February 27th, 2018
Take Him Away, Boys – Creating a Get-Out-of-Jail Letter
Failure is a fact of life and it’s doubly true when it comes to security. On-site social engineering is a unique beast and it carries its own issues when it comes to failure. While it’s easy enough to modify your payload to bypass a WAF or just hang-up the phone when the phish isn’t biting, […]
February 13th, 2018
Attacks Against Windows PXE Boot Images
If you’ve ever run across insecure PXE boot deployments during a pentest, you know that they can hold a wealth of possibilities for escalation. Gaining access to PXE boot images can provide an attacker with a domain joined system, domain credentials, and lateral or vertical movement opportunities. This blog outlines a number of different methods […]
January 9th, 2018
Four Ways to Bypass Android SSL Verification and Certificate Pinning
Gone are the days when mobile applications stoically ignored all manner of SSL errors and allowed you to intercept and modify their traffic at will. Instead, most modern applications at least check that the certificate presented chains to a valid, trusted certificate authority (CA). As pentesters, we’d like to convince the app that our certificate […]
January 2nd, 2018
Microsoft Word – UNC Path Injection with Image Linking
Microsoft Word is an excellent attack vector during a penetration test. From web application penetration tests to red team engagements, Word documents can be used to grab NetNTLM hashes or prove insufficient egress filtering on a network. There has been an abundance of quality research done on Word attack vectors. If you haven’t had a […]
December 19th, 2017
NetSPI SQL Injection Wiki
As penetration testers, the tools, information, and knowledge we have available to us directly correlates to the amount of entry points we can identify and exploit in any environment. The longer we spend researching and developing individual escalation paths reduces the amount of time for digging into other parts of the network or application. Below […]
November 20th, 2017
Speaking to a City of Amazon Echoes
Amazon recently introduced messaging and calling between Echo devices. This allows Echo device owners to communicate to each other via text messages, audio recordings, and voice calls. It’s pretty handy for leaving someone a short note, or for a quick call, but as a hacker, I was more curious about the potential security issues associated […]
September 26th, 2017
DNS Tunneling with Burp Collaborator
DNS tunneling, in my opinion, is the niftiest data exfiltration method there is. For those not familiar, check out Section 3 from SANS’s “Detecting DNS Tunneling” whitepaper here. Our Mobile Application Practice Lead, Aaron Yaeger, recently taught me how easy it is to use Burp Collaborator for DNS tunneling. Exfiltrating data like that was a bit […]
August 15th, 2017
dataLoc: A POC Tool for Finding Payment Cards Stored in MSSQL
In this blog I’ll be introducing dataLoc, a tool for locating payment cards in MSSQL databases without requiring the presence of keywords. dataLoc would be useful for anyone that would like to check their database for payment card numbers in unexpected places. This could include; DBAs, pen-testers, auditors, and others. dataLoc Overview At its core, […]
August 2nd, 2017
Identifying Payment Cards at Rest – Going Beyond the Key Word Search
In this blog, I’ll be discussing an approach for locating payment card numbers stored in MSSQL databases without relying on key words for data discovery. To overcome the impracticality of pulling an entire database over the wire for advanced analysis, we’ll focus on using MSSQL’s native capability to filter out items that can’t contain cardholder […]
