As we begin this course,
let's spend a minute to understand our target environment.
Within this course, we're going to follow the role of a penetration tester that
is tasked to conduct a penetration test on globomantics.com.
This is a closed‑box penetration test, so we have
no knowledge of the environment.
Globomantics is a Windows‑only environment, and the
administrators leverage PowerShell really heavily.
Hence, it's freely enabled across the environment.
The key focus that we're going to look at is to leverage
PowerShell across the environment to get as far as possible
and obtain valuable information.
We also know that Globomantics has connections into some of
its partner companies such as GloboTicket. Perhaps there are
ways to traverse the networks,
Perhaps they hare valuable information residing there.
These are the type of questions that we need to ask ourselves
as we progress through the environment.
Now we already have initial access to a corporate PC that resides
within Globomantics. This PC has been infected with malware that
ultimately provided us with a reverse shell.
It is a low‑level PC with limited access rights. From here,
we need to perform reconnaissance activities to enumerate
and escalate our privileges.
So within the course, we're going to look at leveraging
Empire, and we're going to look at using PowerSploit from the
PC that we have initial access to.
So let's get started with our penetration test.