Red Team RF Attacks on Antenna & RF Systems Fundamentals Training by Tonex
Modern wireless surfaces are an attack plane. This course equips red teams to analyze, emulate, and execute RF-layer exploit paths against antennas, front ends, and beamforming chains—then translate findings into concrete blue-team mitigations. You’ll learn how fingerprints and sidelobes betray systems, how deceptive beams and cross-band tactics subvert controls, and how adversaries chain PHY-layer effects to upper-layer disruption. Impact on cybersecurity is direct and material: RF compromises can bypass IP-layer defenses, blind sensors, and leak mission data. Strengthening antenna-to-protocol resilience reduces attack surface, improves detection fidelity, and hardens cyber-physical operations where uptime and integrity matter most.
Learning Objectives
- Map RF attack surfaces across antenna, feeder, and transceiver paths
- Execute antenna fingerprinting and feature-level identification
- Analyze sidelobe energy to discover covert ingress/egress vectors
- Apply beam deception and power/phase tricks to mislead arrays
- Translate red-team findings into defensible blue-team controls
- Articulate how RF-layer compromise escalates to cybersecurity risk across systems
Audience
- Cybersecurity Professionals
- Red/Blue/Purple Team Operators
- RF and Wireless Engineers
- EW and SIGINT Analysts
- Systems and Test Engineers
- Security Architects and Mission Assurance Leads
Module 1 – RF Attack Surface Primer
- Antenna and front-end weak points
- Propagation, fading, and exploit leverage
- Receiver desense and blocking pathways
- Impedance, mismatch, and leakage cues
- Firmware, DSP, and control-plane ties
- Red-to-blue threat modeling workflow
Module 2 – Antenna Fingerprinting Tactics
- Feature vectors and spectral traits
- Modulation-induced hardware signatures
- Transient and turn-on behavior profiling
- Clock, PA, and LO artifact extraction
- Classifier pitfalls and evasion patterns
- Blue-team masking and randomization
Module 3 – Sidelobe Exploitation Methods
- Array patterns and energy sidelobes
- Hidden channels via pattern nulls
- Angle-of-arrival confusion tricks
- Payload exfil through off-boresight paths
- Interference shaping with low probability
- Defensive beam shaping and filtering
Module 4 – Beam Deception and Misalignment
- Phase/amp perturbation to spoof beams
- Pilot contamination in adaptive arrays
- Null steering abuse and mispointing
- Time-varying beam hop deception
- Range/angle biasing against sensors
- Counter-controls and calibration guards
Module 5 – Cross-Band Attack Strategies
- Harmonic and intermod coupling routes
- Out-of-band injection and fold-in
- Mixing products to mask presence
- Cross-technology leverage scenarios
- Regulatory masks and real risk windows
- Blue-team monitoring across bands
Module 6 – Findings to Countermeasures
- Prioritizing fixes by exploitability
- Pattern hygiene and emission control
- PHY-to-SOC alerts and fusion logic
- Firmware hardening and update cadence
- Red/blue validation playbooks and KPIs
- Continuous RF cyber resilience roadmap
Ready to outpace adversaries at the physical layer and translate RF tradecraft into measurable cybersecurity resilience? Enroll your team in Tonex’s Red Team RF Attacks on Antenna & RF Systems Fundamentals and harden your mission from antenna to application.