hacking your website with vega, confoo2011

Hacking Your Website With David Mirza, Subgraph Technologies Montreal http://www.subgraph.com

Introduc>on  Who we are  Open-‐source security startup  Based in Montreal  Experienced founders: o Secure Networks Inc. o SecurityFocus (Symantec) o Core Security Technologies o Ne>fera o REcon http://www.subgraph.com

About us  Subgraph is an open source security company  Helping organiza>ons protect their websites o Building high quality soRware o Penetra>on tes>ng o Code / architecture review  Incorporated in February 2010  Philosophy of openness important to us o More than just releasing the code http://www.subgraph.com

Open Source and Security I say!  Kerckhoﬀs’ principle  Auguste Kerckhoﬀs: 19th Century Dutch linguist and cryptographer  Made an important realiza>on: o “The security of any cryptographic system does not rest in its secrecy, it must be able to fall into the enemy’s hands without inconvenience” o More succinctly, the adversary knows the system  As opposed to “security through obscurity” http://www.subgraph.com

Open Source and Security  Kerckhoﬀs’ Principle  Well understood in the world of cryptography o New ciphers are not trusted without public scru>ny over years o Because cryptography is used as a “black box”  It’s the only way to be sure o Once in a while, less now, companies try to market proprietary ciphers  There’s a term for this: “snake oil”  But what about everyone else? http://www.subgraph.com

Beyond Cryptography  Security Research Community  Ac>ve, global community of passionate professionals, amateurs, students and hackers o Collabora>ve o Open  Examples o Phrack magazine o Bugtraq o Defcon o Blackhat o REcon!  This community changed the soRware industry  Full-‐disclosure won  Beaer security for all  Bug boun>es o Google, Mozilla http://www.subgraph.com

Open Source and Security  Tools  These researchers write tools o Exploits o Network security (e.g. nmap)  Enough to have specialized, dedicated LiveCDs.. o BackTrack – Penetra>on tes>ng LiveCD o Helix – Forensics LiveCD  The security industry owes all so much o Grassroots, open source innova>on o Some open source projects became commercial successes  Snort IDS  Metasploit http://www.subgraph.com

Open Source and Security  Open source has always been a part of security  Collabora>ve, open research  Open source tool development  Kerckhoﬀs’ Law: open code scru>ny  Means beaer security, in general  Open source security soRware  Is more trustworthy: read the source, compile it yourself  No worries, no maaer where in the world you live  Why doesn’t everyone demand open source for security? http://www.subgraph.com

Open Source and Security  Web applica>on security  Followed the same path  Collabora>ve, open research, advocacy o E.g. OWASP  Great open source tools, frameworks  Also, the cueng edge of web applica>on development  En>rely open source! http://www.subgraph.com

Web Security Timeline http://www.subgraph.com

Commercial Web Security SoRware  Advantages of commercial tools  Ease of installa>on, upgrade, use  User experience  Quality Assurance, bug ﬁxing  Documenta>on/Help  Development driven by demand/need  Disadvantages  Expensive  Bizarre license restric>ons  EOL, acquisi>ons, other events  Proprietary, closed source http://www.subgraph.com

Open Source Web Security SoRware  Since I’ve already talked about the advantages..  Disadvantages  No integra>on / sharing of data between the various tools  Poor or non-‐existent UI, documenta>on, help  Painful, broken installa>ons  Code is of inconsistent quality  Developer, contributor unreliability  Development driven by whim, interest, skill level  Forks  Abandonment  o Developer ﬁnished college, got a job o Successfully reproduced http://www.subgraph.com

Exis>ng Landscape of Web Tools  There are very good commercial tools  HP, IBM, Qualys  SAAS, such as Whitehat  NetSparker  BurpSuite (free version available)  Expensive  Some free/community versions, crippled  Proprietary http://www.subgraph.com

Open Source Tools  There are also some fantas>c open source tools  Specialized o Various specialized fuzzers o Standalone proxies o Standalone scanners o Standalone brute-‐forcing tools  They do not share a data model o Integrate them yourself  In our experience: o Some>mes buggy o Last commit was in 2008.. o Broken user interfaces http://www.subgraph.com

Free/Open Source Web Security Tools http://www.subgraph.com

Our Vision  One web, one web security tool  Open source  Consistent, well-‐designed UI  Func>ons really well as an automated scanner o Shouldn’t need to be a penetra>on tester o Advanced features for those who are  User extensibility o Community  Plus all that boring stuﬀ o Documenta>on, help, business friendly features http://www.subgraph.com

Hi, My Name Is:  Vega is a web-‐applica>on security scanner  It ﬁnds vulnerabili>es in your website  Wriaen in Java, runs on:  Mac OS X  Windows  Linux  A desktop applica>on with a nice GUI  Eclipse RCP http://www.subgraph.com

Introducing VEGA  Currently two modes of opera>on  Automated scanner o Point and click hacking  Intercep>ng proxy o Instrumenta>on o Manual closer inspec>on o Penetra>on tes>ng http://www.subgraph.com

Scanner  Automated scanner  Crawls your web applica>on recursively  Analyzes links  Runs a configurable set of audit and aaack ac>ons on these links  Limited brute forcing  Tests parameters for favorites, such as: o Reflected, persistent XSS o SQL injec>on o Command injec>on o Local file include o Local file reading  Tries to iden>fy server misconfigura>ons http://www.subgraph.com

Proxy  Intercep>ng proxy  Intercepts requests, responses o Based on request method o Filters  Can be edited  Requests can be replayed or created  Data decoding and encoding  Customized automa>c manipula>on of requests, responses  Response processing scanner modules http://www.subgraph.com

What’s Inside  Architecture  Eclipse RCP  Modularity of design enforced with OSGI  Using Apache HTTPComponents  JSoup  Google Guava  DB4O  Rhino JS Interpreter http://www.subgraph.com

Extensibility  Extending Vega with ease  Scrip>ng of custom modules o Javascript o DOM, JQuery o Clean, sensible API  Scrip>ng of proxy o Automated manipula>on of intercepted requests, responses  Custom alerts o XML Templates http://www.subgraph.com

VEGA DEMO http://www.subgraph.com

Current Status  We are really close  Finish a few features  Polish  Tes>ng  Fixing bugs  Documenta>on  User  Developer  Help  Beta!  Mid-‐April http://www.subgraph.com

Future  Fun stuﬀ  Penetra>on tes>ng o Exploita>on of vulnerabili>es o Support for advanced aaacks  Brute Forcing o Directories o Username/password  Fuzzing o E.g. A really good web services fuzzer  Specialized support for audi>ng apps o CakePHP, Rails, J2EE  Less fun  Really nice repor>ng http://www.subgraph.com

Thank you! Interested?  Web  E-‐mail us  hap://www.subgraph.com  info@subgraph.com  Twiaer  MTLSEC  Company: @subgraph (we’ve been quiet)  If you’re in Montreal, we do a monthly,  Me: @aaractr informal 5@7  hap://www.mtlsec.com, @mtlsec  IRC  irc.freenode.org, #subgraph http://www.subgraph.com

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