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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 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 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.”
“we exploited the human factor”
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”
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”
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”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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.”
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
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.”
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”
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.”
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
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”
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”
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”
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.”