[ UPDATE]  The tool has been re-written.  New details can be found here: http://www.shellntel.com/blog/2015/9/9/update-creating-your-own-private-botnet-for-scanning Often while scanning a network with nmap or other similar tools, at some point a NIDS or firewall will detect and block me.  This is irritating.  I wondered, what would happen if I could route my scans/attacks through a series of proxy […]

The shellntel team attended Circle City Con this year and participated in their second annual Capture The Flag tournament.  While there was many great things at the conference, this event held our attention for its majority as we spent the majority of our time solving the puzzles.  In the end, we ended up taking second […]

About six years ago, social engineering penetration tests became the norm for the A-Team.  In many of these tests, our team would attempt as many as 10-20 unique exploits against various applications and operating system functions.  This often included exploits against Flash, Java, Adobe Reader, MS Office and IE.  While one or two exploit attempts […]

In my many years of participating in CCDC, I keep running into the same problem.  If you've red teamed for one of these events, I'm sure you've probably encountered similar issues.  You've gotten a shell on a system, you've even installed a backdoor either through a bind listener, or through a reverse connection that calls back periodically. However, savvy […]