Category Archives: Red Teaming

Tap tap… is this thing on? Creating a notification-service for Cobalt-Strike

Ever needed a notifier when a new beacon checks in? Don’t want to keep checking your Cobalt-Strike server every 5 minutes in the hopes of a new callback? We got you covered! Introducing the notification-service aggressor script available athttps://github.com/NVISOsecurity/blogposts/tree/master/cobalt-strike-notifier If the above image resonates with you, you’ll know that the point between sending out your …

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NVISO and QuoIntelligence Announce Strategic Cooperation

We are pleased to announce that we have created a unique approach with QuoIntelligence GmbH in responding to the TIBER-EU testing. Using our approach, we combine both passive threat intelligence gathering and active offensive red team testing as one seamless experience while remaining independent from each other.   The TIBER-EU Framework, More Critical Now Than Ever  …

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Debugging DLL’s – 3 techniques to help you get started

During some redteam engagements, we find ourselves in the need of writing DLL’s. However, debugging DLL’s is not as easy as it seems, as a DLL isn’t built to run on its own.In this article, we will explore how you can debug a DLL effectively. What is a DLL? A DLL is short for a …

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Under the hood: Hiding data in JPEG images

Ever wondered how tools like ExifTool or stegano programs work under the hood? Ever wanted to create your own program to embed secret data into images? In this is a short blog post on how to embed secret data in image files. This is something you can do as a party trick, some sort of …

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Unmanaged file searching with Filesearcher.exe

During our red team engagements, we are often reliant on a command and control infrastructure. Typically these infrastructures are capable of loading .NET assemblies in memory, which gave me the idea of coding a filesearcher assembly. This was partially invented because of a CTF event I was participating in which had me hunting several file …

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What’s in a name? Thoughts on Red Team nomenclature

In my previous post, I promised to expand on the distinction between adversary emulation, adversary simulation, red teaming, and purple teaming, or at least how I tried to distinguish these terms in a way that made sense to me Emulation and simulation; I’ve heard both terms used interchangeably to refer to the same type of …

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Thoughts on the recent Red Team debate

Around the end of November 2019, Florian Roth wrote a much-discussed post about problems he saw with today’s red teaming. I considered writing a blog post to diverge some of my ideas and “respond” to his concerns. However, as is often the case with these types of things, I didn’t get to it at the …

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The Rise of Adversary Emulation

In this blog post, we will discuss a fairly new concept that has been gaining a lot of traction recently: Adversary Emulation. Adversary emulation aims to test a network’s resilience against advanced attackers or advanced persistent threats (APTs). To do so, the adversary’s tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) are emulated along the cyber kill chain, …

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