List of Awesome Red Team / Red Teaming Resources

This list is for anyone wishing to learn about Red Teaming but do not have a starting point.

Anyway, this is a living resources and will update regularly with latest Adversarial Tactics and Techniques based on Mitre ATT&CK

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• Initial Access
• Execution
• Persistence
• Privilege Escalation
• Defense Evasion
• Credential Access
• Discovery
• Lateral Movement
• Collection
• Exfiltration
• Command and Control
• Embedded and Peripheral Devices Hacking
• Misc
• RedTeam Gadgets
• Ebooks
• Training
• Certification

• The Hitchhiker’s Guide To Initial Access
• How To: Empire’s Cross Platform Office Macro
• Phishing with PowerPoint
• PHISHING WITH EMPIRE
• Bash Bunny
• OWASP Presentation of Social Engineering - OWASP
• USB Drop Attacks: The Danger of “Lost And Found” Thumb Drives
• Weaponizing data science for social engineering: Automated E2E spear phishing on Twitter - Defcon 24
• Cobalt Strike - Spear Phishing documentation
• Cobalt Strike Blog - What's the go-to phishing technique or exploit?
• Spear phishing with Cobalt Strike - Raphael Mudge
• EMAIL RECONNAISSANCE AND PHISHING TEMPLATE GENERATION MADE SIMPLE
• Phishing for access
• Excel macros with PowerShell
• PowerPoint and Custom Actions
• Macro-less Code Exec in MSWord
• Multi-Platform Macro Phishing Payloads
• Abusing Microsoft Word Features for Phishing: “subDoc”
• Phishing Against Protected View
• POWERSHELL EMPIRE STAGERS 1: PHISHING WITH AN OFFICE MACRO AND EVADING AVS
• The PlugBot: Hardware Botnet Research Project
• Luckystrike: An Evil Office Document Generator
• The Absurdly Underestimated Dangers of CSV Injection
• Macroless DOC malware that avoids detection with Yara rule
• Phishing between the app whitelists
• Executing Metasploit & Empire Payloads from MS Office Document Properties (part 1 of 2)
• Executing Metasploit & Empire Payloads from MS Office Document Properties (part 2 of 2)
• Social Engineer Portal
• 7 Best social Engineering attack
• Using Social Engineering Tactics For Big Data Espionage - RSA Conference Europe 2012
• USING THE DDE ATTACK WITH POWERSHELL EMPIRE
• Phishing on Twitter - POT
• Microsoft Office – NTLM Hashes via Frameset
• Defense-In-Depth write-up
• Spear Phishing 101

• Research on CMSTP.exe,
• Windows oneliners to download remote payload and execute arbitrary code
• Executing Commands and Bypassing AppLocker with PowerShell Diagnostic Scripts
• WSH Injection: A Case Study
• Gscript Dropper

• A View of Persistence
• hiding registry keys with psreflect
• Persistence using RunOnceEx – Hidden from Autoruns.exe
• Persistence using GlobalFlags in Image File Execution Options – Hidden from Autoruns.exe
• Putting data in Alternate data streams and how to execute it – part 2
• WMI Persistence with Cobalt Strike
• Leveraging INF-SCT Fetch & Execute Techniques For Bypass, Evasion, & Persistence
• Leveraging INF-SCT Fetch & Execute Techniques For Bypass, Evasion, & Persistence (Part 2)
• Vshadow: Abusing the Volume Shadow Service for Evasion, Persistence, and Active Directory Database Extraction

• First entry: Welcome and fileless UAC bypass,
• Exploiting Environment Variables in Scheduled Tasks for UAC Bypass,
• Reading Your Way Around UAC in 3 parts: Part 1. Part 2. Part 3.
• Bypassing UAC using App Paths,
• "Fileless" UAC Bypass using sdclt.exe,
• UAC Bypass or story about three escalations,
• "Fileless" UAC Bypass Using eventvwr.exe and Registry Hijacking,
• Bypassing UAC on Windows 10 using Disk Cleanup,
• Using IARPUninstallStringLauncher COM interface to bypass UAC,
• Fileless UAC Bypass using sdclt
• Eventvwr File-less UAC Bypass CNA
• Windows 7 UAC whitelist

