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JekHyde and Carl physical penetration engagement INVOLVES lookalike domain

The engagement involved a lookalike domain used in the targeted phishing email.

Explicit Confidence 99% · JekHyde EP 41 Details

“Instead of targetcompany.com it was targetcompany-communityresources.com.”

JekHyde · offsets 19599–19672

JekHyde and Carl physical penetration engagement INVOLVES RFID visitor badge

The team was issued RFID visitor badges after being admitted to the headquarters.

Explicit Confidence 99% · JekHyde EP 41 Details

“we were given visitor badges which were RFID visitor badges”

JekHyde · offsets 26372–26431

JekHyde and Carl physical penetration engagement INVOLVES social engineering

The engagement used social engineering to obtain trusted access to the facility.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 41 Details

“A Red Team assessment.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 11883–11905

“we exploited the human factor”

JekHyde · offsets 42696–42725

JekHyde and Carl physical penetration engagement INVOLVES domain administrator access

The engagement resulted in the team obtaining domain administrator access to the network.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 41 Details

“this team successfully got in, put the rogue device in, and gained full access to the network”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 41871–41964

JekHyde and Carl physical penetration engagement INVOLVES rogue device

The engagement involved planting a rogue device in the company's network.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 41 Details

“The objective is to break into this manufacturing plant in a Spanish-speaking country, plant a rogue device”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 13192–13299

JekHyde and Carl physical penetration engagement INVOLVES physical penetration testing

The engagement was a permitted physical penetration test of a manufacturing facility.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 41 Details

“The objective is to break into this manufacturing plant”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 13192–13247

JekHyde and Carl physical penetration engagement INVOLVES JekHyde

The engagement involved JekHyde as the physical penetration tester and social engineer.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 41 Details

“The team consists of JekHyde and Carl. Jek is a physical penetration tester.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 13499–13576

JekHyde and Carl physical penetration engagement INVOLVES pretext

The engagement involved impersonating corporate employees and constructing a charitable-work pretext.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 41 Details

“This is just to build up the pretext.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 20596–20633

JekHyde and Carl physical penetration engagement INVOLVES Carl

The engagement involved Carl as the hardware and rogue-device specialist.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 41 Details

“The team consists of JekHyde and Carl.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 13499–13537

JekHyde and Carl physical penetration engagement LEADS_TO domain administrator access

Monitoring recovered credentials that enabled pivots into multiple systems and eventual escalation to domain administrator access.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Carl EP 41 Details

“credentials were recovered that allowed us to pivot into multiple systems and then we eventually escalated up to DA”

Carl · offsets 41523–41638

JekHyde MEMBER_OF Red Team

JekHyde says she works with a Red Team of technical hackers.

Explicit Confidence 99% · JekHyde EP 41 Details

“I work with a Red Team of technical hackers”

JekHyde · offsets 5500–5543

Googleplex PART_OF Google

The Googleplex is described as Google's main headquarters.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 41 Details

“There it was, the main headquarters for Google. Actually, they call it the Googleplex”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 352–438

JekHyde USES physical reconnaissance

JekHyde conducted on-site reconnaissance of the facility after arriving in-country.

Explicit Confidence 99% · JekHyde EP 41 Details

“we performed on-site reconnaissance”

JekHyde · offsets 16517–16552

Carl USES passive packet capture

Carl initially performed passive listening at layers 2 and 3 rather than assigning the device an IP address.

Explicit Confidence 96% · Carl EP 41 Details

“It’s kind of a gamble based on within that one or two minutes. I’m looking at the traffic”

Carl · offsets 35696–35785

JekHyde USES phishing

JekHyde and Carl sent a targeted phishing email to the employee they selected as a mark.

Explicit Confidence 99% · JekHyde EP 41 Details

“we put a phish together, a phishing e-mail”

JekHyde · offsets 19489–19531

Jack Rhysider USES Google Maps

Jack and a co-worker used Google Maps to locate Google's headquarters during an unscheduled visit.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 41 Details

“A co-worker and I used Google Maps and found it.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 302–350

JekHyde USES lookalike domain

The phishing email used a domain resembling the target company's domain.

Explicit Confidence 99% · JekHyde EP 41 Details

“with a domain that looked a lot like our target company’s domain”

JekHyde · offsets 19532–19596

JekHyde USES social engineering

JekHyde identifies herself as a social engineer and uses social engineering during physical access engagements.

Explicit Confidence 99% · JekHyde EP 41 Details

“I am a physical penetration tester and social engineer.”

JekHyde · offsets 5443–5498

Carl USES TTL manipulation

Carl changed the TTL so the device would appear to be a Windows workstation rather than Linux.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Carl EP 41 Details

“Then I’ll also change the TTL so if I’m pinged, I’ll also look like a Windows workstation”

Carl · offsets 36224–36313

rogue device USES ODROID-C2

The rogue device used in the engagement was an ODROID-C2 mini-computer.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 41 Details

“The rogue device that Carl pulls out is an ODROID-C2.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 33655–33708

JekHyde USES physical penetration testing

JekHyde identifies herself as a physical penetration tester and performs physical penetration testing.

Explicit Confidence 99% · JekHyde EP 41 Details

“I am a physical penetration tester and social engineer.”

JekHyde · offsets 5443–5498

JekHyde USES social media reconnaissance

JekHyde researched LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and other online sources to identify a suitable mark.

Explicit Confidence 99% · JekHyde EP 41 Details

“I looked at LinkedIn, and Facebook, and Instagram’s a big one”

JekHyde · offsets 17860–17921

Carl USES tcpdump

Carl used tcpdump to observe traffic on candidate network ports.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 41 Details

“Carl is using a program called tcpdump to watch what traffic is being broadcast”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 34668–34747

Carl USES rogue device

Carl carried, connected, and planted the rogue device during the engagement.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 41 Details

“Carl had a rogue device and a laptop”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 27708–27744

ODROID-C2 USES Linux

The ODROID-C2 was described as running Linux.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 41 Details

“runs Linux. It’s kind of like a Raspberry Pi.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 33766–33812