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Red Team & Adversary Simulation

We attack like the crews actually targeting you, chaining network, human, and physical access.

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AI Changed the Threat Landscape

Attackers now blend AI speed with hands-on skill, so we do too. The Raxis Red Team combine expert manual tradecraft with AI assist to simulate the attacks hitting real-world networks right now.

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 applications13%

Source: IBM Cost of a Data Breach 2025

Multi-Vector By Design

We chain network, social, and physical into one operation, the way ransomware crews and nation-state actors actually work. Not three separate tests stapled together.

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. All mapped to risk your board understands.

Pick the Attack That Keeps You Up at Night

We build the engagement around your real threat model, not a template. Let’s discuss what technique works best for you.

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Red Team as a Service

Year-round adversary simulation with unannounced attacks at random intervals, so you’re testing real readiness, not a scheduled drill. Delivered through Raxis Attack.

Ransomware Readiness

We emulate a real ransomware crew end to end: identity abuse, privilege escalation, backup destruction, and data theft. You see the impact without the damage.

Assumed Breach

Assume the breach already happened. We start with access and measure how far we get before anyone notices.

Insider Threat

We start with normal employee access and show how far a disgruntled or compromised user could push it.

Named-Adversary Emulation

We mirror a named adversary known to hit your industry, reproducing how they actually operate, step for step.

Purple Team

We attack while your blue team watches and adjusts, turning every finding into a sharper detection on the spot.

We Go Wherever Adversaries Go

Real breaches don’t respect scope lines, so neither do we. We chain across networks, apps, identities, and physical access to show the whole path.

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Networks & infrastructure 

We hit the perimeter, pivot inside, and pull apart cloud and segmentation the way an intruder would.

Applications & APIs

Web, mobile, and custom enterprise apps, tested for the logic flaws scanners skip.

People

Phishing, vishing, smishing, and in-person pretexting that show how your team reacts under pressure.

Physical

Badge cloning, tailgating, and lock bypass to reach the systems behind the door.

Wireless

WPA cracking and rogue access point detection that expose the network hiding in plain sight.

Cloud

AWS, Azure, and GCP misconfigurations that hand attackers the keys.

Identity

Active Directory, Okta, and Entra ID, where one foothold becomes full control.

We’re Who You Call After the Clean Report

Most firms run scanners and hand you a PDF. We run real attacks, and we publish our own CVEs (12 and counting).

The Raxis Difference

Most penetration testing firms run automated scans. Raxis runs real attacks. Our red team penetration testing services are delivered by U.S.-based engineers with OSCP, OSEP, GPEN, and CISSP certifications who manually exploit, chain, and pivot through your environment the way actual adversaries do. AI augmented where it helps, human led where it matters.

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Real Time Tracking

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Raxis One gives you live visibility into your Red Team engagement as it unfolds. Risk details, attack storyboards, and remediation strategies, all in the portal.

We Publish Our Own CVEs

Raxis researchers find and publish new CVEs in widely used software. That original research feeds straight into your red team engagement, so we test you with attack techniques most firms have never seen, drawn from vulnerabilities we found ourselves.

Built for Compliance

Our red team methodology aligns with NIST 800-115 and the major penetration testing compliance standards. Every finding is documented to drop straight into your compliance and audit evidence.

Private by Default

Raxis holds SOC 2 Type II for how we handle client data through every stage of an engagement. AI powered tools are optional and used only with your approval, and when we use them your data is never exposed to third parties or used to train external models.

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All of our engagements run under NDA, and many CISOs prefer not to name their security partner in someone else’s marketing. Ask for references. We’ll connect you with named customers in your industry who can speak to our work.

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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.“
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Delivered Securely in Raxis One 

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

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Live Attack Feed

Watch findings, risk details, and attack storyboards appear the moment we confirm them, not weeks later.

Attack-path storyboards

We walk you from first foothold to domain dominance.

Detection & Response Scorecard

You see exactly what your SOC caught, what it missed, and how long we went unnoticed.

Proof of Impact

Working proof-of-concepts and safely extracted evidence, with nothing ever removed from your network.

Proitized Remediation

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

Executive Briefing

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

Red Team Tradecraft in Action

Custom payload encoding. Kernel exploit chains. Multi GPU hash cracking. Customer data extracted from production databases.

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Custom Payload Development

Stock Metasploit payloads carry signatures defenders recognize. Raxis red team engineers craft custom encoded variants using msfvenom’s iterative x64/xor encoder, generating reverse shells that bypass signature based detection.

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Privilege Escalation

Kernel exploits, misconfigured permissions, and credential abuse are how adversaries elevate from initial access to root. The screenshot shows Raxis exploiting a Dirty Pipe technique to write directly to /etc/passwd, gaining root by abusing a kernel vulnerability.

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GPU-Accelerated Password Cracking

Raxis runs multi-GPU Hashcat rigs against captured NTLMv2 hashes, password-protected files, and offline domain credentials. The screenshot shows live cracking against NetNTLMv2 hashes with an 11-day estimated runtime. Real attackers don’t quit when an estimate is long. They wait, and they win when defenders rely on weak passwords.

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Database Extraction & PII Exposure

Raxis demonstrates real impact by safely extracting sensitive data. No actual records leave your network, but the proof is undeniable. The screenshot shows a query against a customer database returning logins, SSNs, and personal information. This is what a breach actually looks like. These are real records an attacker could sell, leak, or hold for ransom.

The Raxis Red Team Methodology

The Raxis Red Team methodology follows the MITRE ATT&CK framework and aligns with NIST 800-115.

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Reconnaissance

OSINT, dark web monitoring, technical profiling. We map your attack surface from public sources before any exploit.

02

Initial Access

Spear phishing, credential stuffing, exploit chains. We breach perimeter defenses using techniques real adversaries deploy.

03

Privilege Escalation

Kernel exploits, misconfigurations, credential abuse. Once inside, we elevate to admin privileges to expand reach.

04

Lateral Movement

Pass-the-hash, RDP pivoting, AD enumeration. We move through your environment to access critical systems.

05

Persistence & Stealth

Backdoors, scheduled tasks, EDR evasion. We maintain access while avoiding SOC detection, and we document exactly how.

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Action on Objectives

Domain admin, data targeting, system control. We achieve the objectives a real attacker would prioritize.

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Data Exfiltration Simulation

Safe simulated theft, no actual data leaves your network. We prove what an adversary could steal without removing anything.

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Reporting & Remediation

MITRE-mapped findings, kill chain storyboards, remediation guidance. We deliver actionable reports plus retesting after fixes.

Raxis Hack Stories

Our stories are based on real events encountered by Raxis engineers; however, some details have been altered or omitted to protect our customers’ identities.

From Wi-Fi Handshake to Gift Card Vault

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.

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See How We’d Break In

Request a sample Red Team report and follow the whole operation, from the first foothold to the objective, including what your defenders caught and what they missed.

What’s inside:

  • The full attack narrative, initial access to objective
  • Detection gaps: what tripped alarms and what slipped by
  • Remediation tied to every phase of the engagement
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Red Teaming FAQ

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.

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.

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.

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

Typically 4–12 weeks depending on scope and objectives.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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