• Windows Privilege Escalation Checklist
• From Patch Tuesday to DA
• A Path for Privilege Escalation

• Window 10 Device Guard Bypass
• App Locker ByPass List
• Window Signed Binary
• Bypass Application Whitelisting Script Protections - Regsvr32.exe & COM Scriptlets (.sct files)
• Bypassing Application Whitelisting using MSBuild.exe - Device Guard Example and Mitigations
• Empire without powershell
• Powershell without Powershell to bypass app whitelist
• MS Signed mimikatz in just 3 steps
• Hiding your process from sysinternals
• code signing certificate cloning attacks and defenses
• userland api monitoring and code injection detection
• In memory evasion
• Bypassing AMSI via COM Server Hijacking
• process doppelganging
• Week of Evading Microsoft ATA - Announcement and Day 1 to Day 5
• VEIL-EVASION AES ENCRYPTED HTTPKEY REQUEST: SAND-BOX EVASION
• Putting data in Alternate data streams and how to execute it
• AppLocker – Case study – How insecure is it really? – Part 1
• AppLocker – Case study – How insecure is it really? – Part 2
• Harden Windows with AppLocker – based on Case study part 2
• Harden Windows with AppLocker – based on Case study part 2
• Office 365 Safe links bypass
• Windows Defender Attack Surface Reduction Rules bypass
• Bypassing Device guard UMCI using CHM – CVE-2017-8625
• Bypassing Application Whitelisting with BGInfo
• Cloning and Hosting Evil Captive Portals using a Wifi PineApple
• https://bohops.com/2018/01/23/loading-alternate-data-stream-ads-dll-cpl-binaries-to-bypass-applocker/
• Executing Commands and Bypassing AppLocker with PowerShell Diagnostic Scripts
• mavinject.exe Functionality Deconstructed

• Windows Access Tokens and Alternate credentials
• Bringing the hashes home with reGeorg & Empire
• Intercepting passwords with Empire and winning
• Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) Part 1
• Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) Part 2
• USING A SCF FILE TO GATHER HASHES
• Remote Hash Extraction On Demand Via Host Security Descriptor Modification
• Offensive Encrypted Data Storage
• Practical guide to NTLM Relaying
• Dump Clear-Text Passwords for All Admins in the Domain Using Mimikatz DCSync
• Dumping Domain Password Hashes

• Red Team Operating in a Modern Environment
• My First Go with BloodHound
• Introducing BloodHound
• A Red Teamer’s Guide to GPOs and OUs
• Automated Derivative Administrator Search
• A Pentester’s Guide to Group Scoping
• Local Group Enumeration
• The PowerView PowerUsage Series #1 - Mass User Profile Enumeration
• The PowerView PowerUsage Series #2 – Mapping Computer Shortnames With the Global Catalog
• The PowerView PowerUsage Series #3 – Enumerating GPO edit rights in a foreign domain
• The PowerView PowerUsage Series #4 – Finding cross-trust ACEs
• Aggressor PowerView
• Lay of the Land with BloodHound
• Scanning for Active Directory Privileges & Privileged Accounts
• Microsoft LAPS Security & Active Directory LAPS Configuration Recon
• Trust Direction: An Enabler for Active Directory Enumeration and Trust Exploitation
• SPN Discovery

