Tactical Information Gathering

Tactical Information Gathering
Christian Martorella Source Conference Barcelona 2009
Tactical Information Gathering Christian Martorella Source Conference Barcelona 2009
Who am i ? Christian Martorella Security Services S21sec CISSP, CISA, CISM, OPST, OPSA, C|EH OWASP WebSlayer Project Leader Edge-Security.com
Information Gathering “Is the collection of information before the attack. The idea is to collect as much information as possible about the target which may be valuable later.”
Tactical “Designed or implemented to gain a temporary limited advantage” Wikipedia
I.G Why use it? It’s what the real attackers are doing Attackers doesn’t have a restricted scope Knowing what information about you or your company is available online Spear Phishing: 15.000 infected users, as results of 66 campaings.
I.G what for? Infrastructure: Information for discovering new targets, to get a description of the hosts (NS,MX, AS,etc), shared resources, applications, software, etc. People and organizations : For performing brute force attacks on available services, Spear phishing, social engineering, investigations, background checks, information leaks
Typical Pentesting Methodology Post- Cover Write I.G Scan Enumerate Exploit Exploit Tracks report
What everyone focus on: Enumera Post- Cover Write I.G Scan Exploit te Exploit Tracks report
Real world Methodology I.G Discover what makes the company money Do whatever it Steal it takes... Discover what is valuable to the attacker
Types of I.G
Types of I.G Passive Active Semi Passive
Where / how can we obtain this kind of info?
Obtaining info - Old School way DNS Zone Transfer (active) DNS Reverse Lookup Search engines (active) PGP Key Servers DNS BruteForce (active++) Whois Mail headers (active) smtp Bruteforcing (active++)
Obtaining info - Old School way Active Passive DNS Zone Transfer (active) DNS Reverse Lookup Search engines (active) PGP Key Servers DNS BruteForce (active++) Whois Mail headers (active) smtp Bruteforcing (active++)
New sources for I.G
Obtaining - New sources Web 2.0 - Social Networks and Search engines (passive) Metadata (passive) Private data (passive paid) Intelius, Lexis Nexis
Obtaining people info - New sources Professional and Business Social networks
Obtaining people info - New sources
Obtaining people info - New sources Current Job Pasts Jobs Education Job description Etc...
Obtaining employees names from a company
Obtaining employees names from a company
Linkedin I.G example
Linkedin I.G example I L FA
Obtaining people info - New sources
Obtaining Emails from a company
Obtaining Emails from a company
Google Finance & Reuters
People information:
People search
People search
People search Name Username Email Phone Business
Nick name / username verification
Private data - pay per view
Microblogs Small posts up to 140 characters
Microblogs Small posts up to 140 characters
Bookmarks
Bookmarks
Bookmarks
Bookmarks A IL F
Reverse Image search Pic from “Novartis” search on TwwepSearch
Reverse Image search Pic from “Novartis” search on TwwepSearch
WikiScanner When you edit the wikipedia: You can edit leaving your username You can edit anonymous using your IP address
WikiScanner Company IP ranges Anonymous Wikipedia edits, from interesting organizations Provide an ip for a wikipedia username http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/
WikiScanner - IP ranges
WikiScanner - Wikipedia edits
Poor Man Check User Provide an ip for a wikipedia username
New sources - Metadata Metadata: is data about data.
New sources - Metadata Metadata: is data about data. Is used to facilitate the understanding, use and management of data.
Obtaining more data - Metadata Provides basic information such as the author of a work, the date of creation, links to any related works, etc.
Metadata - Dublin Core (schema) Content & about the Intellectual Property Electronic or Physical Resource manifestation Title Author or Creator Date Subject Publisher Type Description Contributor Format Language Rights Identifier Relation Coverage
Metadata example
Metadata example
Metadata - Images EXIF Exchangeable Image File Format • GPS coordinates • Time • Camera type • Serial number • Sometimes unaltered original photo can be found in thumbnail Online exif viewer.
Metadata - Images EXIF Exchangeable Image File Format • GPS coordinates • Time • Camera type • Serial number • Sometimes unaltered original photo can be found in thumbnail Online exif viewer.
Metadata - example
Metadata - example logo-Kubuntu.png logo-Ubuntu.png software - www.inkscape.org software - Adobe ImageReady size - 1501x379 size - 1501x391 mimetype - image/png mimetype - image/png
Metadata - example logo-Kubuntu.png logo-Ubuntu.png software - www.inkscape.org software - Adobe ImageReady size - 1501x379 size - 1501x391 mimetype - image/png mimetype - image/png :/
Metadata - EXIF- Harry Pwner Deathly EXIF?
