# MichaelKoczwara/Awesome-CobaltStrike-Defence

Defences against Cobalt Strike

Repository: https://github.com/MichaelKoczwara/Awesome-CobaltStrike-Defence
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/awesome-cobaltstrike-defence
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: cobalt-strike, cobaltstrike-defence, beacon, detection, defences
Last push: 2022-07-14T07:15:10+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2070, "days_push": 1511, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1301, forks 193 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:17.614485+00:00)

## What it is
A curated awesome-list of defensive resources, tools, and detection techniques for countering Cobalt Strike, a commercial adversary simulation and post-exploitation framework. It aggregates hunting tools, Yara rules, beacon configuration parsers, JARM fingerprinting resources, and MITRE ATT&CK references.

## Use cases
- find tools to detect cobalt strike beacons on my network
- learn how to defend against cobalt strike attacks
- hunt for sleeping beacons in memory
- parse cobalt strike beacon configurations
- find yara rules for detecting cobalt strike malware
- build a threat hunting playbook for C2 traffic

## When to choose
- you are a blue teamer or incident responder investigating suspected Cobalt Strike activity
- you need a starting point for building detection and hunting capabilities against C2 frameworks
- you want a curated index of beacon scanning, Yara, and forensic tools

## When to avoid
- you want an offensive tool or a way to run Cobalt Strike itself
- you need a single maintained detection product rather than a list of links
- you are defending against C2 frameworks other than Cobalt Strike

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: security, vulnerability-scanning, monitoring, developer-tools
- domain: security, penetration-testing, awesome-lists, developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: awesome-list, cobalt-strike, threat-detection, incident-response, dfir, c2-detection, yara-rules, threat-hunting

## Member repositories
- MichaelKoczwara/Awesome-CobaltStrike-Defence (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:17.614485+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:52:13.408666+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/MichaelKoczwara/Awesome-CobaltStrike-Defence (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:17.614485+00:00, sha 0a9e82ff8c2d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.