PowerShell Automation and Scripting for Cybersecurity: Hacking and defense for red and blue teamers

by Miriam C. Wiesner, Tanya Janca (Foreword by)

Overview

Take your cybersecurity skills to the next level with this comprehensive guide to PowerShell security! Whether you’re a red or blue teamer, you’ll gain a deep understanding of PowerShell’s security capabilities and how to use them.
After revisiting PowerShell basics and scripting fundamentals, you’ll dive into PowerShell Remoting and remote management technologies. You’ll learn how to configure and analyze Windows event logs and understand the most important event logs and IDs to monitor your environment. You’ll dig deeper into PowerShell’s capabilities to interact with the underlying system, Active Directory and Azure AD. Additionally, you’ll explore Windows internals including APIs and WMI, and how to run PowerShell without powershell.exe. You’ll uncover authentication protocols, enumeration, credential theft, and exploitation, to help mitigate risks in your environment, along with a red and blue team cookbook for day-to-day security tasks. Finally, you’ll delve into mitigations, including Just Enough Administration, AMSI, application control, and code signing, with a focus on configuration, risks, exploitation, bypasses, and best practices.
By the end of this book, you’ll have a deep understanding of how to employ PowerShell from both a red and blue team perspective.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781800569263
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	08/16/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	572
File size:	30 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

Miriam C. Wiesner is a senior security researcher at Microsoft, with over 15 years of experience in IT and IT security. She has held various positions, including administrator/system engineer, software developer, premier field engineer, program manager, security consultant, and pentester. She is also a renowned creator of open source tools based in PowerShell, including EventList and JEAnalyzer. She has been invited multiple times to present the research behind her tools at many international conferences, such as Black Hat (the US, Europe, and Asia), PSConfEU, and MITRE ATT&CK workshop. Outside of work, Miriam is a dedicated wife and mother, residing with her family near Nuremberg, Germany.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1. Getting Started with PowerShell
2. PowerShell Scripting Fundamentals
3. Exploring PowerShell Remote Management Technologies and PowerShell Remoting
4. Detection – Auditing and Monitoring
5. PowerShell Is Powerful – System and API Access
6. Active Directory – Attacks and Mitigation
7. Hacking the Cloud – Exploiting Azure Active Directory/Entra ID
8. Red Team Tasks and Cookbook
9. Blue Team Tasks and Cookbook
10. Language Modes and Just Enough Administration (JEA)
11. AppLocker, Application Control, and Code Signing
12. Exploring the Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI)
13. What Else? – Further Mitigations and Resources