Red Team Services & Adversary Simulation

Not every way in is online.

We attack like the crews actually targeting you, chaining network, human, and physical access. When we reach what matters, we leave a card.

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Defensive control

Nothing replaces skill. Illustrative scenario. Testing follows agreed scope and safety rules.

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Front Door

Would someone challenge them?

02

Restricted Area

Could they get farther?

03

Internal Systems

Could access become control?

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Business Impact

What could be put at risk?

Pick the Attack That Keeps You Up at Night

We build the engagement around your real threat model, not a template. Real breaches don’t respect scope lines, so we chain across networks, apps, identity, cloud, wireless, people, and doors, drawing on our penetration testing practice wherever the path leads.

Full-Scope Operations

Red Team as a Service

Year-round adversary simulation with unannounced attacks, so you test real readiness, not a scheduled drill. Delivered through Raxis Attack.

Ransomware Readiness

A ransomware crew’s playbook, end to end: identity abuse, privilege escalation, backup destruction, data theft. The impact without the damage.

Assumed Breach

Assume they’re already in. We start with access and measure how far we get before anyone notices.

Insider Threat

Normal employee access, pushed as far as a disgruntled or compromised user could take it.

Named-Adversary Emulation

We reproduce the crew known to hit your industry, step for step.

Purple Team

We attack while your blue team watches and tunes, so every finding becomes a detection on the spot.

Focused Engagements

Every operation above draws on these. Each is also available on its own when you want to test one door hard.

Phishing, Spear Phishing & Vishing

Email, phone, and text pretexts built for your people, so you see who clicks, who calls back, and what they give up.

Badge cloning, tailgating, lock bypass, and in-person pretexting, from the parking lot to the server room.

Breach & Attack Simulation

Human-led validation of the controls you already own. Do your EDR, SOC, and playbooks stop a real operator?

We’re Who You Call After the Clean Report

Most firms run scanners and hand you a PDF. We run the attack, leave a card where we reached, and publish the CVEs we find along the way. Attackers now move at AI speed with hands-on skill, so we do too.

Breach Statistics

Time for AI to write a convincing phishing email

5 minutes

Source: IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence

Average time to identify and contain a U.S. data breach

241 days

Source: IBM Cost of a Data Breach 2025

Organizations have had an attack on AI models or applications

13%

Source: IBM Cost of a Data Breach 2025

Senior, U.S.-Based Engineers

Every engagement is run by U.S.-based engineers holding OSCP, OSEP, GPEN, and CISSP. AI assists where it helps. People lead where it matters.

Built to Beat Your Blue Team

We bypass EDR, evade the SOC, and hold persistence. If your team never sees us, we show you exactly where the blind spots are.

Impact, Not Just Access

We go past “we got in” to prove consequences: data exfiltrated, operations disrupted, domain owned. Mapped to risk your board understands.

We Publish Our Own CVEs

Raxis researchers publish new CVEs in widely used software. You get tested with techniques most firms have never seen.

Built for Compliance

Aligned with NIST 800-115 and the major compliance standards. Every finding drops straight into your audit evidence.

Private by Default

SOC 2 Type II for how we handle your data. AI tools are optional, used only with your approval, and never train outside models on your data.

Speak to a Raxis Customer

Every engagement runs under NDA, and most CISOs won’t name their security partner in someone else’s marketing. Ask us for references and we’ll connect you with named customers in your industry.

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“After a major, big name pentesting firm found nothing significant, we brought in Raxis for a red team engagement. They gained domain admin access and demonstrated how an attacker could exfiltrate our most sensitive data. Worth every penny.”

VP of Information Security, Global Services Company

Raxis named a key player in the global penetration testing market by MarketsandMarkets (2026), alongside IBM and Rapid7.

Delivered Securely in Raxis One

Every finding lands in the Raxis One portal: encrypted, access-controlled, and live the moment we confirm it.

Raxis One attack overview screen for a Red Team engagement.

Live Attack Feed

Findings, risk details, and storyboards appear the moment we confirm them, not weeks later.

Attack-Path Storyboards

The whole path, first foothold to domain dominance.

Detection & Response Scorecard

What your SOC caught, what it missed, and how long we went unnoticed.

Proof of Impact

Working proofs of concept, the card we left, and safely extracted evidence. Nothing leaves your network.

Prioritized Remediation

Ranked fixes your team can start Monday, and a retest once you’ve patched.

Executive Briefing

A plain-language board readout of exposure and real business risk.

The Raxis Red Team Methodology

Every engagement follows MITRE ATT&CK and aligns with NIST 800-115.

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Reconnaissance

OSINT, dark web, technical profiling. We map your attack surface before touching it.

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Initial Access

Spear phishing, credential stuffing, exploit chains. We get in the way real adversaries do.

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Privilege Escalation

Kernel exploits, misconfigurations, credential abuse. We take admin and widen our reach.

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Lateral Movement

Pass-the-hash, RDP pivoting, AD enumeration. We move to the systems that matter.

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Persistence & Stealth

Backdoors, scheduled tasks, EDR evasion. We stay in, stay quiet, and document exactly how.

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Action on Objectives

Domain admin, data, control. We take what a real attacker would come for.

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Data Exfiltration Simulation

We prove what could be stolen. Nothing actually leaves your network.

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Reporting & Remediation

MITRE-mapped findings, kill chain storyboards, ranked fixes, and a retest after you patch.

Every Step, With Proof

Four moments from real engagements, redacted. Each one went into the report exactly as you see it here, so your team could reproduce the finding and close it.

msfvenom encoding a reverse shell across ten x64/xor iterations — Ten x64/xor passes produce a reverse shell with no signature a scanner would know.

