Blog Posts Tagged with "Pentesting"
Let Me out Of Your .NET Work: Server Build
September 19, 2012 Added by:Rob Fuller
First you have to get rid of all other services. That’s harder than you would first assume, because you have to admin the box some how. You could toss SSH on a really high port, or have some kind of backend management, or just remove things from running on a multi-IP’d box...
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Let Me Out of Your .NET Work: Intro
September 05, 2012 Added by:Rob Fuller
The problem I find with these tools is that they are still straight TCP. I know most networks still allow some ports directly outbound and these tools are still quite valid. During the span between these two tools being released, MrB released a site that listens on all 65k ports...
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Social Engineering Toolkit: Bypassing Antivirus Using Powershell
August 22, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
Just when it looked like antivirus was getting the upper hand against the Social Engineering Toolkit, David Kennedy, author of SET, showed some of the program’s new features. One is a way to get a remote shell by completely bypassing Anti-Virus using a Windows Powershell attack. Let’s look at how this works...
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Metasploitable 2.0 pt 4: Cracking Linux Passwords and Pentesting with Grep
August 20, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
Because we had a root shell, we were able to grab the Linux password hashes from the system by simply copying them and pasting them on our local machine. We were then able to use John the Ripper to crack them. We now have passwords to play with...
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Bypassing TrendMicro's Service Protections
August 20, 2012 Added by:Rob Fuller
It's injecting our payload into the service binary and tossing our payload into "rundll32.exe" at run time on the victim. Lets change this so it doesn't do any injection and just executes a binary. That removes the 'injection' piece and hopefully lets us get our shell...
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Billions of Hashes per Second with Multiforcer Password Cracker
August 07, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
So what does it take to reach cracking speeds topping 154 Billion hashes per second with multiple hashes? The tool was created to help out pentesters who need to crack passwords, but can not submit hashes obtained to online cracking programs due to auditing agreement restrictions...
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Companies That Give Back with Free Tools
July 25, 2012 Added by:Rob Fuller
Penetration Testing / Red Teaming requires the use of a lot of tools. I don't mind getting called a "script kiddie" because I can accomplish more and faster when I don't have to code every single task I need to do. This post is to point out companies that make this possible and give a small bit of thanks...
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Netstat Post Module for Meterpreter
July 20, 2012 Added by:Rob Fuller
It's real simple, first we've gotta add the GetTcpTable function to Railgun, then gauge the size of the table, then it's all just parsing the result. Also pretty straight forward. First we get the number of entries which is held in the first 4 bytes, then just parse the MIB_TCPTABLE one MIB_TCPROW...
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The Perils Of Automation In Vulnerability Assessment
June 25, 2012 Added by:Ian Tibble
“Run a scanner by it” still appears in so many articles – it's still very much part of the furniture. Software suites are built on the use of automated unauthenticated scanning – in some cases taking an open source scanning engine, wrapping a nice GUI around it, and slapping a 25K USD price tag on it...
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Wireshark: Listening to VoIP Conversations from Packet Captures
June 24, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
A lot of telephones and communication devices now use VoIP to communicate over the internet. I was wondering how hard it would be to listen to a VoIP phone call if you had a packet capture that included the call. Well, come to find out, it is not hard at all. The feature is built into Wireshark - here's how...
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SecureState Contributes to the SQLMap Project
June 18, 2012 Added by:Spencer McIntyre
Custom-coded applications make SQLi very difficult to exploit in an automated fashion, and most of detection tools are particularly effective against only a few select Database Management Systems (DBMSes). However, the open source SQLMap tool is capable of exploiting a variety of DBMSes....
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Recovering Clear Text Passwords – Updated
June 13, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
When I wrote about WCE last, I noticed that for some reason the output didn’t seem right for accounts that did not have passwords. WCE seemed to mirror a password from another account when a password was not present. Hernan from Amplia Security (creator of WCE) created a fix for this...
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Recovering Remote Windows Passwords in Plain Text with WCE
June 05, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
After obtaining a remote session using Backtrack’s Social Engineering Toolkit, I ran Bypassuac to get System level authority and at the Meterpreter prompt simply ran wce.rb. Mimikatz seems to do a better job at recovering passwords, but WCE is just as easy to use. Both offer other features and functions...
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Metasploit: The Penetration Tester’s Guide - A Review
May 28, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
The exploiting sections are very good, covering the famous exploitation techniques of attacking MS SQL, dumping password hashes, pass the hash & token impersonation, killing anti-virus and gathering intelligence from the system to pivot deeper into the target network...
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Metasploitable: Gaining Root on a Vulnerable Linux System
May 22, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
Metasploitable is a great platform to practice and develop your penetration testing skills. In this tutorial, I will show you how to scan the system, find one of the vulnerable services, and then exploit the service to gain root access...
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Guessable Passwords: The Unpatchable Exploit
May 20, 2012 Added by:f8lerror
During penetration assessments the tester attempts to compromise systems. Many users take short cuts with passwords, this is because they feel they are not a target, not important, or their access doesn’t matter. Penetration testers know this and so do the attackers...
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