Guard Bypass
  • App Locker ByPass List
  • Window Signed Binary
  • Bypass Application Whitelisting Script Protections - Regsvr32.exe & COM Scriptlets (.sct files)
  • Bypassing Application Whitelisting using MSBuild.exe - Device Guard Example and Mitigations
  • Empire without powershell
  • Powershell without Powershell to bypass app whitelist
  • MS Signed mimikatz in just 3 steps
  • Hiding your process from sysinternals
  • code signing certificate cloning attacks and defenses
  • userland api monitoring and code injection detection
  • In memory evasion
  • Bypassing AMSI via COM Server Hijacking
  • process doppelganging
  • Week of Evading Microsoft ATA - Announcement and Day 1 to Day 5
  • VEIL-EVASION AES ENCRYPTED HTTPKEY REQUEST: SAND-BOX EVASION
  • Putting data in Alternate data streams and how to execute it

↑ Credential Access

  • Windows Access Tokens and Alternate credentials
  • Bringing the hashes home with reGeorg & Empire
  • Intercepting passwords with Empire and winning
  • Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) Part 1
  • Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) Part 2
  • USING A SCF FILE TO GATHER HASHES
  • Remote Hash Extraction On Demand Via Host Security Descriptor Modification
  • Offensive Encrypted Data Storage
  • Practical guide to NTLM Relaying
  • Dump Clear-Text Passwords for All Admins in the Domain Using Mimikatz DCSync
  • Dumping Domain Password Hashes

↑ Discovery

  • Red Team Operating in a Modern Environment
  • My First Go with BloodHound
  • Introducing BloodHound
  • A Red Teamer’s Guide to GPOs and OUs
  • Automated Derivative Administrator Search
  • A Pentester’s Guide to Group Scoping
  • Local Group Enumeration
  • The PowerView PowerUsage Series #1 - Mass User Profile Enumeration
  • The PowerView PowerUsage Series #2 – Mapping Computer Shortnames With the Global Catalog
  • The PowerView PowerUsage Series #3 – Enumerating GPO edit rights in a foreign domain
  • The PowerView PowerUsage Series #4 – Finding cross-trust ACEs
  • Aggressor PowerView
  • Lay of the Land with BloodHound
  • Scanning for Active Directory Privileges & Privileged Accounts
  • Microsoft LAPS Security & Active Directory LAPS Configuration Recon
  • Trust Direction: An Enabler for Active Directory Enumeration and Trust Exploitation
  • SPN Discovery

↑ Lateral Movement

  • A Citrix Story
  • Jumping Network Segregation with RDP
  • Pass hash pass ticket no pain
  • Abusing DNSAdmins privilege for escalation in Active Directory
  • Using SQL Server for attacking a Forest Trust
  • Extending BloodHound for Red Teamers
  • OPSEC Considerations for beacon commands
  • My First Go with BloodHound
  • Kerberos Party Tricks: Weaponizing Kerberos Protocol Flaws
  • Lateral movement using excel application and dcom
  • Lay of the Land with BloodHound
  • The Most Dangerous User Right You (Probably) Have Never Heard Of
  • Agentless Post Exploitation
  • A Guide to Attacking Domain Trusts
  • Pass-the-Hash Is Dead: Long Live LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy
  • Targeted Kerberoasting
  • Kerberoasting Without Mimikatz

↑ Collection

  • Accessing clipboard from the lock screen in Windows 10 Part 1
  • Accessing clipboard from the lock screen in Windows 10 Part 2

↑ Exfiltration

  • DNS Data exfiltration — What is this and How to use?
  • DNS Tunnelling
  • sg1: swiss army knife for data encryption, exfiltration & covert communication
  • Data Exfiltration over DNS Request Covert Channel: DNSExfiltrator
  • DET (extensible) Data Exfiltration Toolkit
  • Data Exfiltration via Formula Injection Part1

↑ Command and Control

Domain Fronting

  • Empre Domain Fronting
  • Escape and Evasion Egressing Restricted Networks - Tom Steele and Chris Patten
  • Finding Frontable Domain
  • TOR Fronting – Utilising Hidden Services for Privacy
  • Simple domain fronting PoC with GAE C2 server
  • Domain Fronting Via Cloudfront Alternate Domains
  • Finding Domain frontable Azure domains - thoth / Fionnbharr (@a_profligate)
  • Google Groups: Blog post on finding 2000+ Azure domains using Censys
  • Red Team Insights on HTTPS Domain Fronting Google Hosts Using Cobalt Strike
  • SSL Domain Fronting 101
  • How I Identified 93k Domain-Frontable CloudFront Domains
  • Validated CloudFront SSL Domains
  • CloudFront Hijacking
  • CloudFrunt GitHub Repo

