Hosting Files
Cobalt Strike’s web server can host your user-driven packages for you. From the menu, select Site Management -> Host File and perform the following to set up:
- Choose the file to host
- Select an arbitrary URL
- Choose the mime type for the file.
By itself, the capability to host a file isn’t very impressive. However, in sections that follow, you will learn how to embed Cobalt Strike URLs into a spear phishing email. When you do this, Cobalt Strike can cross-reference visitors to your file with sent emails and include this information in the social engineering report.
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