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Dark Side Ops: Custom Penetration Testing

Silent Break Security | March 28 - 29



Overview

Dark Side Ops has now been updated to include even more sophisticated red-teaming tactics, stealthy application white-listing bypasses, configuration and maintenance of covert C2 infrastructure, and obscure techniques used by real-world attackers to escalate privileges and pillage an environment for sensitive data. Having problems with the latest AV, SIEM, endpoint monitoring, or logging fill-in-the-blank tool? Come to the Dark Side Ops.

Blackhat hackers penetrate enterprise networks in the flash of an eye, ravage endpoints for sensitive data, and silently exfiltrate the keys to your kingdom without ever popping an AV alert, flagging the SIEM, or being blocked by the proxy. Dark Side Ops: Custom Penetration Testing enables participants to "break through" to the next level by removing their dependence on 3rd-party penetration testing tools, allowing for outside-the-box thinking and custom tool development leveraging the latest in API abuse and advanced code execution techniques.

Participants are provided with hands-on experience into the black hat techniques currently used by hackers to bypass network-based enterprise intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS), layer 7 web proxies, and data loss prevention (DLP) solutions. The custom approach doesn't stop there. Participants learn advanced evasion techniques of corporate host-based countermeasures including antivirus and application white-listing solutions by developing, compiling, and deploying custom backdoors, payloads, and persistence deep into protected enterprise networks.

At the end of this course students will be able to:
  • Build custom payload droppers, beaconing backdoors, and interactive shells.
  • Conduct highly targeted and sophisticated custom client-side and social engineering attacks.
  • Escalate workstation and network privileges without an exploit.
  • Bypass defensive host and network defense countermeasures such as anti-virus applications, firewalls, IDS, IPS, SIEMs, and strict egress filtering.
  • Establish custom, stealthy persistence in a target network.
  • Pivot undetected throughout a network like a pro using port redirection, tunneling, and proxying.
  • Exfiltrate data from a target network using custom applications and network monitoring evasion techniques.
  • Compile and deploy an advanced, custom HTTP beaconing payload developed internally by the trainers and used regularly on engagements to effectively infiltrate company networks.

Participants will receive source code to a variety of offensive tools, including custom shells, backdoors, C2 listening posts, and social engineering exploitation techniques. To reinforce the knowledge provided by the instruction, participants will complete labs throughout the day, where the coding skills, custom payload delivery, and advanced pivoting techniques from course intrusion will all be necessary.

Go custom or go home! :)

Who Should Take this Course

Dark Side Ops: Custom Penetration Testing is ideal for offensive security enthusiasts ready to take their skills beyond tool, script, or fill-in-the-blank penetration testing framework dependence. While basic programming knowledge is helpful, l33t programming skills are not necessary to enjoy this course. If you're interested in being able to build or modify custom offensive tools to bypass the latest offensive countermeasures, this course is for you. This course is equal parts attack/exploit, malware coding/programming, and hands-on lab environment. Participants will not leave this course disappointed.

Student Requirements

Students should have at least:
  • A medium level of systems administration experience using Windows or Linux.
  • Some experience with penetration testing techniques or frameworks (Metasploit, Core Impact, etc.).
  • Some experience with programming (C++ or Python preferred).

What Students Should Bring

  • Laptop with administrator access to allow for modifying network configuration, sniffing traffic, etc.
  • Laptop with VMware Workstation or Player preinstalled
  • Laptop capable of running two (preferably three) virtual machines simultaneously using either VMWare Workstation or Player

What Students Will Be Provided With

  • TONS of custom code/tools
  • Custom persistence techniques
  • Course documentation and labs
  • Course virtual machines

Trainers

Brady Bloxham is founder and Principal Security Consultant at Silent Break Security, where he focuses on providing advanced, custom penetration testing services. Brady started his career working for various three letter agencies, where he earned multiple awards for exceptional performance in conducting classified network operations. Brady stays current in the information security field by writing custom malware, researching new persistence and code injection techniques, and providing training on advanced, stealthy attack methodologies. Brady has publicly released many tools, including Throwback (a custom beaconing backdoor), and presented his research at DEF CON, DerbyCon, and various other security conferences. Brady also maintains the PwnOS project, provides training on advanced red teaming tactics and holds several highly respected industry certifications.