7MS #477: Cobalt Strike for Newbs

7MS #477: Cobalt Strike for Newbs

Today we're talking about Cobalt Strike for newbs - including how to get it up and running, as well as some tools that will help you generate beacons while evading EDR at the same time!

Some helpful things mentioned in today's episode:

  • Wherever you spin up your CS instance, it's probably a good idea to lock down the firewall to only specific IPs. With Digital Ocean, I found this article helpful.

  • When generating CS listeners, the C2Concealer from FortyNorth helped me get malleable C2 profiles generated while creating a LetsEncrypt cert at the same time!

  • My CS beacons kept getting gobbled by AV, but the following resources helped me get some stealthy ones generated: Artifact Kit, PEzor and ScareCrow. Here's a specific ScareCrow example that flew under the EDR radar:

Scarecrow -I myrawshellcode.bin -etw -domain www.microsoft.com

  • PowerUpSQL is awesome for finding servers where you can run stored procedures to send your attacking box a priv'd hash to pass/capture/crack. Check out this presentation on PowerUpSQL to find vulnerable targets, then use mssql_ntlm_stealer module in Metasploit to have fun with the account hashes. Be sure to set your domain when configuring the Metasploit module!

  • When trying to pop an SMB shell with relay tools, I've had problems recently with those attempts being stopped by defensive tools. Then I found this gem which talks about tweaking smbexec.py to evade AV. It worked a treat!

  • When you use MultiRelay, I had no idea that it includes an upload function so you can simply upload your beacon.exe from a SYSTEM shell and fire it right from a command line. Cool!

  • Once my beacons started firing around the pentest environment, I temporarily allowed all IPs to talk to my Digital Ocean box - just because the IP I grabbed from a "what is my IP?" Google search didn't always match the actual beacons that called home. Once the beacon connectivity was established, I tweaked the beacon firewall rules to just let certain IPs in the door.

  • This Cobalt Strike Extension Kit was FREAKING sweet for adding "right click > do awesome stuff" functionality to CS like dump hashes, search for Kerberoastable accounts, setup persistence, etc.

  • Got a SYSTEM level shell but need to abuse a DA's privs? Tell the beacon to pull back a list of running processes, then click one (like explorer.exe) running under a DA's account and then impersonate it to add your account to the DA group!

  • Having issues dumping LSASS? This article from Red Canary gives you some great ideas to do it in a way that doesn't make AV throw a fit!

  • Trying to RDP using PtH? This article will help you out. And if you get warnings about not being able to RDP in because of some sort of login restriction, try adjusting this reg key with CME:

cme smb 10.1.2.3 -u Administrator -H THE-HASH-YOU-CAPTURED -x 'reg add HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa /t REG_DWORD /v DisableRestrictedAdmin /d 0x0 /f'

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7MS #650: Tales of Pentest Pwnage - Part 65

7MS #650: Tales of Pentest Pwnage - Part 65

Oooooo, giggidy! Today is (once again) my favorite tale of pentest pwnage. I learned about a feature of PowerUpSQL that helped me find a "hidden" SQL account, and that account ended up being the key to the entire pentest! I wonder how many hidden SQL accounts I've missed on past pentests….SIGH! Check out the awesome BloodHound gang thread about this here. Also, can't get Rubeus monitor mode to capture TGTs to the registry? Try output to file instead: rubeus monitor /interval:5 /nowrap /runfor:60 /consoleoutfile:c:\users\public\some-innocent-looking-file.log In the tangent department, I talk about a personal music project I'm resurrecting to help my community.

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7MS #649: First Impressions of Twingate

7MS #649: First Impressions of Twingate

Today we take a look at a zero-trust / ditch-your-VPN solution called Twingate (not a sponsor but we'd like them to be)! It also doubles nicely as a primary or backup connection for your DIY pentest dropboxes which we've talked about quite a bit here. In other news, we've moved from Teachable to Coursestack, so if you've bought training/ebooks with us before, you should've received some emails from us last Friday and can access our new training portal here. (If you THINK you should've received enrollment emails from CourseStack and didn't, drop us a line here.) In the tangent portion of our program, I give a health update on my mom and dad, and talk about some resources I'm exploring to reduce stress and anxiety after what has been a tough week for many of us.

8 Nov 20241h 12min

7MS #648: First Impressions of Level.io

7MS #648: First Impressions of Level.io

Hey friends, today I'm sharing my first (and non-sponsored) impressions of Level.io, a cool tool for managing Windows, Mac and Linux endpoints. It fits a nice little niche in our pentest dropbox deployments, it has an attractive price point and their support is fantastic.

1 Nov 202440min

7MS #647: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying – Part 19

7MS #647: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying – Part 19

Today we're talkin' business – specifically how to make your report delivery meetings calm, cool and collect (both for you and the client!).

25 Okt 202422min

7MS #646: Baby's First Incident Response with Velociraptor

7MS #646: Baby's First Incident Response with Velociraptor

Hey friends, today I'm putting my blue hat on and dipping my toes in incident response by way of playing with Velociraptor, a very cool (and free!) tool to find evil in your environment. Perhaps even better than the price tag, Velociraptor runs as a single binary you can deploy to spin up a server and then request endpoints to "phone home" to you by way of GPO scheduled task. The things I talk about in this episode and show in the YouTube stream are all based off of this awesome presentation from Eric Capuano, who also was kind enough to publish a handout to accompany the presentation. And on a personal note, I wanted to share that Velociraptor has got me interested in jumping face first into some tough APT labs provided by XINTRA. More to come on XINTRA's offering, but so far I'm very impressed!

18 Okt 202416min

7MS #645: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying - Part 18

7MS #645: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying - Part 18

Today I do a short travelogue about my trip to Washington, geek out about some cool training I did with Velociraptor, ponder drowning myself in blue team knowledge with XINTRA LABS, and share some thoughts about the conference talk I gave called 7 Ways to Panic a Pentester.

14 Okt 202431min

7MS #644: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 64

7MS #644: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 64

Hey! I'm speaking in Wanatchee, Washington next week at the NCESD conference about 7 ways to panic a pentester! Today's tale of pentest pwnage is a great reminder to enumerate, enumerate, enumerate! It also emphases that cracking NETLM/NETNTLMv1 isn't super easy to remember the steps for (at least for me) but this crack.sh article makes it a bit easier!

4 Okt 202441min

7MS #643: DIY Pentest Dropbox Tips – Part 11

7MS #643: DIY Pentest Dropbox Tips – Part 11

Today we continue where we left off in episode 641, but this time talking about how to automatically deploy and install a Ubuntu-based dropbox!  I also share some love for exegol as an all-in-one Active Directory pentesting platform.

27 Sep 202426min

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