This section deals with attacks related to OWASP Top 10
Most networks have become harder to breach due to increased converged security operations; however there is still a gap that has never moved at the same pace; This issue lies in configuration management which largely is a key downer on most networks. Some of the most common misconfigured devices on any network that usually have[…]
I recently came across a pentest that taught me to love thy scripture; stringent conditions force you to get a different perspective. The client network was abstractly setup as below : The network was fairly good because of the firewall on one end but a few problems became evident leading to the attack surface[…]
XXE (Extensible Markup Language External Entity) is a common type of injection which occurs in applications that fail to sanitize XML input; This is particularly common with web services. The XML input in a webservice can be considered as a description of data so that two systems can have a common language to communicate with[…]
Many a times we get caught in the trap of a server is shelled but there is nothing to go on with ; Today we will look at one such possibility that is faced. You have a webshell on a server however you want to use old fashioned netcat or socat to connect to it[…]
Ladies and gentlemen ; I have gathered you here today to discuss the life of another fallen one. It is with great sadness that we announce the LFI on BOA webserver ; BOA is a favorite among many using embedded nix systems to use as a webserver due to its efficiency but alas it has[…]
In the recent leak from shadow brokers; here has been great uptake in using the scripts. Some of the things to note though are that the script works on : Python 2.6 (32 bit) pywin32 (32 bit) Solving the problems with this requirement ; I will highlight the 2 most common: Running a different version of[…]
WoAnyone been in those annoying forums where people want a “facebook hacking application” . It was passed down to us that tough love and lessons are the best way to make people good at stuff. So enters the problem : Facebook Hacking Application ? -> the question itself warrants suicide but oh well If you[…]
Credential harvesting is one of the most common methods used in social engineering attacks when phishing. A sample can be viewed here. Some things about the cloner in social engineering toolkit: It doesn’t download assets i.e. images, css, javascript files The page cloned needs to be always reachable I will be testing this on chrome[…]
In the previous article we built the check method and all went well; now the last bit is build the exploit method and clean up. Exploit method Moving right into the code, I will explain the important parts that may be relatively new ; Line 52 helps us generate the payload Line 53 helps us give[…]
In the previous article we covered the initialize method. So moving on to the juice stuff the check and exploit methods. Enter Check Method The check method is simple. we have already declared all we need to use so now lets put everything into good use. Similar to our previous python based exploit ; we[…]