Hands-On Red Team Tactics

Beacon console

The beacon menu does not show us all the features that are available. However, Cobalt Strike also provides us with the beacon console so that we can fully utilize its features. The beacon console can be opened by right-clicking on a host and choosing the Interact option:

This will open the console from which we can command the beacon to perform the desired actions. Before we run commands, however, we must first set the sleep time of the beacon to zero, so that it changes its state to interactive from asynchronous, as we want to receive the output of the command in real time. We can do this by typing sleep 0:

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