Mod_Rewrite for Red Team Infrastructure
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Setting Up Infrastructure for a Red Team Engagement
Setting up infrastructure for a Red Team engagement can be both time-consuming and challenging. Jeff Dimmock and Steve Borosh have put in significant effort to simplify this process and make it more transparent.
They delivered an excellent presentation
They delivered an excellent presentation that covered the basics of establishing effective Red Team infrastructure. As part of this initiative, they created a wiki. One of the most fascinating aspects of the tradecraft shared in this presentation and on Jeff's blog is their innovative use of apache2’s mod_rewrite functionality. Mod_Rewrite is extremely powerful for several reasons: It can be utilized to obscure the actual location of your Teamserver.
It can be utilized to
It can be utilized to avoid detection by Incident Response teams.
It can be used to redirect mobile users
It can be used to redirect mobile users away from a payload to a fake login portal in order to capture their credentials.
It can be used to block specific IP addresses
It can be utilized to block certain IP addresses from your teamserver, which helps in incident response (IR) evasion.
It can be used to control Malleable C2 traffic
It can be used to restrict your Malleable C2 traffic solely to the Teamserver. During a Red Team engagement, there are typically several team servers and multiple redirectors positioned in front of each team server. If a defender detects and blocks one of the redirectors, it should be straightforward to recreate it.
However, manually configuring mod_rewrite
However, manually configuring mod_rewrite rules can be intricate and take a considerable amount of time.
