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Adversary simulation

QREDTEAM ADVERSARY SIMULATION

EXPERTISE TO TEST YOUR DEFENSES, NOT TO TEST THEM

The most dangerous attackers don’t strike at random. They map, anticipate, and take the paths no one thought to watch. Countering them effectively first requires seeing them in action — with total fidelity to reality.

Our offensive teams think, adapt and persist exactly like a determined human adversary. Not scripts. Not checkboxes. An investigation carried through to the end, built on your real threat model, with the techniques and tools of the most advanced APT groups. What you receive is not a vulnerability report — it’s an honest map of what an attacker would do against you, today.

Pentest · Red Team · Purple Team · APT emulation
Four engagement modes covering the entire spectrum of offensive simulation — from targeted testing to sustained multi-vector campaigns.
MITRE ATT&CK · TIBER-EU · CBEST
Engagements mapped to the most demanding frameworks — for comparable, auditable and actionable results.
Proprietary tools
Our engagements use tools developed in-house — not commercial frameworks recognized by EDRs.
"A classic pentest tells you what is vulnerable. A QRedTeam engagement shows you what an attacker would actually do with it — and in what order."

MASTERED ATTACK TECHNIQUES

Network & infrastructure exploitation

 Pivoting, lateral movement, C2 (Cobalt Strike, Brute Ratel, Havoc, custom implants) — full end-to-end infrastructure compromise.

Active Directory & Cloud attack

Kerberoasting, Pass-the-Hash, Golden/Silver Ticket, DCSync, privilege escalation on Azure AD, AWS and GCP.

Web & API hacking

OWASP Top 10, GraphQL, OAuth, JWT abuse, SSRF, XXE, deserialization — complete coverage of exposed application surfaces.

Social engineering & phishing

Spear-phishing, vishing, pretexting, adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) — initial vectors reproduced with total fidelity to real campaigns.

Malware development & evasion

Custom loaders and implants, shellcode injection, AV/EDR bypass, Living off the Land (LoTL) — minimal detection, maximum impact.

Physical intrusion

Badge cloning, lock picking, hardware implants (LAN Turtle, Bash Bunny) — full-scope Red Team engagements including the physical vector.

Advanced exploitation

Development of custom exploits to demonstrate real exploitability and the concrete impact of a vulnerability in the engagement’s context.

Kernel exploitation

Privilege escalation via kernel vulnerabilities — used in the deepest post-exploitation scenarios.

COVERED ENVIRONMENTS & SURFACES

Windows & AD

GPO, Kerberos, WMI, DCOM, LSASS — the dominant enterprise environment in all its complexity.

Linux

Servers, containers, CI/CD — kernel exploitation, sudo misconfiguration, SUID, cron jobs.

Cloud & DevOps

AWS, Azure, GCP — IAM misconfiguration, exposed secrets, attacks on pipelines and registries.

Containers & K8s

Container escape, attacks on the Kubernetes control plane, RBAC and secrets.

Network

Reconnaissance, sniffing, MITM, exploitation of network protocols and encrypted flows.

Mobile

 iOS & Android in targeted compromise scenarios — apps, MDM bypass, communications.

METHODOLOGY & FRAMEWORKS

MITRE ATT&CK

Adversary TTP mapping, emulation of documented groups — a framework of credibility and comparability for CISOs.

TIBER-EU / CBEST

Regulatory Red Team frameworks for the financial and critical-infrastructure sectors in Europe.

PTES / OSSTMM

Structured testing frameworks guaranteeing methodological rigor and reproducibility of results.

Threat Intelligence (CTI)

Engagements built on your real threat model — scenarios modeled on the adversaries that target you.

QUARKSLAB MOBILIZED TOOLS

Triton / TritonDSE

Symbolic execution to reason about target behavior and automate the discovery of attack paths.

QBDI

Dynamic binary instrumentation to analyze in depth the EDR defense mechanisms in place.

Rewind

Snapshot-based fuzzer for the Windows kernel — discovery of exploitable 0-days in advanced Red Team engagements.

kdigger

Reconnaissance and enumeration of attack surfaces in compromised Kubernetes environments.

proxyblob

Stealthy C2 infrastructure via Azure Blob Storage — discreet communication in heavily monitored environments.

Peetch

Kernel-level TLS communication interception via eBPF — bypassing application protections without altering binaries.

dreamboot

UEFI bootkit for demonstrating pre-OS attacks in the most advanced Red Team engagements.

quarkspwdump

Extraction of Windows credentials in post-exploitation — without process injection, minimal detection.

windbg-vtl

Analysis of Hyper-V partitions — useful in attack scenarios on enterprise virtualized environments.

MISSIONS TYPES

Targeted test

Advanced pentest

In-depth penetration testing on a defined perimeter — beyond automated scanning, all the way to proof of real impact.

long-duration simulation

Red Team

A sustained multi-vector APT campaign — the client doesn’t know when or how the attack will begin.

Red / Blue collaboration

Purple Team

Transparent exercises to test and improve, in real time, the detection and response capabilities of the SOC.

targeted simulation

APT emulation

Reproduction of a specific adversary group’s TTPs — modeled on the actors that actually target you.

regulatory

TIBER-EU / CBEST

Regulatory financial Red Team for banks, insurers and critical infrastructure subject to audit.

continuous

Adversary Simulation Retainer

Permanent access to an expert offensive team — continuous engagements, rapid response, posture tracking over time.

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Adversary simulation, mapping of real attack paths, remediation priorities before impact.

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