Monday, December 29, 2014

DevOoops


DevOoops

Ken Johnson and I gave a talk on going after Devops tools at Lascon in October.  Slides for the talk are below: LasCon 2014 DevOoops from Chris Gates The talk was recorded, once the talk is posted somewhere I'll update my vimeo channel with the talk. ...

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CG

Friday, October 31, 2014

Quick and Dirty Oracle Brute Forcing


Quick and Dirty Oracle Brute Forcing

Here is a quick bash script to wrap sqlplus for some brute forcing if for whatever reason nmap is failing to get the job done...and thus metasploit is failing to get the job done since the oracle_login module just calls nmap #!/bin/bash INPUT=oracle_defaults.csv OLDIFS=$IFS IFS=, [ ! -f $INPUT ] ...

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CG

Friday, October 17, 2014


Its nice to see smart people in the industry like Dave Aitel (https://lists.immunityinc.com/pipermail/dailydave/2014-October/000769.html, http://seclists.org/dailydave/2013/q3/65) catching up to things we have been quietly providing to our clients for years. Attack Simulation and Threat Response / ...

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valsmith

Friday, June 13, 2014

Mimikatz Against Virtual Machine Memory Part 2


Mimikatz Against Virtual Machine Memory Part 2

Short update to talk about mostly performing the actions from Part 1 on Windows 8+ and Windows Server 2012 First issue was symbols in windbg. Most importantly, NO symbols for windbg. I found this article that lets you remotely download them: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311503 .sympath ...

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CG

Friday, May 30, 2014

Mimikatz Against Virtual Machine Memory Part 1


Mimikatz Against Virtual Machine Memory Part 1

Pentesting is a funny thing. Someone will drop some new way of doing something and then you get to reflect on all those missed opportunities on previous engagements. I remember when MC showed me all the Oracle stuff and I reminisced about the missed shells. This post and part 2 ...

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CG

Friday, May 23, 2014

Nagios and NPRE


Nagios and NPRE

Just a note for me for later as other blogs have been tending to disappear lately and so I don't get unduly excited when I see a nagios NRPE exploit/bug as there are a few obstacles to overcome. Very detailed writeup for my summarized notes below: https://www.cryptobells.com/zomg-remote-shell-exploit-or-not/ Nagios ...

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CG

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

DNS Brute String


DNS Brute String

just sticking this here so i can find it later. thanks @mubix cat hosts.txt | xargs -t -I subdomain dig +noall subdomain.THEDOMAIN.com +answer update, rob pointed me to his post on it http://www.room362.com/blog/2014/01/29/hostname-bruteforcing-on-the-chea ...

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CG

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Webmin Brute Forcing


Webmin Brute Forcing

So i ran across a bunch of webmin boxes on a pentest. I went to just go try http_login or some other spiffy Metasploit auxiliary module but nothing was working quite right. I ended up needing to write my own because i had about 60+ hosts to check and that just tedious enough to make you write code ...

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CG

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Finding malicious DLLs with Volatility


Finding malicious DLLs with Volatility

Colin and I were working on an memory image the other day and needed to find DLLs loaded by svchost.exe. We turned to everyone's default memory analysis tool Volatility. Volatility doesn't really give you a good option to search for loaded dlls by process name. You can specify ...

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Anonymous

Thursday, January 2, 2014

Modern Day Gold Mining


Modern Day Gold Mining

Well maybe not Gold...but Litecoins, hobonickels, dodgecoins, and other kinds of *coins* We've all heard about Bitcoins (BTC) and all wish we had bought a few hundred 2 years ago so we could retire today but who knew... We'll its too late to get in the bitcoin game due to the ...

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CG