Top Tools Covered in Red Team Operation Training from InfosecTrain

Every breach tells the same story: attackers were already inside while defenders were still catching up. That’s why Red Teaming matters; it puts professionals in the attacker’s shoes, revealing weaknesses before criminals exploit them. The global penetration testing market is booming, projected to jump from $1.92 billion in 2023 to nearly $7.0 billion by 2032, reflecting surging demand for skilled Red Team operatives. InfosecTrain’s Red Team Operations training course prepares you to meet this challenge by equipping you with a comprehensive toolkit covering every phase of an attack: from reconnaissance and exploitation to post-exploitation and command‐and‐control. This training blends theory with hands-on labs, covering the full Red Team engagement lifecycle.

Top Tools Covered in Red Team Operation Training

1. Reconnaissance and OSINT Tools

InfosecTrain emphasizes open-source intelligence (OSINT) and network discovery. You learn to gather information using search engines, DNS tools, and specialized scanners. For example:

• Shodan: An Internet-wide search engine that indexes banners from connected devices (servers, routers, webcams, ICS/SCADA). Great for quickly finding exposed services, default credentials, and vulnerable IoT/OT devices to map the attack surface.
• Censys: A complementary internet-scanning platform that provides searchable, structured snapshots of hosts and TLS certificates. Useful for tracking certificate histories, discovering internet-exposed services, and verifying remediation over time.
• Google Dorking: A technique using advanced Google search operators (site:, filetype:, inurl:, etc.) to find exposed files, admin panels, backups, and sensitive info indexed by search engines. Extremely effective for passive discovery of misconfigured or accidentally published assets.
• SpiderFoot: An automated OSINT reconnaissance tool that aggregates 100+ public sources (WHOIS, DNS, social media, breach databases) into a single report. Ideal for building a comprehensive, correlated view of domains, emails, IPs, and leaked data.
• theHarvester: An email/host harvesting tool that queries search engines, PGP key servers, and other public sources to enumerate email addresses, subdomains, hosts, and open ports for a target. Commonly used to gather targets for phishing and social engineering.
• io: A web-based email-finding service that searches public sources and patterns to discover professional email addresses tied to a domain. Useful in social-engineering labs to build targeted contact lists and test organizational exposure.
• Wappalyzer: A browser extension/service that fingerprints web technologies (CMS, JS frameworks, analytics, server software) used by a site. Helps operators tailor exploits or reconnaissance to the specific tech stack in use.
• Maltego: A graphical link-analysis and visualization platform that maps relationships between domains, IPs, people, and infrastructure using transform-based OSINT. Powerful for turning disparate findings into an actionable attack-surface graph.

2. Exploitation and Scanning Frameworks

Once reconnaissance is done, InfosecTrain moves on to actual exploitation. The training covers tools to probe and compromise systems:

• Metasploit Framework (msfconsole / multi/handler / msfvenom): A modular exploitation platform for developing, testing, and running payloads. Operators use msfconsole to launch exploits, multi/handler as a flexible payload listener (C2), and msfvenom to craft customized payload binaries; defensive teams use it to validate detections and patching.
• Nessus: A commercial vulnerability scanner that performs authenticated and unauthenticated scans across hosts to identify missing patches, misconfigurations, and CVEs. Widely used in labs to generate risk reports and prioritize remediation.
• Nikto: An open-source web server scanner that enumerates common misconfigurations, dangerous files, and outdated server components. Fast and noisy; useful for baseline web checks and OWASP Top 10 reconnaissance.
• SQLMap: An automated tool for detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws and enumerating databases. It demonstrates the impact of injection (data exfiltration, schema discovery) while emphasizing safe and authorized testing.
• Burp Suite: A powerful web proxy and testing platform (interceptor, repeater, intruder, scanner) for manual and automated web application security testing. It’s the de facto toolkit for crafting requests, fuzzing endpoints, and validating XSS/SQLi findings.
• OWASP ZAP (Zed Attack Proxy): An open-source web security scanner and proxy that automates scanning and supports manual exploratory testing. Good for CI integrations and as a free alternative to Burp for fuzzing and passive discovery.
• Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET): A framework for automating social-engineering attacks like phishing, malicious document creation, and credential harvesting simulations. Used in red-team labs to demonstrate human-target risk and to validate organizational phishing defenses.
• BeEF (Browser Exploitation Framework): A tool focused on browser-based attacks that hooks browsers via social engineering to run post-exploitation modules (recon, keylogging, lateral pivot demos). Useful to show the impact of client-side compromises and insecure web content.
• LaZagne: An open-source credential recovery tool that extracts saved passwords from many local applications (browsers, mail clients, wifi profiles). Used in labs to show the risks of stored credentials on endpoints.
• John the Ripper: A fast, flexible password-cracking tool that supports many hash formats and wordlist/rule-based attacks. Labs use it to demonstrate password policy weaknesses and the time/cost to crack common hashes.
• Hashcat: A GPU-accelerated password-recovery tool for large-scale hash cracking and advanced attack modes (mask, rule, combinator). It’s used to illustrate real-world cracking speed and to guide defenders on password complexity and rate-limit controls.