Connection Proxy

  • Redirecting Cobalt Strike DNS Beacons
  • Apache2Mod Rewrite Setup
  • Cobalt Strike HTTP C2 Redirectors with Apache mod_rewrite
  • High-reputation Redirectors and Domain Fronting
  • Cloud-based Redirectors for Distributed Hacking
  • Combatting Incident Responders with Apache mod_rewrite
  • Operating System Based Redirection with Apache mod_rewrite
  • Invalid URI Redirection with Apache mod_rewrite
  • Strengthen Your Phishing with Apache mod_rewrite and Mobile User Redirection
  • mod_rewrite rule to evade vendor sandboxes
  • Expire Phishing Links with Apache RewriteMap
  • Serving random payloads with NGINX
  • Mod_Rewrite Automatic Setup
  • Hybrid Cobalt Strike Redirectors
  • Expand Your Horizon Red Team – Modern SAAS C2
  • RTOps: Automating Redirector Deployment With Ansible

Web Services

  • C2 with Dropbox
  • C2 with gmail
  • C2 with twitter
  • Office 365 for Cobalt Strike C2
  • Red Team Insights on HTTPS Domain Fronting Google Hosts Using Cobalt Strike
  • A stealthy Python based Windows backdoor that uses Github as a C&C server
  • External C2 (Third-Party Command and Control)
  • Cobalt Strike over external C2 – beacon home in the most obscure ways
  • External C2 for Cobalt Strike
  • External C2 framework for Cobalt Strike
  • External C2 framework - GitHub Repo
  • Hiding in the Cloud: Cobalt Strike Beacon C2 using Amazon APIs
  • Exploring Cobalt Strike's ExternalC2 framework

Application Layer Protocol

  • C2 WebSocket
  • C2 WMI
  • C2 Website
  • C2 Image
  • C2 Javascript
  • C2 WebInterface
  • C2 with DNS
  • C2 with https
  • C2 with webdav
  • Introducing Merlin — A cross-platform post-exploitation HTTP/2 Command & Control Tool
  • InternetExplorer.Application for C2

Infrastructure

  • Automated Red Team Infrastructure Deployment with Terraform - Part 1
  • Automated Red Team Infrastructure Deployment with Terraform - Part 2
  • Red Team Infrastructure - AWS Encrypted EBS
  • 6 RED TEAM INFRASTRUCTURE TIPS
  • How to Build a C2 Infrastructure with Digital Ocean – Part 1
  • Infrastructure for Ongoing Red Team Operations
  • Attack Infrastructure Log Aggregation and Monitoring
  • Randomized Malleable C2 Profiles Made Easy
  • Migrating Your infrastructure
  • ICMP C2
  • Using WebDAV features as a covert channel
  • Safe Red Team Infrastructure
  • EGRESSING BLUECOAT WITH COBALTSTIKE & LET'S ENCRYPT
  • Command and Control Using Active Directory
  • A Vision for Distributed Red Team Operations
  • Designing Effective Covert Red Team Attack Infrastructure
  • Serving Random Payloads with Apache mod_rewrite

↑ Embedded and Peripheral Devices Hacking

  • Gettting in with the Proxmark3 & ProxBrute
  • Practical Guide to RFID Badge copying
  • Contents of a Physical Pentester Backpack
  • MagSpoof - credit card/magstripe spoofer
  • Wireless Keyboard Sniffer
  • RFID Hacking with The Proxmark 3
  • Swiss Army Knife for RFID
  • Exploring NFC Attack Surface
  • Outsmarting smartcards
  • Reverse engineering HID iClass Master keys
  • Android Open Pwn Project (AOPP)

↑ Misc

  • Red Tips of Vysec
  • Cobalt Strike Tips for 2016 ccde red teams
  • Models for Red Team Operations
  • Planning a Red Team exercise
  • Raphael Mudge - Dirty Red Team tricks
  • introducing the adversary resilience methodology part 1
  • introducing the adversary resilience methodology part 2
  • Responsible red team
  • Red Teaming for Pacific Rim CCDC 2017
  • How I Prepared to Red Team at PRCCDC 2015
  • Red Teaming for Pacific Rim CCDC 2016
  • Responsible Red Teams
  • Awesome-CobaltStrike
  • RedTeaming from Zero to One Part-1 Part-2

↑ RedTeam Gadgets

Network Implants

  • LAN Tap Pro
  • LAN Turtle
  • Bash Bunny
  • Key Croc
  • Packet Squirrel
  • Shark Jack

Wifi Auditing

  • WiFi Pineapple
  • Alpha Long range Wireless USB
  • Wifi-Deauth Monster
  • Crazy PA
  • Signal Owl

