Red Team Penetration Testing Services
Red Team penetration testing services that prove your defenses under real attack conditions.
What Red Team Penetration Testing Services Reveal
Raxis runs full-scope adversary simulations using the same tactics, techniques, and procedures employed by nation-state actors and ransomware attackers. We work across networks, applications, people, and physical infrastructure. Atlanta-based, U.S.-led, always manually delivered.
Multi-Vector Assault
We chain network exploitation, social engineering, and physical intrusion into a single coordinated operation — the same way nation-state actors and ransomware crews actually operate.
Stealth & Evasion
Our red team specializes in bypassing EDR, evading SOC detection, and maintaining persistence. If your blue team can't find us, we'll show you exactly why.
Measurable Business Impact
We don't stop at "access gained." Every red team engagement demonstrates real consequences — data exfiltration, operational disruption, domain dominance — mapped to business risk your board will understand.
What We Test in Red Team Engagements
Most penetration tests stop at the perimeter or focus on one layer. Raxis red team penetration testing engagements go wherever real adversaries go — chaining findings across networks, applications, identities, and physical access to demonstrate complete attack paths, not isolated vulnerabilities. The scope reflects how breaches actually unfold.
Full Attack Surface Coverage
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Why Raxis for Red Team Penetration Testing
We're the team organizations call after another vendor gave them a clean report.
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, OSCE, 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.
Real Time Tracking
Raxis One gives you instant visibility into your Red Team engagement as it unfolds — risk details, attack storyboards, and remediation strategies delivered through a secure, intuitive portal.
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.
Large Global Retailer
VP of Information Security
Red Team Tradecraft in Action
Each screenshot below comes from a real Raxis red team engagement. Custom payload encoding. Kernel exploit chains. GPU-accelerated hash cracking. Real customer data extracted from production databases. This is the technical depth a manual red team penetration test delivers.
Custom Payload Development
Off-the-shelf Metasploit payloads have 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. The screenshot shows a 10-iteration encoded payload, the kind of evasion real attackers use against your EDR.
Privilege Escalation
Kernel exploits, misconfigured permissions, and credential abuse are how real adversaries elevate from initial access to root. The screenshot shows Raxis exploiting a Dirty Pipe-style technique to write directly to /etc/passwd — gaining root by abusing a kernel vulnerability. From there, we pivot laterally with Mimikatz and PsExec to reach domain admin.
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 — because real attackers don't quit when an estimate is long. They wait, and they win when defenders rely on weak passwords.
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: not theoretical risk, but real records an attacker could sell, leak, or hold for ransom.
The Raxis Red Team Methodology
The Raxis red team penetration testing methodology follows the MITRE ATT&CK framework and aligns with NIST 800-115. Every engagement progresses through eight phases that mirror how real adversaries operate — from initial reconnaissance through persistent access and data exfiltration.
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
In a daring demonstration of real-world adversary simulation, the Raxis Red Team set out to test the defenses of a major national retailer. Our mission was simple in concept but complex in execution: think like an attacker, move like an attacker, and uncover the true extent of the company’s vulnerabilities. The engagement began quietly. Armed with Aircrack-ng, our penetration testing experts focused on the retailer’s wireless network. During what appeared to be a routine handshake process, we captured the network’s encryption key. Within hours, Raxis’ multi-GPU Hashcat system had cracked it wide open — our first entry point into their digital environment.
Once inside the wireless network, we shifted to internal penetration testing. Using CrackMapExec, we discovered a shockingly simple oversight — a system still protected by its default password. In the world of cybersecurity, that’s the equivalent of leaving the keys in the ignition and the doors unlocked. This single lapse granted us local administrator privileges, which we used to dump SAM hashes and begin moving laterally. One by one, we gained control of additional systems, each step bringing us closer to the ultimate prize: domain administrator access.
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.