• A Citrix Story
• Jumping Network Segregation with RDP
• Pass hash pass ticket no pain
• Abusing DNSAdmins privilege for escalation in Active Directory
• Using SQL Server for attacking a Forest Trust
• Extending BloodHound for Red Teamers
• OPSEC Considerations for beacon commands
• My First Go with BloodHound
• Kerberos Party Tricks: Weaponizing Kerberos Protocol Flaws
• Lateral movement using excel application and dcom
• Lay of the Land with BloodHound
• The Most Dangerous User Right You (Probably) Have Never Heard Of
• Agentless Post Exploitation
• A Guide to Attacking Domain Trusts
• Pass-the-Hash Is Dead: Long Live LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy
• Targeted Kerberoasting
• Kerberoasting Without Mimikatz
• Abusing GPO Permissions
• Abusing Active Directory Permissions with PowerView
• Roasting AS-REPs
• Getting the goods with CrackMapExec: Part 1
• Getting the goods with CrackMapExec: Part 2
• DiskShadow: The Return of VSS Evasion, Persistence, and Active Directory Database Extraction
• Abusing Exported Functions and Exposed DCOM Interfaces for Pass-Thru Command Execution and Lateral Movement
• a guide to attacking domain trusts
• Outlook Home Page – Another Ruler Vector
• Outlook Forms and Shells
• Abusing the COM Registry Structure: CLSID, LocalServer32, & InprocServer32
• LethalHTA - A new lateral movement technique using DCOM and HTA
• Abusing DCOM For Yet Another Lateral Movement Technique

• Accessing clipboard from the lock screen in Windows 10 Part 1
• Accessing clipboard from the lock screen in Windows 10 Part 2

• DNS Data exfiltration — What is this and How to use?
• DNS Tunnelling
• sg1: swiss army knife for data encryption, exfiltration & covert communication
• Data Exfiltration over DNS Request Covert Channel: DNSExfiltrator
• DET (extensible) Data Exfiltration Toolkit
• Data Exfiltration via Formula Injection Part1

• Empre Domain Fronting
• Escape and Evasion Egressing Restricted Networks - Tom Steele and Chris Patten
• Finding Frontable Domain
• TOR Fronting – Utilising Hidden Services for Privacy
• Simple domain fronting PoC with GAE C2 server
• Domain Fronting Via Cloudfront Alternate Domains
• Finding Domain frontable Azure domains - thoth / Fionnbharr (@a_profligate)
• Google Groups: Blog post on finding 2000+ Azure domains using Censys
• Red Team Insights on HTTPS Domain Fronting Google Hosts Using Cobalt Strike
• SSL Domain Fronting 101
• How I Identified 93k Domain-Frontable CloudFront Domains
• Validated CloudFront SSL Domains
• CloudFront Hijacking
• CloudFrunt GitHub Repo

• Redirecting Cobalt Strike DNS Beacons
• Apache2Mod Rewrite Setup
• Cobalt Strike HTTP C2 Redirectors with Apache mod_rewrite
• High-reputation Redirectors and Domain Fronting
• Cloud-based Redirectors for Distributed Hacking
• Combatting Incident Responders with Apache mod_rewrite
• Operating System Based Redirection with Apache mod_rewrite
• Invalid URI Redirection with Apache mod_rewrite
• Strengthen Your Phishing with Apache mod_rewrite and Mobile User Redirection
• mod_rewrite rule to evade vendor sandboxes
• Expire Phishing Links with Apache RewriteMap
• Serving random payloads with NGINX
• Mod_Rewrite Automatic Setup
• Hybrid Cobalt Strike Redirectors
• Expand Your Horizon Red Team – Modern SAAS C2
• RTOps: Automating Redirector Deployment With Ansible

• C2 with Dropbox
• C2 with gmail
• C2 with twitter
• Office 365 for Cobalt Strike C2
• Red Team Insights on HTTPS Domain Fronting Google Hosts Using Cobalt Strike
• A stealthy Python based Windows backdoor that uses Github as a C&C server
• External C2 (Third-Party Command and Control)
• Cobalt Strike over external C2 – beacon home in the most obscure ways
• External C2 for Cobalt Strike
• External C2 framework for Cobalt Strike
• External C2 framework - GitHub Repo
• Hiding in the Cloud: Cobalt Strike Beacon C2 using Amazon APIs
• Exploring Cobalt Strike's ExternalC2 framework

• C2 WebSocket
• C2 WMI
• C2 Website
• C2 Image
• C2 Javascript
• C2 WebInterface
• C2 with DNS
• C2 with https
• C2 with webdav
• Introducing Merlin — A cross-platform post-exploitation HTTP/2 Command & Control Tool
• InternetExplorer.Application for C2

