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Complete guide to WebSploit

Hello, aspiring ethical hackers. In our previous blogpost, you learnt about man in the Middle attack (MiTM). In this article, you will learn about WebSploit, which is used in MiTM attacks. Websploit is a MiTM framework that can perform various MiTM attacks like arp spoofing, http sniffing, network scanning, wireless scanning, performing de-authentication attacks on wireless networks, creating Wi-Fi fake access points and spamming Wi-Fi network.

Let’s see how this tool works. For this, we will be using Kali Linux as attacker machine as WebSploit is available by default in its repositories. As target system, we will be using Metasploitable 2 installed as part of our virtual hacking lab.

WebSploit can be started using command shown below.

To see all the attacks that can be performed with this tool, use command “show”.

Let’s start by performing network scanning attack with WebSploit. To use a module, use the “use” command. To see all the options a selected module needs, we have to use “options” command as shown below.

The “scan_network” module just requires the IP address and range of network. You can set the options required using “set” command like Metasploit. After all the options are set, execute the module using “execute” command.

As you can see in the above image, all LIVE systems are shown. Similarly, we can perform ARP spoofing attack as shown below. This attack requires two options. The target and gateway IP addresses.

In our previous article on sniffing, you learnt how to sniff HTTP traffic. WebSploit can also be used to perform HTTP sniffing attack. We can perform HTTP sniffing attack as shown below.

As soon as we type “execute” command, this module starts sniffing HTTP traffic. On Metasploitable2, there is DVWA installed by default. From a browser, go to that app.

You can see that the DVWA login page is on HTTP and hence data is transmitted in clear text. Login into DVWA with the credentials shown on the same page.

As soon as you do that, on the attacker system, you can see the credentials captured on WebSploit.

Very soon we will update this article with other attacks that can be performed. Until then, learn about tcpdump tool, an open-source data-network packet analyzer.

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Beginners guide to Sqlsus

Hello, aspiring ethical hackers. In our previous blogpost, you learnt what is SQL injection and different types of SQL injection. In this article, you will learn about Sqlsus, an open-source MYSQL injection and takeover tool.

Sqlsus is a tool written in Perl and we can retrieve the database structure, inject our own SQL commands, download files and even upload and control a backdoor with this tool. Let’s see how this tool works.

For this, we will be using Kali Linux as our attacker system as this tool is available by default in its repositories. As target, I will be using Vulnweb. Vulnweb is a test and demo site that is intentionally kept vulnerable. This test site has been created for testing Acunetix Web vulnerability scanner. You can install Sqlsus on Kali Linux as shown below.

If you face an error while installing this tool that says switch module not being present, you can install switch module as shown below.

You can use the help menu of Sqlsus using command shown below.

sqlsus -h

Sqlsus performs all its operations through a configuration file. We can create the configuration file as shown below.

This is how the configuration file of this tool looks.

All you have to do to start sql injection with Sqlsus is to change one option in the configuration file. Just provide the value of the URL vulnerable to SQL injcetion to the Surl_start variable as shown below.

Save the changes. Then, all you have to do is run sqlsus with the configuration file. Here’s the command to do that.

sudo sqlsus ./sql.cfg

This will create a new session. To start things or in the words of makers of Sqlsus to perform the magic use “Start” command as shown below.

After performing its magic, sqlsus will display the variable values database, user and version. These are set by default in the configuration.

You can also view the above information using command “show target”. Coming to that, the “show” command shows items already fetched via “Get” or “start” commands. It has possible values like “Show target” etc.

Similarly “Show databases” command will show all the databases fetched.

Show database structure

The show db <name of database> can show the structure of specified database, If no database is specified, it will show structure of the current database.

View Tables of current database

The “show tables” command displays all the tables of the current database.

View columns of a particular table

To view the columns of a particular table the command is as shown below. For example, we want to view the columns of “users” table.

show columns <table name>

Of course you can view all the above things at once using “Show all” command.

The “get” command of sqlsus tool gets information of system such as the database structure etc. For example, let’s get the tables of the current database.

Let’s get columns of table “users”.

To view the contents of the table, we can use the select statement. For example, let’s use the select statement to view all the contents the table “users”.

The select command only works when the table columns are already fetched using “get” or “start” commands. For example, there’s a table “artists” on the target system and we can’t get data for that table as shown below.

Now, let’s use get command as shown below to get the columns and try again.

That’s all with Sqlsus. Learn how to perform SQL injection with sqlmap tool.

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Social Engineering Toolkit (SET): Beginners guide

Hello, aspiring ethical hackers. In our previous article, you learnt what is social engineering and various types of social engineering attacks. In this article, you will learn about Social Engineering Toolkit (SET), an open-source pen testing framework designed for performing versatile social engineering attacks.

Let’s see how this tool works. For this, we will be using Kali Linux as SET in installed by default in it. You can start SET using the command shown below.

sudo setoolkit

When it prompts you to agree to “terms of services”, type “Y”.

Then the primary menu of Social Engineering Toolkit is displayed to you.

The primary menu of SET is divided into seven sections. The first one consists of all the social engineering attacks that you can perform with SET tool.

These include attacks like spear phishing, phishing etc. The second one consists of all the penetration testing attacks like MSSQL brute forcing attack etc.

Third in the list is all the third party modules included in SET.

These include attacks like Google analytics attack, RATTE attack etc.

The 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th options are used to update SET, update SET configuration, help and exit option for SET respectively.