IoT

  • BLE Key
  • Proxmark3
  • Zigbee Sniffer
  • Attify IoT Exploit kit

Software Defined Radio - SDR

  • HackRF One Bundle
  • RTL-SDR
  • YARD stick one Bundle
  • Ubertooth

Misc

  • Key Grabber
  • Magspoof
  • Poison tap
  • keysweeper
  • USB Rubber Ducky
  • Screen Crab
  • O.MG Cable
  • Keysy
  • Dorothy for Okta SSO

↑ Ebooks

  • Next Generation Red Teaming
  • Targeted Cyber Attack
  • Advanced Penetration Testing: Hacking the World's Most Secure Networks
  • Social Engineers' Playbook Practical Pretexting
  • The Hacker Playbook 3: Practical Guide To Penetration Testing
  • How to Hack Like a PORNSTAR: A step by step process for breaking into a BANK

↑ Training ( Free )

  • Tradecraft - a course on red team operations
  • Advanced Threat Tactics Course & Notes
  • FireEye - a whiteboard session on red team operations

Home Lab

  • Building an Effective Active Directory Lab Environment for Testing
  • Setting up DetectionLab
  • vulnerable-AD - Script to make your home AD Lab vulnerable

↑ Certification

  • CREST Certified Simulated Attack Specialist
  • CREST Certified Simulated Attack Manager
  • SEC564: Red Team Operations and Threat Emulation
  • ELearn Security Penetration Testing eXtreme
  • Certified Red Team Professional
  • Certified Red Teaming Expert
  • PentesterAcademy Certified Enterprise Security Specialist (PACES)
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  • Abusing Microsoft Word Features for Phishing: “subDoc”
  • Phishing Against Protected View
  • POWERSHELL EMPIRE STAGERS 1: PHISHING WITH AN OFFICE MACRO AND EVADING AVS
  • The PlugBot: Hardware Botnet Research Project
  • Luckystrike: An Evil Office Document Generator
  • The Absurdly Underestimated Dangers of CSV Injection
  • Macroless DOC malware that avoids detection with Yara rule
  • Phishing between the app whitelists
  • Executing Metasploit & Empire Payloads from MS Office Document Properties (part 1 of 2)
  • Executing Metasploit & Empire Payloads from MS Office Document Properties (part 2 of 2)
  • Social Engineer Portal
  • 7 Best social Engineering attack
  • Using Social Engineering Tactics For Big Data Espionage - RSA Conference Europe 2012
  • USING THE DDE ATTACK WITH POWERSHELL EMPIRE
  • Phishing on Twitter - POT
  • Microsoft Office – NTLM Hashes via Frameset
  • Defense-In-Depth write-up
  • Spear Phishing 101
  • AppLocker – Case study – How insecure is it really? – Part 1
  • AppLocker – Case study – How insecure is it really? – Part 2
  • Harden Windows with AppLocker – based on Case study part 2
  • Harden Windows with AppLocker – based on Case study part 2
  • Office 365 Safe links bypass
  • Windows Defender Attack Surface Reduction Rules bypass
  • Bypassing Device guard UMCI using CHM – CVE-2017-8625
  • Bypassing Application Whitelisting with BGInfo
  • Cloning and Hosting Evil Captive Portals using a Wifi PineApple
  • https://bohops.com/2018/01/23/loading-alternate-data-stream-ads-dll-cpl-binaries-to-bypass-applocker/
  • Executing Commands and Bypassing AppLocker with PowerShell Diagnostic Scripts
  • mavinject.exe Functionality Deconstructed
  • Abusing GPO Permissions
  • Abusing Active Directory Permissions with PowerView
  • Roasting AS-REPs
  • Getting the goods with CrackMapExec: Part 1
  • Getting the goods with CrackMapExec: Part 2
  • DiskShadow: The Return of VSS Evasion, Persistence, and Active Directory Database Extraction
  • Abusing Exported Functions and Exposed DCOM Interfaces for Pass-Thru Command Execution and Lateral Movement
  • a guide to attacking domain trusts
  • Outlook Home Page – Another Ruler Vector
  • Outlook Forms and Shells
  • Abusing the COM Registry Structure: CLSID, LocalServer32, & InprocServer32
  • LethalHTA - A new lateral movement technique using DCOM and HTA
  • Abusing DCOM For Yet Another Lateral Movement Technique
  • Mail Servers Made Easy
  • Securing your Empire C2 with Apache mod_rewrite
  • Automating Gophish Releases With Ansible and Docker
  • How to Write Malleable C2 Profiles for Cobalt Strike
  • How to Make Communication Profiles for Empire
  • A Brave New World: Malleable C2
  • Malleable Command and Control