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Red Team References

Red Team References

External references that contain Red Team related information.

Description Link
Red Team: How to think like the enemy - Micha Zenko https://www.cfr.org/book/red-team
Strategic Cyber Blog http://blog.cobaltstrike.com
SpecterOps Blog https://posts.specterops.io
ThreatExpress Blog http://threatexpress.com
Cobalt Strike Aggressor Scripts @harleyQu1nn https://github.com/harleyQu1nn/AggressorScripts
Cobalt Strike Aggressor Scripts @bluescreenofjeff https://github.com/bluscreenofjeff/AggressorScripts
Awesome-Red-Teaming https://github.com/yeyintminthuhtut/Awesome-Red-Teaming
Red Team Journal http://redteamjournal.com

Red Team Infrastructure

Tips and tricks on building a Red Team infrastructure.

Description Link
Red Team Infrastructure Wiki https://github.com/bluscreenofjeff/Red-Team-Infrastructure-Wiki
Designing Covert Red Team Infrastructure https://bluescreenofjeff.com/2017-12-05-designing-effective-covert-red-team-attack-infrastructure/
Mod_Rewrite Redirectors https://bluescreenofjeff.com/2016-06-28-cobalt-strike-http-c2-redirectors-with-apache-mod_rewrite/
CobaltStrike Profiles to Mod_Rewrite http://threatexpress.com/2018/02/automating-cobalt-strike-profiles-apache-mod_rewrite-htaccess-files-intelligent-c2-redirection/
SSL Certificate installation/transparency reports https://cryptoreport.websecurity.symantec.com
SSL Certificate installation/transparency reports https://transparencyreport.google.com/https/certificates?hl=en

Red Team Tools

Highlighted Red Team tools based on the Get In, Stay In, and Act concept and the Cyber Kill Chain

Get In

Reconnaissance

Tools for information gathering

Description Link
BloodHound https://github.com/BloodHoundAD/BloodHound
DomainHunter https://github.com/threatexpress/domainhunter
EyeWitness https://github.com/ChrisTruncer/EyeWitness
MailSniper https://github.com/dafthack/MailSniper
Nmap https://nmap.org
Recon-NG https://bitbucket.org/LaNMaSteR53/recon-ng
Shodan https://www.shodan.io/
OPSEC Considerations for Beacon Commands https://blog.cobaltstrike.com/2017/06/23/opsec-considerations-for-beacon-commands/

Weaponization

Tools for creating payloads

Description Link
CACTUSTORCH https://github.com/mdsecactivebreach/CACTUSTORCH
Backdoor Factory https://github.com/secretsquirrel/the-backdoor-factory
Unicorn https://github.com/trustedsec/unicorn
Veil https://github.com/Veil-Framework
10 Process Injection techniques https://www.endgame.com/blog/technical-blog/ten-process-injection-techniques-technical-survey-common-and-trending-process

Delivery

Tools for initial access and payload delivery

Description Link
Social Engineering Toolkit https://github.com/trustedsec/social-engineer-toolkit
GoPhish https://getgophish.com/
FiercePhish https://github.com/Raikia/FiercePhish

Exploitation

Tools for exploitation

Description Link
Burp Suite https://portswigger.net/burp
Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com
Metasploit https://www.metasploit.com
Zed Attack Proxy https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Zed_Attack_Proxy_Project

Stay In

Installation

Tools for persistence and payload installation

Description Link
Windows Privilege Escalation Checklist https://github.com/netbiosX/Checklists/blob/master/Windows-Privilege-Escalation.md
Persistence https://rastamouse.me/2018/03/a-view-of-persistence/
PowerSploit https://github.com/PowerShellMafia/PowerSploit

Command and Control

Command and Control tools and frameworks

Description Link
Empire http://www.powershellempire.com/
CobaltStrike https://cobaltstrike.com/
Kodiac https://github.com/zerosum0x0/koadic
PoshC2 https://github.com/nettitude/PoshC2
Pupy https://github.com/n1nj4sec/pupy
Merlin https://github.com/Ne0nd0g/merlin
Metasploit https://www.metasploit.com/
TinyShell https://github.com/threatexpress/tinyshell
Throwback https://github.com/silentbreaksec/Throwback
WMImplant https://github.com/ChrisTruncer/WMImplant

Act

Action on Objectives

Tools that perform actions on a target

Description Link
Misc PowerShell Post Exploitation Scripts https://github.com/rvrsh3ll/Misc-Powershell-Scripts
Hashcat https://hashcat.net/hashcat/
GhostPack https://github.com/GhostPack
DCOM objects for lateral movement https://www.cybereason.com/blog/dcom-lateral-movement-techniques
Mimikatz https://github.com/gentilkiwi/mimikatz
PowerUp https://github.com/PowerShellMafia/PowerSploit/blob/master/Privesc/PowerUp.ps1
PowerView https://github.com/PowerShellMafia/PowerSploit/blob/master/Recon/PowerView.ps1
WMIOps https://github.com/ChrisTruncer/WMIOps/