Payload Testing
Validate Your Endpoint Protection
Payloads are the visitor that you don’t want at your doorstep. Rather they are used for delivering exploits, persistence, or exfiltrating sensitive data, they prevent significant risk and often times they can be executed without raising alarms. Advanced threats are constantly battling your endpoint solutions to get that successful execution. In hardened environments, generic hacking tools and shells trigger alerts and these defensive mechanisms are excellent but stealthy payloads that are custom-crafted must be accounted for.
Aevora’s Payload Testing service is designed to deliver exploits against EDRs, sandboxes, and SIEMs to validate undetectable variants. Several companies spend the money on the proper tools but don’t have the knowledge to configure them to be truly resilient. Our payloads are built to evade modern security solutions and achieve impactful attacks. Are you ready to validate your endpoint security? Contact us today for a free consultation.
What is Payload Testing?
Payload Testing is a controlled exercise that focuses on designing, deploying, and analyzing payloads to evaluate the effectiveness of your endpoint security solutions. Aevora operators craft payloads with various techniques such as obfuscation, DLL sideloading, process injection, and living-off-the-land binaries (LOLBins) to simulate real-world threat behavior. These payloads are then delivered using diverse initial access methods—phishing documents, removable media, and compromised third-party software—to mimic advanced persistent threat (APT) tactics.
Some key focuses are:
- AV/EDR Bypasses (e.g., ETW patching, process hollowing)
- Network and Host persistence
- Anti-forensic Measures (timestomping, memory-only)
- Platform-specific Hardening (Windows/Linux/Mac)
We craft and deliver stealthy exploits that provide real insight.
Our Methodology
At Aevora, we don’t do one-size-fits-all. Our payload testing follows industry-leading frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK and NIST, tailored to your unique environment. Here’s how we deliver results:
- Scoping & Reconnaissance: We collaborate with you to define target endpoints, defensive tooling and rules of engagement—ensuring zero disruption to your operations. We will also take time to discuss the methods of exploit delivery. Aevora operators will also perform passive reconnaissance during scoping to get a general understanding of the target organization.
- Kick-Off: Aevora operators will craft custom payloads once scoping and discovery is complete. The payloads will then be delivered to test defensive tooling.
- Post-Compromise : What happens after a payload successfully executes and returns us a callback? We generally try more to find key weaknesses. However, in some cases our customers opt for us to continue from a compromised workstation to achieve other goals.
- Comprehensive Reporting & Remediation Guidance : You’ll receive a detailed report with executive summaries, payload testing overview, and recommendations.
All of Aevora’s operators possess the highly coveted OSCP certification. We also have certifications more tailored toward exploit development such as the OSEP. With Aevora you are getting the best and you can have confidence that every test is thorough, confidential, and compliant with standards like PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR.
Why Choose Aevora For Payload Testing?
In a sea of cybersecurity firms, Aevora stands out because we prioritize your success. Here’s what sets us apart:
- Adaptive and Capable: We have crafted numerous payloads to bypass various sytems. From small companies to massive enterprises—we will find every angle and pry with precision and resilience. Aevora operators are required to remain knowledgeable on the latest security trends, tooling, techniques, and endpoint security concepts.
- Rapid Turnaround: Most engagements are completed in 1-2 weeks. Importantly, we are flexible and are ready to work around the timelines that you require.
- Transparent Pricing: Starting at $5,000 per week for standard engagements. While scoping, we will analyze any key goals given for the assessment. Custom goals in some scenarios can impact engagement complexity. These details can fluctuate pricing as every assessment is different.
- Ongoing Partnership: Beyond the engagement, you will have access our threat intelligence feeds and quarterly health checks to stay ahead of emerging risks. This is completely free. We want to be your go-to experts year-round. We prioritize your success.
Who Benefits From Our Payload Testing?
This service is essential for:
IT and Infrastructure Teams: Understand how your systems respond when exposed to real-world malicious payloads. Our testing evaluates how endpoints, email filters, web proxies, and intrusion detection systems handle advanced payloads—helping teams identify weak spots and improve their defensive stack.
Security Teams: Go beyond theoretical vulnerabilities by validating whether actual payloads can bypass your controls. We test payload delivery, execution, and evasion techniques to assess endpoint detection and response (EDR), antivirus, sandboxing, and network monitoring effectiveness. Results support better tuning, threat detection, and incident response.
Organizations Concerned with Advanced Threats: If your threat model includes ransomware, APTs, or zero-day-style attacks, payload testing is critical. We simulate attacker tactics to ensure your defenses are resilient against modern payload delivery and exploitation methods.
Highly Regulated Industries: Prove that your systems are capable of defending against real-world attack methods. Our assessments support compliance with frameworks such as PCI-DSS and HIPAA. This is done by demonstrating practical control validation through safe, controlled testing.
Companies Undergoing Security Audits or Tool Evaluations: Whether preparing for an audit or evaluating a new EDR or SIEM solution, payload testing shows whether your investments are delivering the protection they promise. Our results provide measurable insights into product effectiveness and operational readiness.
Businesses of All Sizes: From lean IT teams to large security operations centers, payload testing adds critical context to your threat landscape. Automated scanners won’t test execution paths or behavioral evasion—our testing provides the depth needed to validate and harden your defenses against today’s most dangerous attack vectors.