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Adaptix C2 Architecture: Configuring Command & Control Listeners
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Adaptix C2 Architecture: Configuring Command & Control Listeners

AdaptixC2 listener configuration guide, second in a Hackers-Arise series. It walks through the fields for BeaconDNS, Beacon HTTP, Beacon SMB, Beacon TCP and Gopher TCP listeners, including DNS burst mode, HTTP URIs, User-Agents and redirector callback addresses, SMB named pipes, TCP prepend data, and mTLS. It also explains external versus internal listeners for lateral movement.

TL;DR Explains how to create and configure each AdaptixC2 listener type and when to use external versus internal listeners.
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  • mutual TLS
  • named pipes
  • redirector

Technologies named here

  • AdaptixC2 Beacon SMB listener
  • AdaptixC2 Beacon TCP listener
  • AdaptixC2 Gopher TCP listener
  • Redirectors
  • Hackers-Arise Hacking Infrastructure course
  • AdaptixC2
  • Windows

Techniques named here

  • External listeners
  • Internal listeners
  • HTTP C2 traffic blending

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