Now, let’s see how to perform an attack with SET. For this blogpost, let’s create a infectious media. An infectious media attack is an attack in which a media like DVD,CD or USB drive is infected with malicious payloads and left close to our intended target users. Called a Road apple attack, the idea behind this is that an employee may get enticed by the free media that he got and insert it in his office devices to check what it has. In infectious media attack, the payload hosted in media is configured to run automatically as soon as the device is inserted, This is possible by including a AUTORUN.INF file along with the payload.

To create this attack, I select option 3 in the menu of social engineering attacks.

As you can see in the above image, it will create a metasploit payload along with “AUTORUN.INF” file.

I select the first option, the file format exploit method. After selecting this, you need to enter IP address for the reverse connection (Listener IP address). After doing this, it will prompt you to select the file format you want your payload to take.

By default, it uses the PDF embedded exe. In this, an Exe file is embedded inside the PDF file. I will go with the default option. Next, it will prompt you if your want to use your own PDF or a built in blank PDF for this attack.

For higher success rate of infecting with this attack vector, it is highly recommended to use a custom PDF. However, for this tutorial, I will use the default blank PDF. It’s time to select the payload.

Select the payload you want and assign the listener IP and listener port. These are given automatically by SET tool itself. If you want to make any changes, you can make them. Otherwise, just hit ENTER.

You can start the listener immediately from SET or later through Metasploit. The payload and AUTORUN.INF file are saved “SET”. The attack vector is saved with the name “template.pdf”. This file along with AUTORUN.INF file need to be placed on the media of your choice (CD/DVD/USB), thus completing the infectious media attack.

Learn how to perform a phishing attack with Weeman HTTP server and GoPhish.

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Beginners guide to Bloodhound tool

Hello, aspiring ethical hackers. In this article, you will learn about Bloodhound, an open-source tool that helps in identifying attack paths and relationships in Active Directory environment. Its also useful in uncovering hidden information about domain and security misconfigurations in AD (which would be impossible to find otherwise). Bloodhound is one of the favorite tools of both Red team hackers and Blue Team hackers.

Let’s see how this tool works. For this, we will be using Kali Linux as bloodhound is available by default in its repositories.

Once bloodhound is installed successfully you need to change permissions of the “neo4j” folder as shown below. Ne04i is a native graph database that is used by bloodhound.

Next, we need to start neo4j console as shown below.

It provides a remote interface as the URL as shown in the above image. Click on that URL to access the remote interface. The URL opens in a browser. It will prompt you for authentication. The default username and password for logging into Neo4j is (neo4j;neo4j).

Unless you change the default credentials, Ne04j will not work. So change the password.

Now, Neo4j database is all set. To start bloodhound, use command as shown below.

bloodhound

A browser should automatically open with a login option as shown below. Login with the Neo4j username and the new password you set.

A almost white screen should welcome you as shown below.

Bloodhound is successfully installed and ready to be used. To see how this tool works first we need to collect data belonging to a active directory environment. This can be done using a tool provided by the makers of bloodhound known as SharpHound. Data can be collected using SharpHound as shown below.

However, SharpHound has been giving some errors while collecting data lately. See, if it works for you. There is also some sample data available for download to see the working of bloodhound. This can be downloaded from here. This sample data in the form of zip archive can be uploaded to bloodhound as shown below.

Even uploading of this data is posing some problems. But don’t worry. we will soon be updating this article. Please watch out.

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UNIX privesc check: Complete guide

Hello, aspiring ethical hackers. In our previous blogpost, you learnt about Linux privilege escalation. In this article, you will learn about UNIX privesc check , a tool that will help you in elevating privileges on a Linux and UNIX system.

UNIX privesc check is a shell script that checks for all simple privilege escalation vectors on a UNIX system. This script finds misconfigurations and other settings that could allow local unprivileged users to elevate privileges on a target Linux system.

Let’s see how this tool works. For this, we will be using Kali Linux as this tool is available by default in its repositories. As target system, we will be using Metasploitable 2 installed in our virtual hacking lab.

As it is a local privilege escalation script, it needs to be run on the target system. Obviously, you need to have access on the target system. Learn various methods to gain access to a Linux system in our Linux hacking article. After gaining access, we can use any method to download the UNIX-privesc-check script to the target system.

Next, it can be executed like any other shell script.

Unix privesc check runs in two modes: standard and detailed. In standard mode it performs a speed optimised check of security settings. It can be run in standard mode as shown below.

./unix-privesc-check standard

In the detailed mode, it performs all checks performed in standard mode but additionally it will also perform checks of permissions of open file handles and other files. This mode sis low but can help you find more weaknesses in 3rd party programs. UNIX privesc check can be run in detailed mode using command shown below.

./unix-privesc-ccheck detailed

It is good practice to save the scan output to a file. This can be done as shown below.

Usually this file with scanned output needs to be transferred to the attacker system for analysis. This can be done using tools like netcat or socat. For example, let’s transfer “detailed_output.txt” file to attacker system for observation. While observing the output file, you need to look out for “warning” signs. These allow in privilege escalation of Linux system.

For example, you can see that SUDO is configured in the above image.

This tool has also found one binary with SUID bit set. Learn about SETUID privilege escalation.

It has even found public and private SSH keys which can be used to login to SSH server on target system. Learn about SSH hacking in our comprehensive guide.

That’s how we use this tool. Learn about Windows privesc check, a tool that helps us in elevating privileges on a Window system.