Advanced Infrastructure Hacking – Fast Track

Course Description

Our Advanced Infrastructure Hacking course is designed for those who wish to push their knowledge. Whether you are Pen Testing, Red Teaming or trying to get a better understanding of managing vulnerabilities in your environment, understanding advanced hacking techniques is critical.

This course teaches the audience a wealth of advanced Pen Testing techniques, from the neat, to the new, to the ridiculous, to compromise modern Operating Systems, networking devices and Cloud environments. From hacking Domain Controllers to local root, to VLAN Hopping, to VoIP Hacking, to compromising Cloud account keys, we have got everything covered.

Attendees will be able to :

  • 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.

Students will receive access to NoSoSecure hacking lab, not just during the course but for 30 days after the course too. This gives Delegates plenty of time to practice the concepts taught in the course. The lab contains a wide variety of challenges from local privilege escalation to VLAN hopping etc. Numerous scripts and tools will also be provided during the course, along with Delegate handouts.

This is the fast-track edition (3-day) of a course which normally takes 5 days. Each topic will be covered, however not as in-depth as in the 5-day edition

Course contents

PV4/IPV6 SCANNING, OSINT

  • Advanced topics in network scanning
  • Understanding & exploiting IPv6 Targets
  • Advanced OSINT Data gathering

WEB TECHNOLOGIES

  • Exploiting DVCS (git)
  • Owning Continuous Integration (CI) servers
  • Deserialization Attacks (Java, Python, Node, PHP)
  • Dishonerable Mentions (SSL/TLS, Shellshock)

HACKING DATABASE SERVERS

  • Mysql
  • Postgres
  • Oracle
  • MongoDB

WINDOWS EXPLOITATION

  • 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
  • GPO based exploit
  • Constrained and Unconstrained delegation attack
  • Post Exploitation Tips, Tools and Methodology

AD EXPLOITATION

  • Active Directory Delegation Reviews and Pwnage (Win 2012 server)
  • Pass the Hash/Ticket Pivoting and WinRM Certificates
  • Pivoting, Port Forwarding and Lateral Movement Techniques
  • Persistence and backdooring techniques (Golden Ticket, DCSync, LOLBAS)

LINUX EXPLOITATION

  • 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

CONTAINER BREAKOUT

  • Breaking and Abusing Docker
  • Kubernetes Vulnerabilities
  • Post Exploitation and credentials harvesting

VPN EXPLOITATION

  • Exploiting Insecure VPN Configuration

VOIP ATTACK

  • VOIP Enumeration
  • VOIP Exploitation

VLAN ATTACK

  • VLAN Concepts
  • VLAN Hopping Attacks

CLOUD HACKING

  • AWS/Azure/GCP specific attacks
  • Storage Misconfigurations
  • Credentials, API’s and token Abuse
  • IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, CaaS and Serverless exploitation
  • Azure AD attacks

This is the fast-track edition (3-day) of a course which normally takes 5 days. Each topic will be covered, however not as in-depth as in the 5-day edition

Who should take this course?

System Administrators, SOC Analysts, Penetration Testers, Network Engineers, security enthusiasts and anyone who wants to take their skills to next level.

While prior pen testing experience is not a strict requirement, familiarity with both Linux and Windows command line syntax will be greatly beneficial and a reasonable technical understanding of computers and networking in general is assumed. Some hands-on experience with tools commonly used by hackers, such as Nmap, NetCat, or Metasploit, will also be beneficial, although, less advanced users can work their way up during the 30 days of complimentary lab access provided as part of the course.

The course is ideal for those preparing for CREST CCT (ICE), CHECK (CTL), TIGER SST and other similar industry certifications, as well as those who perform Penetration Testing on infrastructure as a day job and wish to add to their existing skill set.

Requirements

While prior pen testing experience is not a strict requirement, familiarity with both Linux and Windows command line syntax will be greatly beneficial and a reasonable technical understanding of computers and networking in general is assumed. Some hands-on experience with tools commonly used by hackers, such as Nmap, NetCat, or Metasploit, will also be beneficial, although, less advanced users can work their way up during the 30 days of complimentary lab access provided as part of the course.

What students should bring

The only requirement for this course is that you must bring your own laptop and have admin/root access on it. During the course, we will give you VPN access to our state-of-art Hacklab which is hosted in our data-center in the UK. Once you are connected to the lab, you will find all the relevant tools/VMs there. We also provide a dedicated Kali VM to each attendee on the hacklab, accessed using SSH. So, you don’t need to bring any VMs with you. All you need is admin access to install the VPN client and once connected, you are good to go!

Attendees may optionally come prepared with an OpenVPN client (e.g. OpenVPN Client for Windows, we suggest Tunnelblick for Mac, the OpenVPN client is often included natively for Linux but may need installing/updating) and
an SSH client (e.g. PuTTY for Windows, generally included natively for Linux/Mac) installed.

Trainer Biography

Anthony Webb is one of NotSoSecure’s Infrastructure Security Experts working from the UK. He manages a small team performing Penetration Testing for internal, external and cloud network infrastructure and web applications, as well as delivering Cyber Security Training from entry level through to Advanced Hacking courses for audiences from small classroom groups up to large global conferences such as Black Hat. Research projects include areas such as Cloud Infrastructure Security, Windows Domains and Unix networking security, and he Is looking forward to beginning work on a new open-source pen testing toolkit in the near future.

Ant first discovered coding on a BBC Micro in the early 90s at around six years old, by 10 he was building custom PCs, and he has remained a dedicated “tech geek” ever since. He has been working specifically in Information Security since 2015 and holds a number of specialist certifications such as OSCP (Offensive Security Certified Professional), CRT (CREST Registered Penetration Tester) and ACSAA / ACDA (Amazon Certified Solutions Architect / Developer Associate), as well as a BSc (Bachelor of Science degree) with First-Class Honours in Mathematics and Computer Science.

Social Media

Twitter: @antjwebb