Atomic Red Team Testing with Bluespawn
Bluespawn In this lab we will be using Bluespawn as an alternative for an EDR system. Normally full EDRs like Cylance, Symantec and Crowdstrike are very expensive and tend not to show up in classes like this. BlueSpawn will monitor the system for "weird" behavior and note it when it occurs. In this lab, we will be starting BlueSpawn and then running Atomic Red Team to trigger a lot of alerts. First, let’s disable Defender. Simply run the following from an Administrator PowerShell prompt: Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMonitoring $true This will disable Defender for this session. If you get angry red errors, that is Ok, it means Defender is not running. Let's get started by opening a Terminal as Administrator: Now, let's open a command Prompt: Next, let’s change directories to tools and start Bluespawn: C:\Users\adhd>cd \tools C:\tools>BLUESPAWN-client-x64.exe --monitor --level Cursory Now, let’s use Atomic Red Team to test the monitoring with BlueSpawn: Firs...