Metasploit is a free and open-source penetration testing framework that is used for security testing and research. It contains exploits, payloads, and tools that allow users to identify vulnerabilities and security weaknesses. Metasploit has a large database of exploits and payloads that can be used to penetrate target systems with vulnerabilities. It integrates with other security tools and makes exploitation and post-exploitation tasks simple to perform. Metasploit is pre-installed in the popular Kali Linux distribution and can also be downloaded and used separately on other operating systems.
The Attached slide was presented at Null Open Security/OWAP/G4H combined community event, the document shared here is a representation of Independent study on usage of Metasploit on purpose built vulnerable machine Metasploitable3. With New attack vectors such as Elastic Search API and Jenkins servers -21/01/2017
Contains
1. Introduction to Metasploit (why metasploit?)
2. Demo Setup and talked on how to- Using Metasploitable3
3. Networking with VirtualBox for personal lab
4. Auxiliary Modules (Scanners and Servers ) - Demo of snmp_enum
5. Exploit Module (searching exploits)
6. Payload types
7. Exploit Demo 1 - /exploit/multi/elasticsearch/script_mvel_rce
8. Exploit Demo 2 -
/exploit/multi/http/jenkins_script_console
Pentesting? What is Pentesting? Why Pentesting?
Millions of dollars have been invested in security programs to protect critical infrastructure to prevent data breaches
This is my presentation in JWC 4th Event Computer and Network Security FOrum at Binus International University. I talk about how to setup your own malware lab for malware analysis purpose.
Deploying a Shadow Threat Intel Capability at CaralinaCon on March 6, 2016grecsl
In the presentation that threat intel vendors do not want you to see, open source and internal data meets home grown resources to produce actionable threat intelligence that your organization can leverage to stop the bad guys. This presentation discusses and shows examples of using what your already have to bootstrap this capability using existing data management platforms with open and flexible schemas to ease identification of advanced threats. Specific topics covered include the advantages of using open and flexible platforms that can be molded into a data repository, a case tracking system, an indicator database, and more. By analyzing this data organizations can discovery trends across attacks that help them understand their adversaries. An example nosql schema will be release to help attendees create their own implementations.
The Attached slide was presented at Null Open Security/OWAP/G4H combined community event, the document shared here is a representation of Independent study on usage of Metasploit on purpose built vulnerable machine Metasploitable3. With New attack vectors such as Elastic Search API and Jenkins servers -21/01/2017
Contains
1. Introduction to Metasploit (why metasploit?)
2. Demo Setup and talked on how to- Using Metasploitable3
3. Networking with VirtualBox for personal lab
4. Auxiliary Modules (Scanners and Servers ) - Demo of snmp_enum
5. Exploit Module (searching exploits)
6. Payload types
7. Exploit Demo 1 - /exploit/multi/elasticsearch/script_mvel_rce
8. Exploit Demo 2 -
/exploit/multi/http/jenkins_script_console
Pentesting? What is Pentesting? Why Pentesting?
Millions of dollars have been invested in security programs to protect critical infrastructure to prevent data breaches
This is my presentation in JWC 4th Event Computer and Network Security FOrum at Binus International University. I talk about how to setup your own malware lab for malware analysis purpose.
Deploying a Shadow Threat Intel Capability at CaralinaCon on March 6, 2016grecsl
In the presentation that threat intel vendors do not want you to see, open source and internal data meets home grown resources to produce actionable threat intelligence that your organization can leverage to stop the bad guys. This presentation discusses and shows examples of using what your already have to bootstrap this capability using existing data management platforms with open and flexible schemas to ease identification of advanced threats. Specific topics covered include the advantages of using open and flexible platforms that can be molded into a data repository, a case tracking system, an indicator database, and more. By analyzing this data organizations can discovery trends across attacks that help them understand their adversaries. An example nosql schema will be release to help attendees create their own implementations.
This slideshow outlines 10 reasons why hackers use PowerShell to turn an operating system against itself and compromise entire networks without needing to install a single piece of software.
What you need to know about ExPetr ransomwareKaspersky
On Thursday, 29 June, Kaspersky Lab teamed up with Comae Technologies to present an emergency webinar for businesses to help them understand and defend against the Petya/ExPetr ransomware. The malware has affected companies in a range of industry sectors across the world, with Ukraine, Russia and number of Western European countries most affected.
Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, senior security researcher in Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team, will be joined by Matt Suiche from Comae Technologies to present the very latest information on the ransomware’s attack vectors, the infection process and how it spreads through company networks. They will provide mitigation guidance and explain the actions organizations need to take to secure their computers and networks against this threat.
