May 4th, 2020
Evil SQL Client Console: Msbuild All the Things
Evil SQL Client (ESC) is an interactive .net SQL console client that supports enhanced SQL Server discovery, access, and data exfiltration capabilities.
April 30th, 2020
Introduction to Hacking Thick Clients: Part 1 – the GUI
Introduction to Hacking Thick Clients is a series of blog posts that will outline many of the tools and methodologies used when performing thick client security assessments. In conjunction with these posts, NetSPI has released two vulnerable thick clients: BetaFast, a premier Betamax movie rental service, and Beta Bank, a premier finance application for the […]
April 27th, 2020
Introducing BetaFast – NetSPI’s Vulnerable Thick Client
Another vulnerable application is being unleashed into the world. Developed here at NetSPI, BetaFast is a vulnerable thick client application and valuable resource for practicing security testing. History Years ago, a NetSPI consultant was venturing into the basement of our office building to retrieve some fresh fingerless gloves from storage. Wandering through the scarcely lit […]
April 16th, 2020
Gathering Bearer Tokens from Azure Services
In the previous Azure Managed Identities blog, we covered some simple proof of concept examples for using Azure Virtual Machine Managed Identities to escalate privileges in an Azure subscription. The example code relied on Azure OAuth bearer tokens that were generated from authenticating to the Azure metadata service. Since posting that blog, we’ve found a […]
March 30th, 2020
Decrypting Azure VM Extension Settings with Get-AzureVMExtensionSettings
TL;DR If you’re a local admin on an Azure VM, run the Get-AzureVMExtensionSettings script from MicroBurst to decrypt VM extension settings and potentially view sensitive parameters, storage account keys and local Administrator username and password. Overview The Azure infrastructure needs a mechanism to communicate with and control virtual machines. All Azure Marketplace images have the […]
March 27th, 2020
Linux Hacking Case Studies Part 5: Building a Vulnerable Linux Server
This blog will share how to configure your own vulnerable Linux server so you can practice building and breaking at home.
March 26th, 2020
Linux Hacking Case Studies Part 4: Sudo Horror Stories
This blog will cover different ways to approach SSH password guessing and attacking sudo applications to gain a root shell on a Linux system.
March 25th, 2020
Linux Hacking Case Studies Part 3: phpMyAdmin
This blog will walkthrough how to attack insecure phpMyAdmin configurations and world writable files to gain a root shell on a Linux system.
March 24th, 2020
Linux Hacking Case Studies Part 2: NFS
This blog will walk through how to attack insecure NFS exports and setuid configurations in order to gain a root shell on a Linux system.