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Year: 2018

2018-09-27

Tachyon – A Security Pros Paradise

I recently had the privilege to perform full scope application security testing against 1E’s Tachyon, an endpoint incident response and remediation platform. I was so impressed with it, I sought (and received) approval from 1E to release this article publicly, detailing my impressions. Earlier this year, 1E and I began dialoguing about the possibility of evaluating […]

2018-09-20

Binary File Patching – Echo Command

Here is a single line Windows batch command which renames and patches a binary in order to avoid detection. The Problem Many detections that look for malicious or uncommon usage of built-in Windows tools/utilities (i.e. attackers living-of-the-land) depend on well-known file/process names (ex. powershell.exe). But, if defenders are also monitoring for the well known checksums […]

2018-09-15

Burp+SSLintercept with Kali+Docker+Java+Python+Browser

I couldn’t find a single source for setting this up, so I thought I would copy/paste my notes for others to reference. Feedback appreciated. The goal is to proxy all http-80 and https-443 traffic in a docker/OS stack through Burp with (trusted) SSL intercept. My Environment: Notes: The Steps – Host OS: Install Burp from […]

2018-09-13

Passwords in DB Logs

This was useful (for an attacker) when password hashing (during authentication) was being performed at the DB level. Background Having access to a DB with encrypted (and salted) password hashes can still present a challenge to recovering a significant percentage of the cleartext passwords.  Sure, one will be able to crack some using a decent […]

2018-09-10

Finding Vulns in JARs with Spotbugs

How to find security vulnerabilities in JARs with SpotBugs… [Note: burpsuite is just being used as an example] Spotbugs is awesome.  But, the instructions for compiling it and running as a standalone app were not that clear to me.  Because of this, I decided to put together the rather simple steps below. Prerequisites Decompile the […]

2018-08-15

A Vulnerability Disclosure Gone Wrong

An example of a vulnerability disclosure gone wrong… Background I debated mentioning the company but will resist.  While making a contribution through a well-known payment processing app, I discovered a vulnerability.  It was an OWASP top-10 vulnerability and was discoverable while doing nothing more than using the app as a normal-ish user would.  Okay, true, […]

2018-08-11

Shields Down Security Testing

Should security testing (vulnerability scanning, web app pentesting, etc.) be performed through a full protection stack (firewall, IPS, WAF, email filter, etc.) or not? Some may answer with an initial gut reaction of, “Of course. It should be through whatever protection solutions are typically in place so it will most accurately reflect what an attacker […]

2018-08-07

My Disclosure Process

Here are my disclosure processes and guidelines. This is for those discoveries which seem to just fall in my lap while causally using and/or seeing a product. My disclosure process is an attempt to do the right thing when this happens. Note: NDA-protected discoveries (ex. through a client engagement) would not be subject to this. My […]

2018-07-24

Create a macOS High Sierra VM

After struggling for many hours to get macOS (High Sierra) running in a VM (Virtualbox) on a Linux host (Ubuntu/Mint), I finally succeeded.  Although there were dozens of really good tutorials on the topic, none of them were a 100% solution to my specific situation. Here’s what I did to get it working. Notes: Step […]

2018-06-20

Bruteforce and Join Skype Meetings

I was able to find and join several random @SkypeBusiness meetings today… Step #1: Discover Companies Using Skype intitle:"Skype for Business Web App" "Skype for Business Web App" Step #2: Find Usernames inurl:http://example.com intitle:"skype|lync" Step #3: Bruteforce Meeting IDs Bruteforce meeting IDs to find meetings to join.  Exploit is not being released at this time. […]

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