CRTO
Altered Security

Certified Red Team Operator

Intermediate 24hr practical exam Pass: Passing $399

Red team operations with Cobalt Strike — C2, beacon ops, evasion, persistence.

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IssuerAltered Security
Format24hr practical exam
Duration48 hours
Pass ScorePassing
Full Syllabus
C2 Infrastructure Setup 15%
Redirectors, HTTPS listeners, domain fronting, Cobalt Strike teamserver setup
Initial Access & Phishing 15%
Spearphishing, macro weaponization, HTML smuggling, pretexting delivery
C2 Operations 20%
Cobalt Strike beacon management, sleep obfuscation, malleable C2 profiles
Internal Reconnaissance 15%
Host and network discovery from beacon, AD enumeration, share hunting
Lateral Movement 15%
Pass-the-Hash, over-pass-the-hash, beacon spawning on remote hosts
OPSEC & Evasion 10%
Process injection OPSEC, artifact kit, resource kit, parent PID spoofing
Data Exfiltration 10%
DNS exfil, HTTPS staging, covert channel awareness, DLP bypass