Cobalt Strike
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What is Cobalt Strike?
Cobalt Strike is a commercial, full-featured penetration testing platform marketed towards red teams. It allows an attacker to deploy agents on victim machines to simulate advanced threats, conduct network reconnaissance, execute code, and steal credentials. It is often used post-exploitation to move laterally within a network and establish persistent access. Due to its versatility and effectiveness, it is also popular among malicious actors, including ransomware groups and APTs.
What other technologies are related to Cobalt Strike?
Cobalt Strike Competitor Technologies
Metasploit
Metasploit is a penetration testing framework that provides similar capabilities to Cobalt Strike, such as exploit execution and post-exploitation modules.
Empire
Empire is a post-exploitation framework, built on PowerShell, that offers similar capabilities for maintaining access and lateral movement within a compromised network.
Sliver
Sliver is a Go-based cross-platform adversary simulation/red team framework, offering similar functionalities to Cobalt Strike for command and control.
Mythic
Mythic is a collaborative, multi-platform, red teaming framework focused on providing a customizable command and control environment. It is a direct competitor.
Covenant
Covenant is a .NET command and control framework designed to be a collaborative red team platform. It is a direct competitor to Cobalt Strike.
PowerShell Empire
PowerShell Empire (often referred to as Empire) is a post-exploitation framework, built on PowerShell, that offers similar capabilities for maintaining access and lateral movement within a compromised network. It is a direct competitor.
Brute Ratel
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Brute Ratel C4 is a Command and Control Center that automates most penetration testing or red teaming tasks. It is a direct competitor.
Havoc
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Havoc is a modern and flexible Red Team C2 framework. It is a direct competitor.
Number of organizations that mention technology
765
Cobalt Strike
3,600
Metasploit
171
Empire
76
Sliver
82
Mythic
58
Covenant
77
PowerShell Empire
19
Brute Ratel
26
Havoc
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Cobalt Strike Complementary Technologies
Bloodhound
BloodHound is an Active Directory reconnaissance tool that helps identify attack paths. Cobalt Strike can utilize these paths for lateral movement, making it a complementary tool.
PowerSploit
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PowerSploit is a collection of PowerShell modules that can be used for various post-exploitation tasks. Cobalt Strike can leverage PowerSploit modules through its Beacon payload.
Mimikatz
Mimikatz is a tool for extracting passwords and other credentials from memory. Cobalt Strike often uses Mimikatz for credential harvesting during post-exploitation.
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Which job functions commonly mention Cobalt Strike?
Penetration Tester
7.1% of all Penetration Tester jobs mention Cobalt Strike
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SIEM Engineer
0.5% of all SIEM Engineer jobs mention Cobalt Strike
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Security Engineer
0.4% of all Security Engineer jobs mention Cobalt Strike
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Application Security Engineer
0.3% of all Application Security Engineer jobs mention Cobalt Strike
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Engineer
1786 Engineer jobs mention Cobalt Strike
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Which organizations are mentioning Cobalt Strike?
CrowdStrike
Scientific and Technical Services
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