Comprehensive red team operations methodology covering full engagement lifecycle from planning through reporting. Addresses engagement scoping and rules of engagement negotiation, multi-tier C2 infrastructure design with redirectors and domain fronting, malleable traffic profiles and beacon tradecraft, OPSEC discipline including attribution avoidance and indicator management, EDR and AMSI evasion techniques using direct syscalls and unhooking, data collection with chain-of-custody controls, and structured reporting with purple team debrief workflows. Covers assumed-breach, external-to-internal, insider threat, and hybrid physical-cyber engagement scenarios with MITRE ATT&CK mapping throughout. Targets operators planning or executing adversary simulation engagements against mature defenders.
Anti-forensics and evidence destruction techniques for red team operators conducting authorized engagements. Covers log clearing on Windows (wevtutil, Clear-EventLog, ETW provider patching) and Linux (journal truncation, utmp/wtmp binary editing, syslog manipulation), timestamp manipulation via Timestomp and SetMACE to defeat timeline analysis, filesystem-level anti-forensics including NTFS Alternate Data Streams for payload hiding and secure deletion with sdelete/shred, memory artifact removal to counter live forensics, disk artifact manipulation targeting MFT entries and USN journal records, network forensics evasion through encrypted C2 channels and DNS-over-HTTPS tunneling, and anti-VM/sandbox detection to avoid dynamic analysis environments. Tools: Timestomp, wevtutil, sdelete, shred, MimiPenguin, Invoke-Phant0m. Aligns to MITRE ATT&CK T1070 (Indicator Removal), T1027 (Obfuscated Files or Information), T1497 (Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion). Each technique includes the forensic artifact it targets, the destruction or manipulation method, and the defender perspective so operators understand detection gaps they must account for.
Advanced API exploitation methodology focused on business logic abuse and sophisticated attack patterns that bypass traditional security controls. Covers business logic bypass through API call chaining and workflow manipulation. Addresses GraphQL-specific attacks including batching for credential brute-force, query depth exploitation, and introspection abuse. Includes pagination exploitation for data exfiltration, webhook hijacking for SSRF and data interception, and resource exhaustion through algorithmic complexity attacks. Covers race conditions in API transactions using parallel request techniques. Provides comprehensive JWT manipulation including algorithm confusion, kid injection, jku/x5u abuse, and claim tampering. Details API key leakage detection across source repositories, client-side code, and error messages. Covers undocumented endpoint discovery through predictable naming, debug routes, and source map analysis. Tooling includes Arjun, ParamSpider, jwt_tool, and GraphQL Voyager. Designed for authorized penetration testers targeting business logic layers that automated scanners miss.
Comprehensive API security testing methodology covering REST, gRPC, and WebSocket attack surfaces. Addresses the full OWASP API Security Top 10 2023 including BOLA/IDOR, broken authentication, excessive data exposure, rate limiting bypass, BFLA, mass assignment, SSRF, and security misconfiguration. Includes REST-specific attacks such as HTTP verb tampering, content-type switching, and parameter pollution. Covers gRPC exploitation through protobuf interception, reflection API enumeration, and metadata injection. Addresses WebSocket vulnerabilities including origin bypass, message injection, and cross-site WebSocket hijacking. Provides tooling guidance for Burp Suite, Postman, grpcurl, websocat, and mitmproxy. Each technique includes detection signatures and defensive indicators so you understand what artifacts your testing leaves behind. Designed for authorized penetration testing engagements against API-driven architectures.
Comprehensive secrets extraction methodology targeting CI/CD environments across all major platforms. Covers environment variable extraction from build contexts, exploitation of vault and secrets-manager misconfigurations (HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, GCP Secret Manager), runner and agent token abuse for lateral movement, OIDC federation attacks exploiting trust relationships between CI/CD providers and cloud platforms, build log leakage analysis for inadvertently exposed credentials, cache poisoning techniques for credential exfiltration, platform-specific credential store exploitation (GitHub Actions secrets, GitLab CI variables, Jenkins credential providers), service connection and service account abuse in Azure DevOps and GCP, and Docker registry credential theft from build environments. Maps to MITRE ATT&CK T1552 (Unsecured Credentials) and its sub-techniques. Each section provides enumeration procedures, extraction techniques, and post-exploitation pivoting guidance for using recovered secrets to expand access.
Container escape and breakout techniques targeting Docker, containerd, and Podman runtimes. Covers privileged container breakout via host filesystem mount and nsenter, Docker socket abuse through /var/run/docker.sock, Linux capability exploitation including CAP_SYS_ADMIN, CAP_SYS_PTRACE, and CAP_NET_ADMIN, cgroup v1 notify_on_release escape, runc CVEs such as CVE-2019-5736 and CVE-2024-21626 Leaky Vessels, kernel exploits from within containers, and Dockerfile misconfigurations like --privileged and host namespace sharing. Includes enumeration with capsh, amicontained, deepce, CDK, and nsenter. Maps to MITRE ATT&CK T1611 Escape to Host. Use this skill when the engagement scope includes container breakout, Docker escape, container privilege escalation, host access from container, or when you land inside a containerized environment and need to reach the underlying host.
