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Defense Evasion
The main idea of this chapter is simple – know your tooling. It can be very tempting to start pulling fresh tooling from GitHub after getting an initial foothold on the target machine, looking for low-hanging fruit and quick wins. It may work well in some training labs to learn about attacking concepts; however, during real engagement, a mature opponent can easily detect your malicious activity. There are quite a lot of professionally written tools for both defense and offense, not to mention C2 frameworks, vendor EDRs, and so on.
This chapter is not a fully comprehensive guide on how to evade all possible detection. Evasion is a constantly evolving game between the sword and the shield. Several factors can influence the way ...
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