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Google Docs XSS – no bounty today
A few days ago, during one of those nights with the baby crying at 2:00 am and the only thing you can do is to read emails, I realised that Gmail shows the content of compressed files when reading them in Google Docs. As often is the case at SensePost, the “think evil ™” came to me and I started to ponder the possibilities of injecting HTML inside the file listing. The idea is actually rather simple. Looking at the file format of a .zip file we see the following:
Black Hat Europe – Bootcamp Training
SensePost will be at Black Hat Europe 2013 to deliver the Bootcamp module of the Hacking by Numbers series. This method based introductory course emphasizes the structure, approach, and thought-processes involved in hacking (over tools and tricks). The course is popular with beginners, who gain their first view into the world of hacking, as well as experts, who appreciate the sound, structured approach.
A break down of what will be covered during this course:
Vulnerability Management Analyst Position
Have a keen interest on scanning over 12000 IP’s a week for vulnerabilities? Excited about the thought of assessing over 100 web applications for common vulnerabilities? If so, an exciting, as well as demanding, position has become available within the Managed Vulnerability Scanning (MVS) team at SensePost.
Job Title: Vulnerability Management Analyst
Salary Range: Industry standard, commensurate with experience
Location: Johannesburg/Pretoria, South Africa
We are looking for a talented person to join our MVS team to help manage the technology that makes up our Broadview suite and, more importantly, finding vulnerabilities, interpreting the results and manually verifying them. We are after talented people with a broad skill set to join our growing team of consultants. Our BroadView suite of products consists of our extensive vulnerability scanning engine, which looks at both the network-layer and the application layer, as well as our extensive DNS footprinting technologies.
IT Network Packet Wrangler
As we grow and operate on a number of continents, so does our dependence on a rock-solid IT infrastructure. We are expanding our repertoire to include a greater collection of Linux/Open Source/Windows and OS X products. With this, we are on the look-out for a rock star to wrangle control of our internal networks, external cloud infrastructure and help us us utilise technology in a way to make us even better.
Adolescence: 13 years of SensePost
Today was our 13th birthday. In Internet years, that’s a long time. Depending on your outlook, we’re either almost a pensioner or just started our troublesome teens. We’d like to think it’s somewhere in the middle. The Internet has changed lots from when SensePost was first started on the 14th February 2000. Our first year saw the infamous ILOVEYOU worm wreak havoc across the net, and we learned some, lessons on vulnerability disclosure, a year later we moved on to papers about “SQL insertion” and advanced trojans. And the research continues today.
Poking Around in Android Memory
Taking inspiration from Vlad’s post I’ve been playing around with alternate means of viewing traffic/data generated by Android apps.
The technique that has given me most joy is memory analysis. Each application on android is run in the Dalvik VM and is allocated it’s own heap space. Android being android, free and open, numerous ways of dumping the contents of the application heap exist. There’s even a method for it in the android.os.Debug library: android.os.Debug.dumpHprofData(String filename). You can also cause a heap dump by issuing the kill command:
Client Side Fingerprinting in Prep for SE
On a recent engagement, we were tasked with trying to gain access to the network via a phishing attack (specifically phishing only). In preparation for the attack, I wanted to see what software they were running, to see if Vlad and I could target them in a more intelligent fashion. As this technique worked well, I thought this was a neat trick worth sharing.
First off the approach was to perform some footprinting to see if I could find their likely Internet breakout. While I found the likely range (it had their mail server in it) I couldn’t find the exact IP they were being NAT’ed to. Not wanting to stop there, I tried out Vlad’s Skype IP disclosure trick, which worked like a charm. What’s cool about this approach is that it gives you both the internal and external IP of the user (so you can confirm they are connected to their internal network if you have another internal IP leak). You don’t even need to be “friends”, you can just search for people who list the company in their details, or do some more advanced OSINT to find Skype IDs of employees.
Dangers of Custom ASP.NET HttpHandlers
ASP.NET HttpHandlers are interesting components of a .NET web application when performing security assessments, mainly due to the fact they are the most exposed part of the application processing client requests in HttpContext level and at the same time, not yet part of the official ASP.NET framework.
As a result, data validation vulnerabilities in custom HttpHandlers can be exploited far easier than issues on the inner layer components. However, they are mostly overlooked during the web application tests for two reasons:
Snoopy Release
We blogged a little while back about the Snoopy demonstration given at 44Con London. A similar talk was given at ZaCon in South Africa. Whilst we’ve been promising a release for a while now, we wanted to make sure all the components were functioning as expected and easy to use. After an army of hundreds had tested it (ok, just a few), you may now obtain a copy of Snoopy from here. Below are some instructions on getting it running (check out the README file from the installer for additional info).
SensePost Hackathon 2012
Last month saw the inaugural SensePost hackathon happen in our new offices in Brooklyn, South Africa. It was the first time the entire company would be in the same room, let alone the same continent, together and away from the pressures of daily work constraints. The idea was simple: weeks before the date, we sent out emails to everyone in the company (not just the tech teams but everyone) to think about ideas, tools, approaches or new business lines that they felt would make us even better at what we did.