Systematic methodology for identifying and exploiting cryptographic implementation weaknesses in real-world applications. Covers padding oracle attacks against CBC-mode ciphers with PKCS7 padding (Vaudenay's original attack through modern padbuster automation), ECB mode exploitation including block cut-and-paste and byte-at-a-time decryption, hash length extension attacks against SHA1/SHA256/MD5-based MACs using HashPump, RSA vulnerabilities including small public exponent, common modulus, Bleichenbacher PKCS1v1.5 padding oracle, and Coppersmith's method for partial key recovery. Addresses weak PRNG exploitation targeting time-seeded generators and Mersenne Twister MT19937 state recovery from observed outputs, timing side-channel attacks against comparison operations, nonce reuse in AES-GCM leading to authentication key recovery, and key derivation weaknesses including insufficient iteration counts and missing salts. Primary tooling includes padbuster, RsaCtfTool, hashpump, and PyCryptodome for building custom exploit payloads. Maps to CWE-327 (Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm), CWE-328 (Use of Weak Hash), and CWE-330 (Use of Insufficiently Random Values). Emphasizes black-box identification of vulnerable implementations before transitioning to targeted exploitation.
Practical offensive fuzzing methodology covering target identification, fuzzer selection (AFL++, libFuzzer, Honggfuzz, Boofuzz, syzkaller), harness writing, corpus curation, mutation strategies, coverage measurement, and crash triage. Use when setting up or running fuzz campaigns against any target: file parsers, network protocols, kernel drivers, EDR engines, embedded firmware, or language runtimes.
Kubernetes cluster attack techniques covering the full attack lifecycle from initial foothold in a pod to cluster-wide compromise. Covers service account token theft and impersonation, RBAC misconfiguration exploitation including wildcard permissions and privilege escalation via role binding, direct etcd access for secret extraction, kubelet API abuse on port 10250 and read-only port 10255, pod escape via hostPID hostNetwork and hostPath volume mounts, Kubernetes secrets enumeration and decoding, admission controller bypass techniques, network policy bypass and lateral movement, cloud metadata service access from pods for credential theft on AWS EKS GCP GKE and Azure AKS, CRD and operator abuse for persistence, and node compromise via DaemonSet deployment. Tools include kubectl, kube-hunter, peirates, kubeaudit, kdigger, kubeletctl. Maps to MITRE ATT&CK T1609 Container Administration Command, T1610 Deploy Container, T1613 Container and Resource Discovery. Use this skill when assessing Kubernetes clusters, attacking from within a compromised pod, exploiting RBAC or kubelet misconfigurations, or performing cloud-native lateral movement.
Comprehensive lateral movement tradecraft for authorized red team engagements covering credential-based movement (pass-the-hash, pass-the-ticket, overpass-the-hash), NTLM relay attacks (ntlmrelayx with PetitPotam, DFSCoerce, PrinterBug coercion), remote execution protocols (WMI, WinRM, DCOM, PsExec and alternatives), RDP session hijacking, and network pivoting through tunneling tools (chisel, ligolo-ng, SSH tunnels, SOCKS proxies). Provides operator-ready command sequences for mimikatz, crackmapexec/netexec, impacket suite, and evil-winrm with emphasis on OPSEC considerations, SMB signing bypass, and detection evasion. Maps to MITRE ATT&CK T1021 (Remote Services), T1550 (Use Alternate Authentication Material), and sub-techniques. Includes defender-perspective detection guidance for blue team awareness and a rapid engagement cheatsheet for common lateral movement scenarios encountered during internal penetration tests and assumed-breach exercises.
Comprehensive Linux privilege escalation methodology for offensive security engagements. Covers the full attack surface from a low-privilege shell to root: SUID/SGID binary abuse via GTFOBins, Linux capabilities exploitation (cap_setuid, cap_dac_override, cap_dac_read_search), sudo misconfigurations including NOPASSWD rules and Baron Samedit (CVE-2021-3156), cron job abuse through writable scripts, PATH hijacking, and wildcard injection with tar/rsync/chown. Includes writable /etc/passwd attacks, NFS no_root_squash exploitation, kernel exploits (DirtyPipe CVE-2022-0847, DirtyCow CVE-2016-5195, PwnKit CVE-2021-4034), Docker group container escapes, LD_PRELOAD and LD_LIBRARY_PATH hijacking for shared library injection, systemd service misconfigurations, and sensitive file enumeration for credential harvesting. Integrates automated enumeration with LinPEAS, linux-exploit-suggester, pspy for process monitoring, and GTFOBins for binary exploitation. Each technique includes detection signatures and defender-side visibility to support purple team operations. Maps to MITRE ATT&CK T1548 (Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism) and related sub-techniques. Designed for authorized penetration testing, red team engagements, and CTF competitions where you hold a low-privilege shell and need to escalate to root.