More technical details regarding this threat: https://kas.pr/cf6w
Advice on how to protect your files: https://kas.pr/s8dp
https://kas.pr/2nvh
https://kas.pr/yg72
And how to you can protect yourself with our free tool: https://go.kaspersky.com/Anti-ransomware-tool_soc.html?utm_source=smm_yt&utm_medium=ww_yt_o_0516
A short presentation on the Latest dumb of nsa tools by Shadowbroker hacker group. How to attack how to prevent the attack. Also about the new ransomware wanna cry 2.0
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Every time you look around some company or government organization is spouting out some huge number of “cyber-attacks” to their network every day. By no means is it easy, but could it be that there is a little exaggeration of the actuality of the encounters? There is surely a misconception in reporting and the understanding of the attack itself and how organizations account for them. There are “attacks” like port scanning and brute force attempting all across the internet and all hours of the day. Spreading awareness about them will inform the public on just how “intense” these attacks are. To demonstrate this, I bought a nice attractive domain and coupled it with a honey-pot and let the fun begin.
The Lazy Attacker: Defending Against Broad-based Cyber AttacksAlienVault
Advanced Persistent Attacks (APTs) get most of the attention from the cyber security community because, as defenders, we want to be vigilant against the most insidious techniques. However, this unilateral mindset ignores a much less interesting reality.
There has been a Ransomware explosion the last 6 years and there have been very little done to stop infections aside from deprecated signature scans and classic malware scanner. Weston will go over a couple proof of concepts that work on even the most current versions of the malware stop from fully infecting the machines that would otherwise be infected with malware that demands 1000s of dollars in some instances. Weston will go over several methods of making your system immune to attacks from ransomware many of them were discovered from actually reverse engineering the malware early this year. Weston will also go over several open source tools to test your environments impact from malware such as Cryptowall and several tools both software and hardware that can protect your systems from malware infecting even methods of abusing the payment gateway system to allow you to get more than one file unlocked for free and Weston will also go into the research about breaking the encryption based on the outputted encrypted files.
Basic knowledge on Honeypot - Principles, Infrastructure and Logs monitoring. Honeypot is one more layers of depends and gathers information to analysis the attacker end.
This slideshow outlines 10 reasons why hackers use PowerShell to turn an operating system against itself and compromise entire networks without needing to install a single piece of software.
What you need to know about ExPetr ransomwareKaspersky
On Thursday, 29 June, Kaspersky Lab teamed up with Comae Technologies to present an emergency webinar for businesses to help them understand and defend against the Petya/ExPetr ransomware. The malware has affected companies in a range of industry sectors across the world, with Ukraine, Russia and number of Western European countries most affected.
Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, senior security researcher in Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team, will be joined by Matt Suiche from Comae Technologies to present the very latest information on the ransomware’s attack vectors, the infection process and how it spreads through company networks. They will provide mitigation guidance and explain the actions organizations need to take to secure their computers and networks against this threat.
More technical details regarding this threat: https://kas.pr/cf6w
Advice on how to protect your files: https://kas.pr/s8dp
https://kas.pr/2nvh
https://kas.pr/yg72
And how to you can protect yourself with our free tool: https://go.kaspersky.com/Anti-ransomware-tool_soc.html?utm_source=smm_yt&utm_medium=ww_yt_o_0516
A short presentation on the Latest dumb of nsa tools by Shadowbroker hacker group. How to attack how to prevent the attack. Also about the new ransomware wanna cry 2.0
Defending Against 1,000,000 Cyber Attacks by Michael BanksEC-Council
Every time you look around some company or government organization is spouting out some huge number of “cyber-attacks” to their network every day. By no means is it easy, but could it be that there is a little exaggeration of the actuality of the encounters? There is surely a misconception in reporting and the understanding of the attack itself and how organizations account for them. There are “attacks” like port scanning and brute force attempting all across the internet and all hours of the day. Spreading awareness about them will inform the public on just how “intense” these attacks are. To demonstrate this, I bought a nice attractive domain and coupled it with a honey-pot and let the fun begin.
The Lazy Attacker: Defending Against Broad-based Cyber AttacksAlienVault
Advanced Persistent Attacks (APTs) get most of the attention from the cyber security community because, as defenders, we want to be vigilant against the most insidious techniques. However, this unilateral mindset ignores a much less interesting reality.
