Greetings, and I hope you’re all having a great holiday!
My Christmas present to you, the community, is dnscat2 version 0.05!
Some of you will remember that I recently gave a talk at the SANS Hackfest Summit. At the talk, I mentioned some ideas for future plans. That’s when Ed jumped on the stage and took a survey: which feature did the audience want most?
The winner? Tunneling TCP via a dnscat. So now you have it! Tunneling: Phase 1. :)
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Live from the SANS Pentest Summit, I’m excited to announce the latest beta release of dnscat2: 0.04! Besides some minor cleanups and UI improvements, there is one serious improvement: all dnscat2 sessions are now encrypted by default!
Read on for some user information, then some implementation details for those who are interested! For all the REALLY gory information, check out the protocol doc!
Continue readingIt’s no secret that I love DNS. It’s an awesome protocol. It’s easy to understand and easy to implement. It’s also easy to get dangerously wrong, but that’s a story for last weeka few weeks ago. :)
I want to talk about interesting implication of DNS’s design decisions that benefit us, as penetration testers. It’s difficult to describe these decisions as good or bad, it’s just what we have to work with.
What I DON’T want to talk about today is DNS poisoning or spoofing, or similar vulnerabilities. While cool, it generally requires the attacker to take advantage of poorly configured or vulnerable DNS servers.
Technically, I’m also releasing a tool I wrote a couple weeks ago: dnslogger.rb that replaces an old tool I wrote a million years ago.
Continue readingIf you know me, you know that I love DNS. I’m not exactly sure how that happened, but I suspect that Ed Skoudis is at least partly to blame.
Anyway, a project came up to evaluate dnsmasq, and being a DNS server - and a key piece of Internet infrastructure - I thought it would be fun! And it was! By fuzzing in a somewhat creative way, I found a really cool vulnerability that’s almost certainly exploitable (though I haven’t proven that for reasons that’ll become apparent later).
Although I started writing an exploit, I didn’t finish it. I think it’s almost certainly exploitable, so if you have some free time and you want to learn about exploit development, it’s worthwhile having a look! Here’s a link to the actual distribution of a vulnerable version, and I’ll discuss the work I’ve done so far at the end of this post.
You can also download my branch, which is similar to the vulnerable version (branched from it), the only difference is that it contains a bunch of fuzzing instrumentation and debug output around parsing names.
Continue readingAs I promised during my 2014 Derbycon talk (amongst other places), this is an initial release of my complete re-write/re-design of the dnscat service / protocol. It’s now a standalone tool instead of being bundled with nbtool, among other changes. :)
I’d love to have people testing it, and getting feedback is super important to me! Even if you don’t try this version, hearing that you’re excited for a full release would be awesome. The more people excited for this, the more I’m encouraged to work on it! In case you don’t know it, my email address is listed below in a couple places.
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This is my writeup for Whatscat, just about the easiest 300-point Web level I’ve ever solved! I wouldn’t normally do a writeup about a level like this, but much like the mtpox level I actually wrote the exact tool for exploiting this, and even wrote a blog post about it almost exactly 4 years ago - April of 2010. Unlike mtpox, this tool isn’t the least bit popular, but it sure made my life easy!
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Two weeks ago today, Microsoft released a bunch of bulletins for Patch Tuesday. One of them - ms11-058 - was rated critical and potentially exploitable. However, according to Microsoft, this is a simple integer overflow, leading to a huge memcpy leading to a DoS and nothing more. I disagree.
Although I didn’t find a way to exploit this vulnerability, there’s more to this vulnerability than meets the eye - it’s fairly complicated, and there are a number of places that I suspect an experienced exploit developer might find a way to take control.
In this post, I’m going to go over step by step how I reverse engineered this patch, figured out how this could be attacked, and why I don’t believe the vulnerability is as simple as the reports seem to indicate.
Oh, and before I forget, the Nessus Security Scanner from Tenable Network Security (my employer) has both remote and local checks for this vulnerability, so if you want to check your network go run Nessus now!
Continue readingLast year (if this intro doesn’t work, I give up trying to post this :) ), I presented at B-Sides Ottawa, which was put on by Andrew Hay and others (and sorry I waited so long before posting this… I kept revising it and not publishing). I got to give a well received talk, meet a lot of great folks, see Ottawa for the first time, and learn that I am a good solid Security D-lister. w00t!
Before I talk about the fun part, where I completely faked out my demo, if you want the slides you can grab them here: http://svn.skullsecurity.org:81/ron/security/2010-11-bsides-ottawa/. You can find more info about the conference and people’s slides at the official site. And finally, here’s a picture of me trying to look casual.
B-sides conferences, for those of you who don’t know, are awesome little conferences that often (but not always) piggyback on other conferences. They are free (or cheap), run by volunteers, and have raw and technical talks. B-sides Ottawa was no exception, and I’m thrilled I had the chance to not only see it, but take part in it. I really hope to run our own B-sides Winnipeg next year!
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I just released the second alpha build of nbtool (0.05alpha2), and I’m hoping to get a few testers to give me some feedback before I release 0.05 proper. I’m pretty happy with the 0.05 release, but it’s easy for me to miss things as the developer.
I’m hoping for people to test:
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Today seemed like a fun day to write about a really cool vector for cross-site scripting I found. In my testing, this attack is pretty specific and, in some ways, useless, but I strongly suspect that, with resources I don’t have access to, this can trigger stored cross-site scripting in some pretty nasty places. But I’ll get to that!
Interestingly enough, between the time that I wrote this blog/tool and published it, nCircle researchers have said almost the same thing (paper (pdf)). The major difference is, I released a tool to do it and demonstrate actual examples.
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I’ve been letting other projects slip these last couple weeks because I was excited about converting dnscat into shellcode (or “weaponizing dnscat”, as I enjoy saying). Even though I got into the security field with reverse engineering and writing hacks for games, I have never written more than a couple lines of x86 at a time, nor have I ever written shellcode, so this was an awesome learning experience. Most people start by writing shellcode that spawns a local shell; I decided to start with shellcode that implements a dnscat client in under 1024 bytes (for both Linux and Windows). Like I always say, go big or go home!
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I’m really excited to announce the first release of a tool I’ve put a lot of hard work into: dnscat.
It’s being released, along with a bunch of other tools that I’ll be blogging about, as part of nbtool 0.04.
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