Hands-On Red Team Tactics

Cobalt Strike listeners

First, start the Cobalt Strike team server and connect to it. Once we have the interface up and running, we will start a listener. A listener is a handler that handles all the incoming connections. To do this, go to the Cobalt Strike menu and choose Listeners, as shown in the following image:

This will open a new window where we create a name for this listener. Next, we have to choose the payload. Cobalt Strike has two kinds of listeners:

• Beacon: Beacon-based listeners will listen or connect to the connections coming from the beacon payload. We will learn more about this in the later part of this chapter.
• Foreign