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A comprehensive guide covering methodologies for conducting authorized penetration testing across major cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, and GCP. It details the shared responsibility model, techniques for exploiting IAM misconfigurations, testing for SSRF vulnerabilities to cloud metadata services, and utilizing industry tools like Pacu and ScoutSuite. Findings are mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK Cloud matrix for robust reporting.

A comprehensive guide to simulating Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attacks using industry-standard tools like Bettercap, Ettercap, and mitmproxy. This technique is strictly for authorized penetration testing environments to assess cryptographic controls, validate TLS certificate pinning, and test network defense mechanisms against ARP/DNS spoofing and sniffing.

A comprehensive framework for assessing network security posture. This skill guides the tester through the entire penetration testing lifecycle, from reconnaissance and host discovery (using tools like Nmap) to service enumeration, vulnerability identification (CVEs), and controlled exploitation (Metasploit). It is essential for validating firewall rules, ensuring compliance (e.g., PCI-DSS), and stress-testing critical infrastructure security.

This comprehensive skill guides users through designing and executing advanced social engineering penetration tests. It covers simulating real-world attacks, including phishing (email), vishing (voice), smishing (SMS), and physical pretexting. The goal is to measure an organization's human security resilience, identify training gaps, and test security controls across multiple vectors using tools like GoPhish and SET.

This skill guides the setup of Host-Based Intrusion Detection Systems (HIDS) using industry-standard tools like Wazuh, OSSEC, or AIDE. It covers essential security practices, including File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) for critical directories, monitoring system calls, detecting configuration changes, and identifying rootkits. It is crucial for meeting regulatory compliance requirements (e.g., PCI DSS) and significantly enhancing overall endpoint security posture.

This skill outlines methods and rules for detecting container drift—the unauthorized deviation of a running container from its original, immutable image state. By monitoring binary execution, filesystem writes, and configuration changes using tools like Falco and Kubernetes security context controls, users can investigate potential compromises, validate immutable infrastructure controls, and enhance overall container security posture.

This skill provides methods and rules for detecting advanced container escape attempts, where an adversary attempts to break out of container isolation. Detection relies on monitoring critical system activities such as namespace manipulation, capability abuse (e.g., CAP_SYS_ADMIN), kernel exploits, and access to sensitive host paths. Tools like Falco, Sysdig, and eBPF are leveraged to monitor syscalls and process behavior in real-time, crucial for security incident response and threat hunting in containerized environments like Kubernetes or Docker.

This skill provides comprehensive guidance on detecting network reconnaissance and port scanning activities using industry-standard IDS/IPS systems like Suricata and Snort. It covers various scanning techniques (e.g., SYN, FIN, NULL, Xmas scans, UDP sweeps) and advanced detection methods, including signature matching, threshold-based alerting, and traffic anomaly analysis to identify tools like Nmap and Masscan.

A comprehensive skill for detecting early-stage ransomware indicators before data encryption occurs. It utilizes advanced network detection tools such as Zeek and Suricata, combined with SIEM correlation rules and threat intelligence feeds. This method monitors the entire pre-encryption kill chain, identifying precursor behaviors like initial access broker activity, Cobalt Strike C2 beaconing, credential harvesting (e.g., Mimikatz signatures), and data staging attempts, enabling timely incident response and containment.

A comprehensive guide to detecting sophisticated rootkit activity and persistent threats that evade standard security tools (like Task Manager or EDR). Techniques include cross-view process analysis, identifying System Service Descriptor Table (SSDT) hooks, kernel module analysis, and network connection forensics using tools like Volatility. Use this when standard monitoring fails, and deep system integrity checks are required.

A comprehensive guide for threat hunters and incident responders to detect WMI-based persistence mechanisms (MITRE T1546.003). It details the analysis of Sysmon Event IDs 19, 20, and 21, cross-referencing these events with root\subscription namespaces and using tools like Autoruns and SIEM analysis for robust detection.

Executes authorized, advanced attack simulations against Active Directory environments to identify critical misconfigurations, weak credentials, and exploitable trust relationships. Utilizing industry tools like BloodHound, Mimikatz, and Impacket, this process simulates complex attacks such as Kerberoasting, Golden Ticket forging, and domain compromise path analysis, helping organizations validate their security posture against real-world threats.