A full scope security assessment defined
Phase I - Information Gathering and Vulnerability Detection
In Phase I, the ProactiveRISK team embarks on comprehensive information gathering and vulnerability detection. This crucial step involves collecting extensive data about the target's infrastructure, facilities, and personnel. Utilizing techniques such as Open Source Intelligence Gathering, the team acquires valuable insights into the target's people, facilities, and technical elements. By scrutinizing physical and logical security controls, foot traffic patterns, terrain features, and potential infiltration or exfiltration points, the team develops a thorough understanding of the target's security landscape.
Phase II - Information Analysis, Planning, and Weaponization
Building on the intelligence gathered in Phase I, Phase II focuses on in-depth information analysis, meticulous planning, and crafting weaponization strategies. Armed with a comprehensive understanding of the target, the ProactiveRISK team tailors their operation to exploit identified vulnerabilities effectively. This phase involves creating customized file payloads, configuring hardware trojans, acquiring social engineering disguises, and fabricating falsified personas or companies. Every detail is carefully planned to ensure precise execution of the operation.
Phase III - Attack and Penetration
In Phase III, the ProactiveRISK team launches the active phase of the operation with a comprehensive attack and penetration strategy. The team engages in various activities, including cloning badges, executing face-to-face social engineering tactics, analyzing cyber vulnerabilities, and planting hardware trojans for remote network persistence. These actions are designed to identify the most advantageous points of exploitation to achieve the CATSCAN operation's objectives.
Phase IV - Privilege Escalation and Exploitation
Phase IV, Privilege Escalation and Exploitation, focuses on gaining unauthorized access to target systems. The ProactiveRISK team "breaks in" by compromising servers, applications, and networks, employing methods to bypass physical controls like gates, fences, locks, radar, and motion detection systems. Additionally, they exploit target staff through social engineering techniques via face-to-face interactions, email, phone calls, faxes, or text messages. This stage sets the groundwork for further escalation and the installation phase.
Phase V - Installation
In Phase V, the ProactiveRISK team's objective is to establish persistent access within the target's systems. Building on the progress from the exploitation phase, the team creates a robust foothold by escalating privileges on compromised servers, installing malicious file payloads, utilizing physical key impressions, and bypassing lockpicked doors. The installation phase ensures lasting cyber and physical persistence within the target environment.
Phase VI - Command & Control
Phase VI, Command & Control, focuses on maintaining continuous access to the exploited systems. ProactiveRISK implements measures to ensure stable and reliable remote access, setting the stage for subsequent post-exploitation tasks and objectives, such as data exfiltration. On the physical and social fronts, the team manipulates individuals to circumvent physical barriers, creating backdoors into the facilities as part of their strategy.
Phase VII - Actions on Objective
In the final phase of the CATSCAN project, Phase VII, the ProactiveRISK team works diligently to accomplish the mission and meet the client’s objectives. Actions on objective span both cyber and physical domains, involving lateral movement across compromised systems and physical facilities. The team captures video, audio, and photographic evidence to support their findings and ultimately exfiltrates critically sensitive data, information, or physical assets as specified by the target.
In Phase I, the ProactiveRISK team embarks on comprehensive information gathering and vulnerability detection. This crucial step involves collecting extensive data about the target's infrastructure, facilities, and personnel. Utilizing techniques such as Open Source Intelligence Gathering, the team acquires valuable insights into the target's people, facilities, and technical elements. By scrutinizing physical and logical security controls, foot traffic patterns, terrain features, and potential infiltration or exfiltration points, the team develops a thorough understanding of the target's security landscape.
Phase II - Information Analysis, Planning, and Weaponization
Building on the intelligence gathered in Phase I, Phase II focuses on in-depth information analysis, meticulous planning, and crafting weaponization strategies. Armed with a comprehensive understanding of the target, the ProactiveRISK team tailors their operation to exploit identified vulnerabilities effectively. This phase involves creating customized file payloads, configuring hardware trojans, acquiring social engineering disguises, and fabricating falsified personas or companies. Every detail is carefully planned to ensure precise execution of the operation.
Phase III - Attack and Penetration
In Phase III, the ProactiveRISK team launches the active phase of the operation with a comprehensive attack and penetration strategy. The team engages in various activities, including cloning badges, executing face-to-face social engineering tactics, analyzing cyber vulnerabilities, and planting hardware trojans for remote network persistence. These actions are designed to identify the most advantageous points of exploitation to achieve the CATSCAN operation's objectives.
Phase IV - Privilege Escalation and Exploitation
Phase IV, Privilege Escalation and Exploitation, focuses on gaining unauthorized access to target systems. The ProactiveRISK team "breaks in" by compromising servers, applications, and networks, employing methods to bypass physical controls like gates, fences, locks, radar, and motion detection systems. Additionally, they exploit target staff through social engineering techniques via face-to-face interactions, email, phone calls, faxes, or text messages. This stage sets the groundwork for further escalation and the installation phase.
Phase V - Installation
In Phase V, the ProactiveRISK team's objective is to establish persistent access within the target's systems. Building on the progress from the exploitation phase, the team creates a robust foothold by escalating privileges on compromised servers, installing malicious file payloads, utilizing physical key impressions, and bypassing lockpicked doors. The installation phase ensures lasting cyber and physical persistence within the target environment.
Phase VI - Command & Control
Phase VI, Command & Control, focuses on maintaining continuous access to the exploited systems. ProactiveRISK implements measures to ensure stable and reliable remote access, setting the stage for subsequent post-exploitation tasks and objectives, such as data exfiltration. On the physical and social fronts, the team manipulates individuals to circumvent physical barriers, creating backdoors into the facilities as part of their strategy.
Phase VII - Actions on Objective
In the final phase of the CATSCAN project, Phase VII, the ProactiveRISK team works diligently to accomplish the mission and meet the client’s objectives. Actions on objective span both cyber and physical domains, involving lateral movement across compromised systems and physical facilities. The team captures video, audio, and photographic evidence to support their findings and ultimately exfiltrates critically sensitive data, information, or physical assets as specified by the target.