Replicate the Tactics and Techniques of an Embedded Advanced Adversary
Cobalt Strike is a threat emulation tool for cybersecurity professionals running Adversary Simulations and Red Team operations. Ideal for measuring your security operations program and incident response capabilities, Cobalt Strike utlilizes its powerful post-exploitation agents and covert channels in order to mimic an advanced threat actor quietly embedded in an IT network. No two engagements are alike with malleable C2 enabling network indicators to emulate different malware and versatile social engineering processes. Realistic scenarios, along with collaboration capabilities and robust reporting features create an enriched Blue Team training experience.
Advanced Adversary Simulations
While penetration tests focus on access, Cobalt Strike narrows in on the next steps of a threat actor, focusing on post-exploitation, lateral movement, and persistence.
Dynamic Red Team Engagements
Red Teams utilize Cobalt Strike to launch a realistic attack, gain persistence, and capture information to demonstrate potential attack paths, ultimately enhancing Security Operations.
All in an Adaptable Framework
Cobalt Strike is intentionally flexible to enable users to modify scripts, write their own, or create extensions to tailor their experience.
Key Features
Post Exploitation
Execute PowerShell scripts, log keystrokes, take screenshots, download files, and spawn other payloads with Beacon, Cobalt Strike's post-exploitation payload.
Advanced Adversary Simulation
Beacon simulates an embedded attacker, remaining undetected using asynchronous “low and slow” communication and a malleable Command and Control language that can alter network indicators to blend in with normal traffic or cloak its activities.
Browser Pivoting
Cobalt Strike offers a unique approach to man-in-the-browser attacks, hijacking all of a comprimised target's authenticated web sessions.
Intelligence Gathering
Cobalt Strike’s System Profiler can fingerprint a target and discover their internal IP address, applications, plugins, and version information.
Shared Sessions
A shared team server enhances Red Team operations and ensures collaborative engagements with real-time communication, host sharing, data capture, and more.
Logging and Reporting
Cobalt Strike has multiple reporting options for data synthesis and further analysis. Report types include:
- Activity
- Hosts
- Indicators of Compromise
- Sessions
- Social Engineering
- Tactics, Techniques, Procedures
Upfront Pricing
New Cobalt Strike licenses cost $5,900 per user for a one year license. Explore our pricing page to see how you can bundle Cobalt Strike with our penetration testing solution, Core Impact, for a discount.
Interoperability and Extensions

Core Impact
Organizations with both Cobalt Strike and Core Impact, Core Security's powerful penetration testing tool, can benefit from interoperability between these two solutions, like session passing and tunneling. Beacon can be deployed from within Core Impact and users can spawn a Core Impact agent from within Cobalt Strike.
Organizations with both Cobalt Strike and Core Impact, Core Security's powerful penetration testing tool, can benefit from interoperability between these two solutions, like session passing and tunneling. Beacon can be deployed from within Core Impact and users can spawn a Core Impact agent from within Cobalt Strike.

Community Kit
Our user community has created multiple extensions that escalate and enhance Cobalt Strike. The Community Kit was created to showcase these projects in a central repository, enabling fellow security professionals to benefit from these extensions.
Our user community has created multiple extensions that escalate and enhance Cobalt Strike. The Community Kit was created to showcase these projects in a central repository, enabling fellow security professionals to benefit from these extensions.
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