3. Post-Exploitation and Lateral Movement Tools

Getting a foothold is just the beginning; InfosecTrain’s Modules 4 and 5 focus on post-exploitation and lateral movement. Key tools include:

• BloodHound: A graph-based AD enumeration tool. BloodHound maps Active Directory relationships (users, groups, ACLs) to identify attack paths.
• PowerView (PowerShell): Alongside BloodHound, InfosecTrain teaches PowerView scripts for on-the-fly AD recon. These can quickly list domain admins, sessions, logged-on users, and other internal information.
• Mimikatz: A post-exploitation credential-harvesting utility for Windows that extracts plaintext passwords, hashes, and Kerberos tickets from memory. Taught as a demonstration of why credential hygiene and LSA protections are critical.
• LaZagne: For Linux or Windows, LaZagne retrieves stored passwords from browsers and apps. It complements Mimikatz by grabbing account information from files and keychains.
• CrackMapExec (CME): A Swiss Army knife for AD exploitation. CME enables the automated scanning of AD hosts, credential reuse, psexec-like commands, and the execution of payloads across multiple machines.
• Chisel and Socat: In pivoting scenarios, the training covers port forwarding tools. Chisel and Ligolo-ng (reverse SSH tunnels), as well as Socat/netcat for port forwarding.

4. Command‑and‑Control (C2) Frameworks

• Metasploit (msfconsole / multi/handler / msfvenom): A modular exploitation framework used to craft, deliver, and manage payloads; multi/handler serves as a quick listener/C2, and msfvenom builds customizable payloads. Widely used for exploit development, validation, and blue-team detection testing.
• Empire: A PowerShell/.NET C2 framework that emphasizes scriptable, agent-based operations using Windows native tooling; frequently chosen for engagements that rely on PowerShell living-off-the-land techniques and stealthy in-memory execution. Useful to demonstrate payloads that lean on native Windows capabilities.
• Sliver: A lightweight, cross-platform C2 written in Go that offers flexible listeners, payload management, and scripting for scalable, stealthy operations across Windows/Linux/macOS. Valued for its portability, performance, and ease of deployment in diverse environments.

5. AI‑Powered and Advanced Attack Tools

Staying ahead also means leveraging cutting-edge tech. The InfosecTrain Red Team course incorporates AI and advanced tradecraft:

• GyoiThon: An AI-assisted reconnaissance tool that fingerprints web servers, frameworks, and tech stacks from HTTP responses, speeding up discovery and classification of target assets for red-team recon.
• Mythic: An open-source, web-based command-and-control (C2) framework that lets operators deploy, manage, and customize implants (payloads) with a modular GUI and operator workflows for collaborative engagements.
• GoPhish: A user-friendly phishing simulation framework for creating, sending, and tracking targeted phishing campaigns, with templates, click-tracking, and campaign analytics used in social-engineering labs.

Red Team Operations Training with InfosecTrain

InfosecTrain’s Red Team Operations training arms you with all the flagship tools and frameworks of modern offensive security. From SpiderFoot, Nmap, and Shodan for information gathering, to Metasploit and SQLmap for exploits, to BloodHound and Mimikatz for post-exploitation, each tool is practiced in realistic scenarios. You will build command-and-control networks using Cobalt Strike, Covenant, Empire, and more. Plus, you will explore the cutting edge of hacking, like AI-powered reconnaissance (Gyoithon) and deepfake attacks.

By mastering this toolkit, you not only enhance your Red Team capabilities but also refine your interview-ready answers. Every tool above has a real-world purpose: they help you emulate sophisticated adversaries from end to end. Armed with these capabilities, you will be well-prepared to outsmart blue teams and land that next cybersecurity role.

TRAINING CALENDAR of Upcoming Batches For RedTeam

Start Date	End Date	Start - End Time	Batch Type	Training Mode	Batch Status
03-Jan-2026	07-Mar-2026	09:00 - 13:00 IST	Weekend	Online	[ Open ]	Enroll Now