Use this skill whenever the user asks about NetExec (nxc) — a network exploitation and post-exploitation tool for Active Directory environments. Triggers include: any mention of 'nxc', 'netexec', 'crackmapexec' successor questions, AD enumeration, SMB/LDAP/WinRM/MSSQL/SSH/RDP/VNC/WMI/FTP/NFS protocol attacks, password spraying, credential dumping (SAM, NTDS, LSASS, DPAPI), Kerberoasting, ASREPRoasting, lateral movement, BloodHound collection, module usage, or any pentest workflow involving Windows domain environments. This skill covers ALL protocols, ALL modules, and ALL core features of NetExec. Always provide full command examples with correct flags and options.
Comprehensive persistence tradecraft for authorized red team engagements covering Windows and Linux mechanisms. Windows techniques include registry Run/RunOnce keys, scheduled tasks, WMI event subscriptions, DLL search order hijacking, COM object hijacking, Startup folder drops, service creation, Security Support Provider (SSP) DLL injection, and Active Directory persistence (AdminSDHolder abuse, DCShadow, Golden Ticket, Silver Ticket, Skeleton Key, SID History injection). Linux techniques include cron and at jobs, systemd timers and services, SSH authorized_keys injection, shell profile backdoors (.bashrc/.bash_profile), PAM module backdoors, LD_PRELOAD hijacking, kernel module rootkits, web shells, and Git hook abuse. Provides operator-ready command sequences for SharPersist, Impacket ticketer, schtasks, sc.exe, crontab, and systemctl with OPSEC considerations for each method. Maps to MITRE ATT&CK T1547 (Boot or Logon Autostart), T1053 (Scheduled Task/Job), T1546 (Event Triggered Execution), T1556 (Modify Authentication Process), and sub-techniques. Includes detection indicators and a rapid engagement cheatsheet.
Shellcode development reference for offensive security engagements. Use when writing custom x86/x64 shellcode, implementing position-independent code (PIC), building shellcode loaders, evading AV/EDR detection, or converting PE files to shellcode. Covers null byte avoidance, API hashing, encoder/decoder patterns, staged vs stageless payloads, Windows PEB traversal, and cross-platform shellcode techniques.
Comprehensive methodology for auditing and exploiting TLS/SSL implementations and misconfigurations across network services and mobile applications. Covers protocol downgrade attacks including POODLE (CVE-2014-3566) against SSLv3 CBC padding, DROWN (CVE-2016-0800) cross-protocol attack leveraging SSLv2 export ciphers to decrypt TLS sessions, and FREAK (CVE-2015-0204) forcing RSA export-grade key exchange. Addresses BEAST (CVE-2011-3389) exploiting CBC IV predictability in TLS 1.0, CRIME (CVE-2012-4929) and BREACH targeting TLS-level and HTTP-level compression oracles respectively, and Heartbleed (CVE-2014-0160) for OpenSSL memory disclosure. Covers certificate validation bypass techniques for applications with improper hostname verification or chain validation, certificate pinning bypass using Frida and Objection for mobile application interception, HSTS bypass via NTP manipulation and subdomain exploitation, TLS 1.3 0-RTT replay attacks against non-idempotent endpoints, mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication attacks including client certificate theft and relay, and Certificate Transparency log monitoring for reconnaissance. Primary tooling includes testssl.sh for comprehensive TLS auditing, sslyze for Python-integrated scanning, sslscan for quick cipher enumeration, and tlsx for high-speed TLS probing at scale. Maps to CWE-295 (Improper Certificate Validation), CWE-319 (Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information), and CWE-757 (Selection of Less-Secure Algorithm During Negotiation).
Time-of-Check / Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition exploitation methodology across binary, kernel, filesystem, web, and container layers. Covers symbolic-link races (open/access/stat split), file-descriptor races, fopen/realpath traversal races, /proc and procfs races, FUSE-backed slow-fs races to widen the window, ptrace and signal races, kernel double-fetch / userspace pointer races, container/runc/symlink escape primitives, kubernetes admission/authz TOCTOU, web auth-vs-authz TOCTOU, JWT-claim TOCTOU at gateway vs service, payment/idempotency races, and modern race-amplification techniques (single-packet attack, slow loris, FUSE pause, cgroup freeze, scheduler shaping). Use when you've identified a 'check then act' pattern in code, when fuzzing for race conditions, or when exploiting concurrency bugs in privileged binaries / kernel / orchestrators.
SnailSploit· 5d agoCommunity