PowerShell for Pentesters: Mastering Offensive Scripting in Windows Environments

From Zero to Professional Audits: Automation, Evasion, and Exploitation with PowerShell

PowerShell has become one of the most powerful —and most feared— tools in today’s offensive security arsenal.
This book explores its use through a clear, methodical, and progressive perspective: starting from the environment, syntax, and basic cmdlets, and guiding the reader toward PowerShell’s true potential in offensive cybersecurity operations.

Through detailed explanations, reproducible examples, and hands-on labs, the reader will learn how Windows operates internally, how its weaknesses become exposed, and how an adversary could leverage PowerShell to enumerate, abuse, persist, escalate, move laterally, or evade defensive solutions.

Across its chapters, the book develops not only the technical knowledge but also the analytical mindset of a pentester: how to think, how to hunt, how to chain techniques, and how to turn PowerShell into a natural extension of one’s offensive intelligence.

A book designed for students, auditors, security analysts, and professionals who want to make PowerShell a primary tool in their assessments and Red Team exercises.