A full scope security assessment defined
Phase I - Information Gathering and Vulnerability Detection
In the initial stage, Phase I, the ProactiveRISK team undertakes thorough information gathering and vulnerability detection. This critical step involves collecting relevant data about the target's infrastructure, facilities, and employees. To accomplish this, the team employs various techniques, including Open Source Intelligence Gathering, which provides valuable insights into the target's people, facilities, and technical elements. By examining physical and logical security controls, foot traffic patterns, terrain features, and infiltration or exfiltration points, the team gains a comprehensive understanding of the target's security landscape.
Phase II - Information Analysis, Planning, and Weaponization
Building upon the intelligence gathered in Phase I, Phase II focuses on information analysis, meticulous planning, and weaponization strategies. With a deep understanding of the target, the ProactiveRISK team customizes their operation to exploit the identified vulnerabilities effectively. This phase entails crafting tailored file payloads, configuring hardware trojans, acquiring social engineering costumes, and creating falsified personas or companies. The team meticulously prepares their arsenal, ensuring they are well-equipped to execute the operation with precision.
Phase III - Attack and Penetration
In Phase III, the ProactiveRISK team initiates the active phase of the operation, launching a comprehensive attack and penetration strategy. Their actions are specifically designed to achieve the CATSCAN operation's objectives. The team undertakes a range of activities, including physically cloning badges, engaging in face-to-face social engineering tactics, analyzing cyber vulnerabilities, and planting hardware trojans for remote network persistence. Through these actions, they identify the most opportune avenues for exploitation.
Phase IV - Privilege Escalation and Exploitation
Phase IV, known as privilege escalation and exploitation, revolves around gaining unauthorized access to target systems. At this stage, the ProactiveRISK team endeavors to "break in" by compromising servers, applications, and networks. They employ various methods to bypass physical controls such as gates, fences, locks, radar, and motion detection systems. Moreover, the team skillfully exploits target staff using social engineering techniques, whether face-to-face, through email, phone calls, faxes, or text messages. Exploitation serves as a crucial preparation step for the subsequent escalation and installation phase.
Phase V - Installation
In Phase V, the primary objective is to establish persistence within the target's systems. The ProactiveRISK team builds on the progress made during the exploitation phase to create a strong foothold. They achieve this through privilege escalation on compromised servers, installation of malicious file payloads, utilization of physical key impressions, and bypassing lockpicked doors. The installation stage encompasses both cyber-persistence and physical persistence tactics, ensuring the team maintains a lasting presence within the target environment.
Phase VI - Command & Control
Phase VI, Command & Control, centers around maintaining persistent access to the exploited systems. ProactiveRISK employs cyber-focused measures to ensure stable and reliable remote access. This stage prepares the groundwork for subsequent post-exploitation tasks and goals, including data exfiltration. On the physical and social front, the team manipulates individuals to enable circumvention of physical barriers, creating backdoors into the facilities as part of their strategy.
Phase VII - Actions on Objective
During the final phase of the CATSCAN project, Phase VII, the ProactiveRISK team works diligently to fulfill the mission and achieve the objectives agreed upon with the client. Actions on objective encompass both cyber and physical domains, involving lateral movement throughout the cyber environment and physical facilities. The team pivots from compromised systems and breached physical security controls, capturing video, audio, and photographic evidence to support their findings. Ultimately, the team exfiltrates critically sensitive data, information, or physical assets as determined by the target.
In the initial stage, Phase I, the ProactiveRISK team undertakes thorough information gathering and vulnerability detection. This critical step involves collecting relevant data about the target's infrastructure, facilities, and employees. To accomplish this, the team employs various techniques, including Open Source Intelligence Gathering, which provides valuable insights into the target's people, facilities, and technical elements. By examining physical and logical security controls, foot traffic patterns, terrain features, and infiltration or exfiltration points, the team gains a comprehensive understanding of the target's security landscape.
Phase II - Information Analysis, Planning, and Weaponization
Building upon the intelligence gathered in Phase I, Phase II focuses on information analysis, meticulous planning, and weaponization strategies. With a deep understanding of the target, the ProactiveRISK team customizes their operation to exploit the identified vulnerabilities effectively. This phase entails crafting tailored file payloads, configuring hardware trojans, acquiring social engineering costumes, and creating falsified personas or companies. The team meticulously prepares their arsenal, ensuring they are well-equipped to execute the operation with precision.
Phase III - Attack and Penetration
In Phase III, the ProactiveRISK team initiates the active phase of the operation, launching a comprehensive attack and penetration strategy. Their actions are specifically designed to achieve the CATSCAN operation's objectives. The team undertakes a range of activities, including physically cloning badges, engaging in face-to-face social engineering tactics, analyzing cyber vulnerabilities, and planting hardware trojans for remote network persistence. Through these actions, they identify the most opportune avenues for exploitation.
Phase IV - Privilege Escalation and Exploitation
Phase IV, known as privilege escalation and exploitation, revolves around gaining unauthorized access to target systems. At this stage, the ProactiveRISK team endeavors to "break in" by compromising servers, applications, and networks. They employ various methods to bypass physical controls such as gates, fences, locks, radar, and motion detection systems. Moreover, the team skillfully exploits target staff using social engineering techniques, whether face-to-face, through email, phone calls, faxes, or text messages. Exploitation serves as a crucial preparation step for the subsequent escalation and installation phase.
Phase V - Installation
In Phase V, the primary objective is to establish persistence within the target's systems. The ProactiveRISK team builds on the progress made during the exploitation phase to create a strong foothold. They achieve this through privilege escalation on compromised servers, installation of malicious file payloads, utilization of physical key impressions, and bypassing lockpicked doors. The installation stage encompasses both cyber-persistence and physical persistence tactics, ensuring the team maintains a lasting presence within the target environment.
Phase VI - Command & Control
Phase VI, Command & Control, centers around maintaining persistent access to the exploited systems. ProactiveRISK employs cyber-focused measures to ensure stable and reliable remote access. This stage prepares the groundwork for subsequent post-exploitation tasks and goals, including data exfiltration. On the physical and social front, the team manipulates individuals to enable circumvention of physical barriers, creating backdoors into the facilities as part of their strategy.
Phase VII - Actions on Objective
During the final phase of the CATSCAN project, Phase VII, the ProactiveRISK team works diligently to fulfill the mission and achieve the objectives agreed upon with the client. Actions on objective encompass both cyber and physical domains, involving lateral movement throughout the cyber environment and physical facilities. The team pivots from compromised systems and breached physical security controls, capturing video, audio, and photographic evidence to support their findings. Ultimately, the team exfiltrates critically sensitive data, information, or physical assets as determined by the target.