• Automated Red Team Infrastructure Deployment with Terraform - Part 1
• Automated Red Team Infrastructure Deployment with Terraform - Part 2
• Red Team Infrastructure - AWS Encrypted EBS
• 6 RED TEAM INFRASTRUCTURE TIPS
• How to Build a C2 Infrastructure with Digital Ocean – Part 1
• Infrastructure for Ongoing Red Team Operations
• Attack Infrastructure Log Aggregation and Monitoring
• Randomized Malleable C2 Profiles Made Easy
• Migrating Your infrastructure
• ICMP C2
• Using WebDAV features as a covert channel
• Safe Red Team Infrastructure
• EGRESSING BLUECOAT WITH COBALTSTIKE & LET'S ENCRYPT
• Command and Control Using Active Directory
• A Vision for Distributed Red Team Operations
• Designing Effective Covert Red Team Attack Infrastructure
• Serving Random Payloads with Apache mod_rewrite
• Mail Servers Made Easy
• Securing your Empire C2 with Apache mod_rewrite
• Automating Gophish Releases With Ansible and Docker
• How to Write Malleable C2 Profiles for Cobalt Strike
• How to Make Communication Profiles for Empire
• A Brave New World: Malleable C2
• Malleable Command and Control

• Gettting in with the Proxmark3 & ProxBrute
• Practical Guide to RFID Badge copying
• Contents of a Physical Pentester Backpack
• MagSpoof - credit card/magstripe spoofer
• Wireless Keyboard Sniffer
• RFID Hacking with The Proxmark 3
• Swiss Army Knife for RFID
• Exploring NFC Attack Surface
• Outsmarting smartcards
• Reverse engineering HID iClass Master keys
• Android Open Pwn Project (AOPP)

• Red Tips of Vysec
• Cobalt Strike Tips for 2016 ccde red teams
• Models for Red Team Operations
• Planning a Red Team exercise
• Raphael Mudge - Dirty Red Team tricks
• introducing the adversary resilience methodology part 1
• introducing the adversary resilience methodology part 2
• Responsible red team
• Red Teaming for Pacific Rim CCDC 2017
• How I Prepared to Red Team at PRCCDC 2015
• Red Teaming for Pacific Rim CCDC 2016
• Responsible Red Teams
• Awesome-CobaltStrike
• RedTeaming from Zero to One Part-1 Part-2

• LAN Tap Pro
• LAN Turtle
• Bash Bunny
• Key Croc
• Packet Squirrel
• Shark Jack

• WiFi Pineapple
• Alpha Long range Wireless USB
• Wifi-Deauth Monster
• Crazy PA
• Signal Owl

• BLE Key
• Proxmark3
• Zigbee Sniffer
• Attify IoT Exploit kit

• HackRF One Bundle
• RTL-SDR
• YARD stick one Bundle
• Ubertooth

• Key Grabber
• Magspoof
• Poison tap
• keysweeper
• USB Rubber Ducky
• Screen Crab
• O.MG Cable
• Keysy
• Dorothy for Okta SSO

• Next Generation Red Teaming
• Targeted Cyber Attack
• Advanced Penetration Testing: Hacking the World's Most Secure Networks
• Social Engineers' Playbook Practical Pretexting
• The Hacker Playbook 3: Practical Guide To Penetration Testing
• How to Hack Like a PORNSTAR: A step by step process for breaking into a BANK

• Tradecraft - a course on red team operations
• Advanced Threat Tactics Course & Notes
• FireEye - a whiteboard session on red team operations

• Building an Effective Active Directory Lab Environment for Testing
• Setting up DetectionLab
• vulnerable-AD - Script to make your home AD Lab vulnerable

• CREST Certified Simulated Attack Specialist
• CREST Certified Simulated Attack Manager
• SEC564: Red Team Operations and Threat Emulation
• ELearn Security Penetration Testing eXtreme
• Certified Red Team Professional
• Certified Red Teaming Expert
• PentesterAcademy Certified Enterprise Security Specialist (PACES)