Red Team Services in India — adversary simulation that actually tests your SOC.
Penetration tests find vulnerabilities. Red team operations answer the harder question: 'Can a determined APT-style attacker achieve their goal — and will we know?' Macksofy red teams use real-world TTPs, custom infrastructure, and EDR-bypass tradecraft.
One playbook. Four ways to start.
Real adversaries pick the path of least resistance. So do we. Pick the starting position that matches the threat you actually worry about — or talk to us and we’ll co-design a hybrid that does.
Starts on the open internet, ends inside your crown jewels.
- ▸Spear-phishing of named employees
- ▸OSINT-led credential & token harvesting
- ▸Exposed-asset and third-party-vendor compromise
- ▸Initial access proven without insider help
Assume the phishing email already worked. What happens next?
- ▸Drop a low-privilege foothold inside the LAN / VPN
- ▸AD enumeration, BloodHound paths, ADCS abuse
- ▸Lateral movement past Defender / CrowdStrike / SentinelOne
- ▸Race to Domain Admin or business-impact target
External entry, internal depth — one continuous campaign.
- ▸Phase 1 ─ external breach to first internal foothold
- ▸Phase 2 ─ pivot to internal-network depth with EDR live
- ▸Phase 3 ─ cross-domain / cross-cloud lateral movement
- ▸Single narrative, single ATT&CK heatmap, single report
Same tradecraft, but your SOC is in the room with us.
- ▸Live attack technique → live detection tuning loop
- ▸Per-TTP score sheet against your SIEM / EDR rules
- ▸Detection-engineering backlog handed over at debrief
- ▸Best fit for mature SOCs measuring uplift
44 days. One objective. Zero shortcuts.
Composite narrative from a 2025 BFSI red team — the timeline a blue team receives at debrief.
- Validate detection + response capability against real-world adversary
- Train blue team via purple-team handoff at engagement close
- Provide board-level evidence of resilience (or gaps)
- Satisfy advanced regulatory expectations (SEBI CSCRF tier-1)
- 01
Reconnaissance
· Day 1–7OSINT · employee profiling · attack surface mapping
chained - 02
Initial Access
· Day 8–10Spear-phish with custom macro · zero AV detection
chained - 03
Foothold + EDR Evasion
· Day 11–14Indirect syscalls · process hollowing · Cobalt Strike beacon
chained - 04
Lateral Movement
· Day 15–24Kerberoast · RBCD · pass-the-ticket · BloodHound paths
chained - 05
Privilege Escalation
· Day 25–32Domain Admin via NoPac · DCSync · golden ticket
chained - 06
Objective + Exfil
· Day 33–44Customer DB exfil · DNS tunnel · 4 GB across 11 days
Every TTP documented. Every detection gap surfaced.
Standard deliverable on every Macksofy red team — your blue team gets a tactic-by-tactic map of what we did, what they detected, and where the detection-engineering work remains.
Listed Indian bank. Goal: silent DA.
Goal: 'Achieve Domain Admin without detection'
Result · DA in 4h 12m via phishing → SentinelOne EDR bypass → AD enumeration
Blue team detection coverage gaps mapped + remediated in next quarter
Real operators. Real tradecraft. No outsourcing.
India has plenty of vendors who will sell you a red team and quietly run a credentialed pentest. Macksofy doesn’t. Here’s what makes our engagements different.
Every operator on your engagement is a full-time Macksofy employee — OSCP / OSEP / CRTO / CRTL. No subcontractors, no offshore handoffs, no LinkedIn freelancers.
Your campaign runs on a brand-new redirector tier, a fresh implant, and signatures no AV / EDR has seen. We do not share infrastructure across clients.
Engagements are scoped against the threat actors that actually target your sector — TA505, Conti splinters, FIN8, APT41 — not a generic playbook.
Every engagement closes with a full ATT&CK-mapped detection-gap report and an optional 1-day purple-team workshop. Your SOC walks away genuinely better.
We’re empanelled by CERT-In and our deliverables are accepted by RBI, SEBI, IRDAI and large-enterprise InfoSec committees without rework.
A senior consultant with 8+ years of offensive experience leads every campaign end-to-end — from scoping call to board readout.
Deepest experience in BFSI (private banks, NBFCs, payment processors) plus IT services, SaaS, telecom and government — across India and the UAE.
Our operators cross Azure ↔ Entra ↔ on-prem AD ↔ AWS ↔ K8s in a single engagement, because that’s what real adversaries do.
Custom C2. Custom payloads.
We don’t share infrastructure. Every Macksofy red team gets a dedicated C2 tier and custom payloads with no signatures in any commercial AV/EDR.
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- CERT-In Empanelled
- EC-Council ATC · CompTIA Authorized
- 20,000+ professionals trained
- India + UAE engagements