There has been a Ransomware explosion the last 6 years and there have been very little done to stop infections aside from deprecated signature scans and classic malware scanner. Weston will go over a couple proof of concepts that work on even the most current versions of the malware stop from fully infecting the machines that would otherwise be infected with malware that demands 1000s of dollars in some instances. Weston will go over several methods of making your system immune to attacks from ransomware many of them were discovered from actually reverse engineering the malware early this year. Weston will also go over several open source tools to test your environments impact from malware such as Cryptowall and several tools both software and hardware that can protect your systems from malware infecting even methods of abusing the payment gateway system to allow you to get more than one file unlocked for free and Weston will also go into the research about breaking the encryption based on the outputted encrypted files.
Basic knowledge on Honeypot - Principles, Infrastructure and Logs monitoring. Honeypot is one more layers of depends and gathers information to analysis the attacker end.
Metasploit (Module-1) - Getting Started With MetasploitAnurag Srivastava
Vulnerability and exploitation framework designed to ease the burden on security professionals when it comes to performing security assessments.
One of the single most useful auditing tools freely available to security professionals today
Contains an extensive library of "modules.“
Each module has a function, and they are divided up into "exploits", "auxiliary", "post" (post exploitation), "payloads", "encoders", and "nops.
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Google Hacking Lab
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This is an introduction to using search engines for penetration testing. "Google Hacking" is a valuable skill for penetration testers. Google's automated search algorithms constantly visit every IP in the world and collect information about the services that IP provides and indexes the content the IP makes available. Google hacking could be called an art. The information gathered is only limited to your ingenuity when crafting your queries. Keep in mind, the principles behind Google hacking apply to all search engines.
In this lab you will enumerate sub-domains, identify new machines, scour web servers for files that reside on directories but have been forgotten, learn about the underlying architecture of web servers, locate logon portals, and use targeted queries to locate specific file types. When clicking on links used the cached version so you visit Google's cache and not the website itself.
1. Open a browser and navigate to: google.com
2. We're going to search exclusively for Wilmu domains.
2a. Type: site:wilmu.edu
3. We received too many www.wilmu.edu returns for this search to be of use. Let's subtract some information from our query.
3a. Type: site:wilmu.edu -site:www.wilmu.edu -site:libguides.wilmu.edu
3b. What new domains did you identify?
Answer:
4. Now let's see what systems provide directory listings. Directory listings are important because there is the potential you will be able to see the entire website's file structure. Also, many webmasters forget to remove content they no longer make visible with hyperlinks. This content is valuable for various information gathering and exploitation reasons because it could be old pictures, databases, password files, etc. (Be sure to click on the cached links and not the actual links.)
4a. Type: site:umass.edu intitle:index.of
5. Another search we might do is for error or warning messages that give us an indication of the underlying infrastructure and application. Depending on the error or warning we will be able to determine if the web server is running Apache, IIS, SharePoint, WordPress, etc. To do this we would use the "or" operator. A query with the or operator for warnings or errors would look something like this: intitle:"apache status" "apache server status for" | "welcome to windows small business server 2003"
6. Let's look for applications and databases we may login to. Many organizations use Federated rights, meaning once you're logged in you may login to other systems. This is called "single sign-on" or SSO.
6a. Type: site:wilmu.edu logon | login
6b. What Portals did you find?
Answer:
7. We found some interesting portals but those are for students. Where else might a penetration tester look?
7a. Type: site:wilmu.edu faculty | staff | admin | administrator + login | logon
7b. What results did you find?
Answer:
8. We've been looking for interesting information about sub-domains, posted on websites, log ...
Metasploit framework can also be called as ‘Swiss Army knife ’ of penetration testers as it provides multiple exploit, customization, easy to redevelop according to the requirements of the system . To secure our system and prevent it from any type of threats , we should perform the penetration testing.
Introduction to metasploit framework
01.History of metasploit
02.Metasploit Design and architecture
03.Metasploit Editions
04.Metasploit Interface
05.Basic commands and foot-printing modules
System hacking is the way hackers get access to individual computers on a network. ... This course explains the main methods of system hacking—password cracking, privilege escalation, spyware installation, and keylogging—and the countermeasures IT security professionals can take to fight these attacks.
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4. What is Metasploit? 1
• Metasploit is a penetration testing framework that makes hacking
simple. It's an essential tool for many attackers and defenders. Point
Metasploit at your target, pick an exploit, what payload to drop, and hit
Enter.
• Metasploit is a hacking framework written in ruby. It is designed to help
make writing and executing exploits as simple as possible.
• Capabilities include smart exploitation, password auditing, web
application scanning, and social engineering.
5. History of Metasploit 2
HD Moore began working on Metasploit in the early ought's, and
released 1.0, written in Perl, in 2003. The project has grown dramatically
since then, from the original 11 exploits the project came with to more
than 1,500 now, plus around 500 payloads, with a switch to Ruby under
the hood along the way.