Cat Schwartz - Tech TV
Cat Schwartz - Tech TV I L FA
Washington Post Botmaster location exposed by the Washington Post
Washington Post Botmaster location exposed by the Washington Post SLUG: mag/hacker DATE: 12/19/2005 PHOTOGRAPHER: Sarah L. Voisin/TWP id#: LOCATION: Roland, OK CAPTION: PICTURED: Canon Canon EOS 20D Adobe Photoshop CS2 Macintosh 2006:02:16 15:44:49 Sarah L. Voisin
Washington Post Botmaster location exposed by the Washington Post SLUG: mag/hacker DATE: 12/19/2005 PHOTOGRAPHER: Sarah L. Voisin/TWP id#: LOCATION: Roland, OK CAPTION: PICTURED: Canon Canon EOS 20D Adobe Photoshop CS2 Macintosh 2006:02:16 15:44:49 Sarah L. Voisin There are only 1.500 males in Roland Oklahoma
Metadata Ok, I understand metadata... so what?
Metagoofil Metagoofil is an information gathering tool designed for extracting metadata of public documents (pdf,doc,xls,ppt,etc) availables in the target/victim websites.
Metagoofil
Metagoofil Workers User names Server names names Software Paths versions + Date Mac Address
Metagoofil Workers User names Server names names Computer Software Paths names versions + Date Mac Address
Metagoofil
Metagoofil site:nasa.gov filetype:ppt
Metagoofil site:nasa.gov filetype:ppt
Metagoofil Downloaded files
Metagoofil Downloaded files ppt 1 pptx 2 parsers / Results.html doc 3 filtering Libextractor docx 3 Hachoir Regexp pdf n Own libs
Metagoofil - results
Metadata - The Revisionist Tool developed by Michal Zalewski, this tool will extract comments and “Track changes” from Word documents. http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/4/9/349c2166-4d53-43f6-b1fd-970090e23216/PARTNER/MSFreeShop.doc
Metagoofil & Linkedin results Now we have a lot of information, what can i do? • User profiling
Using results
Using results User profiling • User list creation John Doe john.doe jdoe j.doe johndoe johnd john.d jd doe john
Using results User profiling • User list creation John Doe john.doe jdoe j.doe johndoe johnd john.d jd doe john
Using results User profiling • User list creation John Doe john.doe jdoe j.doe johndoe johnd ATTACK! john.d jd doe john
Using results
Using results Password profiling Dictionary creation: words from the different user sites magic serra angel necropotence Shivan dragon elf brainstorm ... ...
Using results Password profiling Dictionary creation: words from the different user sites magic serra angel necropotence Shivan dragon elf brainstorm ... ...
Using results Password profiling Dictionary creation: words from the different user sites magic serra angel necropotence Shivan dragon Brute force elf ATTACK brainstorm ... ...
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Other examples
Phone in sick and treat himself to a day in bed. Kyle Doyle's Facebook profile makes it quite obvious he was not off work for a 'valid medical reason'
Phone in sick and treat himself to a day in bed. I L FA Kyle Doyle's Facebook profile makes it quite obvious he was not off work for a 'valid medical reason'
Was shown the door after posting that her job was 'boring' on her Facebook page
I L FA Was shown the door after posting that her job was 'boring' on her Facebook page
More than meet the eyes
Daily life I.G Looking for a Housekeeper on Craiglist, 3 interesting resumes came up:
Daily life I.G Looking for a Housekeeper on Craiglist, 3 interesting resumes came up: Myspace page, applicant drinking beer from a funnel
Daily life I.G Looking for a Housekeeper on Craiglist, 3 interesting resumes came up: Myspace page, applicant drinking beer from a funnel Local police, applicant arrested 2 years before for shoplifting
Daily life I.G Looking for a Housekeeper on Craiglist, 3 interesting resumes came up: Myspace page, applicant drinking beer from a funnel Local police, applicant arrested 2 years before for shoplifting Personal blog, saying that she is applying for menial jobs, and will quit as soon she sells some paintings
Final thoughts Be careful what you post/send, all stay online Think twice what you post Check the privacy configuration of your tools/sites Too much information, difficult to classify This is growing, more information is being indexed, more search engines
References www.edge-security.com blog.s21sec.com www.s21sec.com carnal0wnage.blogspot.com www.gnunet.org/libextractor lcamtuf.coredump.cx/strikeout/ www.paterva.com http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/02/personal-branding-in-the-age- of-google.html laramies.blogspot.com http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Washington-Post-Caught-in-Metadata-Gaffe/ Chris Gates Carnal0wnage Brucon 2009 Presentation http://www.neuroproductions.be/twitter_friends_network_browser/
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