01 · Custom Payload Development

Get in without tripping the alarm

Stock Metasploit payloads carry signatures every EDR already knows. We encode custom variants that walk past signature-based detection and open a reverse shell on the host.

02 · Privilege Escalation

Turn a foothold into full control

One unpatched kernel is all it takes. Here we abuse the Dirty Pipe vulnerability to write straight to /etc/passwd and become root, the same move an adversary makes to own the box.

Dirty Pipe exploitation rewriting the root entry in /etc/passwd — The root entry rewritten, then a shell running as uid=0.

Multi-GPU Hashcat cracking NetNTLMv2 hashes with an 11-day estimate — Live cracking of NetNTLMv2 hashes, eleven days of runtime queued without blinking.

03 · GPU-Accelerated Cracking

Crack the password your policy called strong

We run multi-GPU Hashcat rigs against captured hashes and offline domain credentials. A long estimate stops nobody serious, and it will not stop us.

04 · Database Extraction

Reach the data a breach is really about

Nothing leaves your network, but the proof is undeniable: a single query returning logins, SSNs, and personal records. These are what an attacker would sell, leak, or hold for ransom.

A query against a customer database returning logins and SSNs — One query against a customer database returns logins and Social Security numbers.

Every step here lands in Raxis One with the storyboard behind it, so your team sees the path as we walk it.

From Wi-Fi Handshake to Gift Card Vault

Raxis Hack Stories

Our stories are based on real events encountered by Raxis engineers. Some details have been altered or omitted to protect customer identities.

Raxis set out to test the defenses of a major national retailer through full-scope adversary simulation: think like an attacker, move like an attacker, document the actual extent of the company’s vulnerabilities. The engagement began quietly. Armed with Aircrack-ng, our pentesters focused on the retailer’s wireless network. During a routine handshake process, we captured the network’s encryption key. Within hours, our Hashcat rig had cracked it open. First entry point into their environment, established.

Once inside the wireless network, we shifted to internal penetration testing. Using CrackMapExec, we found a system still protected by its default password. Default credentials on a production system are the equivalent of leaving the keys in the ignition.

Late into the night, our team fed the coveted domain admin hash into Raxis’ powerful Hashcat cracking rig. By morning, we had the credentials in hand. When we returned to the client’s environment, the validation was instant, we now had full control of the entire Active Directory domain, with the same privileges as their own IT administrators.

Deep in the environment, we uncovered something with far more than symbolic value: a custom application and database containing store-branded gift cards and PINs. Even more alarming, we had the capability to generate new cards on demand. For a criminal actor, this would be an open vault. For the retailer, it was a wake-up call about the potential financial and reputational impact of weak security controls.

This Raxis Red Team penetration testing engagement wasn’t a scripted exercise. It was a full-spectrum test designed to mimic a determined adversary, combining wireless penetration testing, privilege escalation, and targeted data access to reveal how a single overlooked control can cascade into total compromise. By blending human-led expertise with AI-driven efficiency, Raxis shows clients exactly how attackers could breach their defenses, and gives them the insight to prevent it from happening in the real world.

FAQ: Red Teaming

How is a red team assessment different from a penetration test?

A red team assessment simulates a real attacker with specific objectives. We test your ability to detect, respond to, and contain a sophisticated adversary across multiple attack vectors. A pentest finds and validates as many vulnerabilities as possible in scope; a red team pursues a specific objective stealthily to test whether your people and defenses detect and stop a real adversary.

What is adversary simulation?

Adversary simulation replicates the tactics, techniques, and procedures of real-world threat actors to test your organization's end-to-end defenses, including people, processes, and technology. Raxis uses the MITRE ATT&CK framework to ensure every engagement reflects current threat intelligence.

What red team services does Raxis offer?

Raxis delivers full-scope red team assessments including network exploitation, social engineering penetration testing, physical penetration testing, cloud and infrastructure attacks, data exfiltration simulation, and purple team engagements.

Will red team testing disrupt our operations?

No. We establish strict rules of engagement and maintain constant communication. All testing is conducted safely with fail-safes to prevent operational disruption.

How long does a red team engagement take?

Typically 4–12 weeks depending on scope and objectives.

Do you offer continuous red teaming?

Yes. We offer ongoing red team services through our Raxis One platform for continuous adversary simulation and defense validation.

Do you offer purple team services?

Yes. Purple teaming combines red team attack execution with blue team collaboration, improving detection and response capabilities in real time.

What industries do you serve?

We've conducted red team operations for financial services, healthcare, government, defense contractors, critical infrastructure, technology companies, and more.

Are your red team operators certified?

Yes. Our team holds OSCP, OSEP, GPEN, CEH, CISSP, and more. Average experience is 15+ years in offensive security.

What does “time-boxed” mean for a red team assessment?

Our engagements are limited to a defined timeframe. We report everything accomplished during that window along with recommendations for strengthening your defenses.

What red team scenarios can you run?

We build each engagement around the threat that matters most to you. Common scenarios include ransomware readiness (emulating a modern operator through identity abuse, backup destruction, and hypervisor-level impact), assumed breach (starting from a foothold to focus on detection, lateral movement, and response), insider threat (a malicious or compromised employee modeled end to end), and named-adversary emulation (replicating the specific APT or crew targeting your sector using their real TTPs). We also run purple team engagements, where our attack and your defenders work together to tune detection in real time. If your concern isn't listed, we'll scope a scenario to fit it.