Security outfit Rapid7 acquired both Metasploit and Moore in 2009.
(Moore left the project in 2016.) Metasploit has since become the de
facto framework for exploit development, despite competition from
Canvas and Core Impact. Today it is common for zero day reports to
include a Metasploit module as proof of concept.
6. Overview of Metasploit 3
1. Open source tool Used for:
• Penetration testing
• IDS Signature Development
• Exploit Research
2. Consists of:
• Web server
• Console
• Signatures
3. Runs on any operating system
Source code for Linux/Unix/ MacOS X Portable to Windows via CYGWIN
4. Allows anyone to exploit & usually “root”
certain machines with only an IP address
and a basic background of the system
5. Requires no knowledge of the software
bug, or exploit machine code
7. How to use Metasploit? 4
• During the information gathering phase of a pen-test, Metasploit integrates
seamlessly with Nmap, SNMP scanning and Windows patch enumeration,
among others. There's even a bridge to Nessus, Tenable's vulnerability scanner.
Pretty much every reconnaissance tool you can think of integrates with
Metasploit, making it possible to find the chink in the armor you're looking for.
• Once you've identified a weakness, hunt through Metasploit large and
extensible database for the exploit that will crack open that chink and get you
in.
• Once on a target machine, Metasploit quiver contains a full suite of post-
exploitation tools, including privilege escalation, pass the hash, packet sniffing,
screen capture, key-loggers, and pivoting tools.
8. How to learn Metasploit? 5
• Many free and cheap resources are available to learn Metasploit. The best
place to start for many is probably downloading and installing Kali Linux,
along with a vulnerable virtual machine (VM) for target practice.
• Offensive Security, the folks who maintain Kali and run the OSCP
certification, also offer Metasploit Unleashed, a free training course that
asks only for a donation to hungry children in Africa in return.
• The Metasploit project offers detailed documentation and its YouTube
channel is another good resource for the beginning penetration tester.
9. Where to get Metasploit? 6
• Metasploit ships as part of Kali Linux, but you can also download it separately at
the Metasploit website. Metasploit runs on *nix and Windows systems. The
Metasploit Framework source code is available on GitHub.
• Like Coca-Cola, Metasploit comes in different flavors. In addition to the free/
libre Metasploit Framework, Rapid7 also produces the Metasploit Community
Edition, a free web-based user interface for Metasploit, and Metasploit Pro, the
big daddy with the non-free add-ons for pen-testers who prefer a GUI or MS
Office-like wizards to perform baseline audits, and want to phish their clients as
part of an engagement. Rapid7 offers a feature comparison on its website.
10. What is penetration testing? 7
• Penetration testing, often called “pentesting”, “pen testing”, or “security
testing”, is the practice of attacking your own or your clients’ IT systems in the
same way a hacker would to identify security holes.
• The person carrying out a penetration test is called a penetration tester or
pentester.
• Penetration testing requires that you get permission from the person who
owns the system. Otherwise, you would be hacking the system, which is
illegal.
11. What is penetration testing? 7
You can become a penetration tester at home by testing your own server
and later make a career out of it.
To better understand penetration testing, you first need to understand the
basic security concepts of:
• Vulnerabilities
• Exploits
• Payloads
12. What is a vulnerability? 8
A vulnerability is a security hole in a piece of software, hardware or
operating system that provides a potential angle to attack the system. A
vulnerability can be as simple as weak passwords or as complex as buffer
overflows or SQL injection vulnerabilities.
Vulnerability scanning will allow you to quickly scan a target IP range
looking for known vulnerabilities, giving a penetration tester a quick idea of
what attacks might be worth conducting.
13. What is an exploit? 9
To take advantage of a vulnerability, you often need an exploit, a small and
highly specialized computer program whose only reason of being is to take
advantage of a specific vulnerability and to provide access to a computer
system.
Exploits often deliver a payload to the target system to grant the attacker
access to the system.
The Metasploit Project host the world’s largest public database of quality-
assured exploits.
Even the name Metasploit comes from the term “exploit”.
14. What is Payload? 10
A payload can be considered to be somewhat similar to a virus. A payload
is a set of malicious codes that carry crucial information that can be used
to hack any device beyond limits that you can't imagine.
Generally, a payload refers to a set of codes which a hacker designs
according to his/her requirements.
15. Summary 11
Metasploit is very easy to use, and very powerful
• Web interface allows the scans to be run from any system, on any
operating system.
• Evidence may or may not be left behind on the system.
• IDS/IPS will sense these exploits.
• Only contains old & well known exploits.