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Cortana is the scripting engine built into Armitage and Cobalt Strike. It’s based on my Sleep scripting language. Most scripting languages have a REPL (Read,
Interactive Cortana Programming
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A few months ago, I was having lunch at a favorite Italian restaurant in Washington, DC. I work in a residential area, which means lunch
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I wrote Cobalt Strike and I take it for granted that my users know where things are. This doesn’t come from nowhere though. The users
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A VPN pivot is a virtual network interface that gives you layer-2 access to your target’s network. Rapid7’s Metasploit Pro was the first pen testing product
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A user-driven attack is an attack that relies on a feature to get code execution. Most penetration testers I know rely on user-driven attacks over
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For a long time, I’ve wanted the ability to use PowerUp, Veil PowerView, and PowerSploit with Cobalt Strike. These are useful post-exploitation capabilities written in
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I often get asked about red team skills and training. What should each team member know how to do? For exercises or long running attack
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Recently, I’ve had several questions about how to set up infrastructure for long running red team operations with Cobalt Strike. This is an ideal use
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Seasoned Metasploit Framework users know that it’s a bad idea to let the framework generate an executable for you. The framework’s encoders are not a
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One of the most important features in Cobalt Strike is its Beacon payload. This is my capability to model advanced attackers. In this post, I’d