Intro One of my favorite post-ex metasploit modules is smb_login. It's great for running a quick test using credentials you've discovered. One of the problems with it is that there is nothing that...
Penetration Testing
Weaponizing Nessus
Once in a blue moon we come across a client that has truly done security right (or at least, tried really hard to do so). All the low hanging fruit has been trimmed: Responder doesn't work, no...
Update to ProxyCannon
ProxyCannon, which can be found here, has undergone some revisions since our initial release and as a result, there's some new features we'd like to introduce. Cleaner User Interface We've...
VPN over DNS
Overview For some time now, we've been using DNSCat as a means to covertly transmit data during engagements where clients IDS's or Firewalls might otherwise block us. The DNS protocol is often...
Websocket Based Egress Buster
Problem It is common during a penetration test that a tester may run into the problem of figuring out which ports and maybe even which protocols are allowed out of an environment. This is due to the...
Abusing Exchange Web Service – Part 1
Outlook Web Access (OWA) has been one of the consistently viable attack vectors for pentesters and bad guys alike for many years. Frequently, an attacker will obtain valid credentials by brute...
Why Security Awareness Training Fails
First, let's talk about what "failure" is and is not in the context of Security Awareness Training (SAT). Failure is not when a company gets breached due to social engineering. Wait, what?? All the...
Assisted directory brute forcing
Very frequently during a web application assessment a pentester may begin by fingerprinting what web frameworks and libraries are used by a given application. Possibly by running a tool such as...
crEAP – Harvesting Users on Enterprise Wireless Networks
With the demands of a mobile workforce, wireless networks in enterprise environments are quite common. Typically, enterprise wireless networks employ WPA-Enterprise security features, which removes...
[UPDATE] Creating your own private botnet for scanning.
This is an update to an older post that can be found here. Since createProxy's initial release, we've received some great feedback and, as a result, we made some improvements. There were several...