In Season 1, Episode 5 of Battlestar Galactica, Lieutenant Kara Thrace finds herself marooned on a barren planet with a crashed Cylon Raider. To get home, Lieutenant Thrace has to apply her knowledge of flight fundamentals to control the strange platform and pilot it back to safety.
And, so it goes with hacking. You don’t always get to choose your tools. In mature environments, the combination of defenses and analysts you’re working against will dictate which tools you can use.
When your favorite toolset is taken away from you, how do you operate?
Recently, I had a chance to discuss this question with the audience at the SANS Hackfest in Washington, DC. That talk, Flying a Cylon Raider, is a guide on how to take your knowledge of Meterpreter and apply it to other toolsets.
I’ve re-recorded the presentation. Here it is: