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Course Overview

PowerShell has become an essential tool for both system administrators and penetration testers due to its versatility, automation capabilities, and deep integration with Windows environments. For ethical hackers and red-teamers, PowerShell provides powerful methods to perform reconnaissance, exploitation, lateral movement, and persistence—all while often evading traditional security defenses. Learning how to leverage PowerShell effectively is critical for conducting realistic penetration tests and for strengthening defenses against these very attacks.

This course begins with the fundamentals of PowerShell, including its command-line interface, cmdlets, and working with objects. It then progresses to scripting, covering setup, script creation, functions, and modules. Learners will explore reconnaissance and scanning techniques, such as host discovery and sensitive file identification, before moving into Active Directory exploitation with credential harvesting, brute-force, and client-side attacks. Advanced sections demonstrate exploitation methods, privilege escalation, and payload creation, as well as PowerShell’s integration with Metasploit for meterpreter sessions and pass-the-hash attacks. The course further covers persistence techniques, backdoor creation, lateral movement, and concludes with best practices for preventing PowerShell attacks, documenting findings, and reporting effectively.

This course equips learners to use PowerShell for ethical hacking, penetration testing, and defense, providing practical skills to identify vulnerabilities, simulate real-world attacks, and strengthen organizational security.

What You Will Learn

  • Familiarize with PowerShell fundamentals such as using the CLI, Cmdlets, Objects, Modules, Commands and Functions
  • Learn to create PowerShell Scripts
  • Familiarize with reconnaissance and scanning using PowerShell
  • Learn to perform Privilege Escalation attacks using PowerShell
  • Learn to create a PowerShell payload
  • Familiarize with Reporting and Documentation
  • Understand the best practices against PowerShell attacks

Program Curriculum

  • Welcome to PowerShell
  • Command Line Interpreter (CLI)
  • PowerShell cmdlets
  • Working with Objects
  • Modules and Functions
  • Section Summary
  • $7 Million Cybersecurity Scholarship by EC-Council
  • Chapter 1 Quiz

  • Section Introduction
  • Introduction to PowerShell Scripts
  • Setting up a Development Environment
  • Creating PowerShell Scripts
  • Script Documentation
  • Functions and Modules
  • Section Summary
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

  • Section Introduction
  • Gathering Information
  • Network Host and Port Discovery Scans
  • Accessing Files with Sensitive Information
  • Section Summary
  • Chapter 3 Quiz

  • Section Introduction
  • Obtaining User Credentials Using PowerShell
  • Performing Client-side Attacks Using PowerShell
  • Performing Brute-force Attacks with PowerShell
  • Section Summary
  • Chapter 4 Quiz

  • Section Introduction
  • Writing PowerShell Scripts and Web Shells for Exploitation
  • Performing Privilege Escalation Attacks Using PowerShell
  • Creating a PowerShell Payload
  • Section Summary
  • Chapter 5 Quiz

  • Section Introduction
  • Using PowerShell with Metasploit
  • The Metasploit Meterpreter
  • Performing Pass-the-Hash Attack with PowerShell
  • Section Summary
  • Chapter 6 Quiz

  • Section Introduction
  • Creating Backdoors with PowerShell
  • Lateral Movement and Persistence with PowerShell
  • PowerShell Remoting for Penetration Testing
  • Section Summary
  • Chapter 7 Quiz

  • Section Introduction
  • Reporting Findings
  • Documentation
  • Best Practices Against PowerShell Attacks
  • Section Summary
  • Chapter 8 Quiz
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Instructor

Juraj Šimunec

Juraj Šimunec is Microsoft 365 Engineer experienced with setup and administration of complete M365 platform. His main area of focus is to provide best possible experience for users, but at the same time following best security practices in tenant configuration and integration with various workloads.

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