Overview
Target Audience
Prerequisites
- Enumerate, investigate, target and exploit weaknesses in an organisation’s network devices, online presence, and people.
- Understand complex vulnerabilities and chained exploitation processes in order to gain access and perform restriction bypasses, privilege escalation, data exfiltration and gain long term persistence in: Web facing services, databases, Windows, Active Directory, *nix, container-based, VPN, VLAN, VoIP and Cloud environments.
- Use compromised devices to pivot onto other private networks and/or access services protected by whitelisting or only accessible via the loopback interface.
Course Outline
- Advanced topics in network scanning
- Understanding & exploiting IPv6 Targets
- Advanced OSINT Data gathering
- Exploiting DVCS (git)
- Owning Continuous Integration (CI) servers
- Deserialization Attacks (Java, Python, Node, PHP)
- Mysql
- Postgres
- Oracle
- MongoDB
- Windows Enumeration and Configuration Issues
- Windows Desktop ‘Breakout’ and AppLocker Bypass Techniques (Win 10)
- Local Privilege Escalation
- A/V & AMSI Bypass techniques
- Offensive PowerShell Tools and Techniques
- Post Exploitation Tips, Tools and Methodology
- Active Directory Delegation Reviews and Pwnage (Win 2016 server)
- Pass the Hash/Ticket Pivoting and WinRM Certificates
- Cross Domain and Forest attacks
- Pivoting, Port Forwarding and Lateral Movement Techniques
- Persistence and backdooring techniques (Golden Ticket, DCSync, LOLBAS)
- Command and Control (C2) Frameworks
- Linux Vulnerabilities and Configuration Issues
- Treasure hunting via enumeration
- File Share/SSH Hacks
- X11 Vulnerabilities
- Restricted Shells Breakouts
- Breaking Hardened Web Servers
- Local Privilege Escalation
- MongoDB exploitation
- TTY hacks, Pivoting
- Gaining root via misconfigurations
- Kernel Exploitation
- Post Exploitation and credentials harvesting
- Breaking and Abusing Docker
- Exploiting Kubernetes environments
- Breaking out of kubernetes containers
- AWS/Azure/GCP specific attacks
- Storage Misconfigurations
- Credentials, API’s and token Abuse
- IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, CaaS and Serverless exploitation
- Azure AD attacks
- Exploiting Insecure VPN Configuration
- VLAN Concepts
- VLAN Hopping Attacks
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