Programming
Serial PitM
Sometimes you need to get in the way of a hardware device and its controller, and see what it has to say for itself. If you are lucky, the two parts are communicating using a serial port, and then it’s relatively simple to do. In this post, I will explain two scenarios where I had to do this, and the approach that I took in each. As a bonus, I’ll also show some hardware that I put together to make it easier.
Left To My Own Devices – Fast NTCracking in Rust
When I got a new MacBook with an M1 Pro chip, I was excited to see the performance benefits. The first thing I did was to fire up hashcat which gave an impressive benchmark speed for NT hashes (mode 1000) of around 9 GH/s, a solid doubling of the benchmark speed of my old Intel MacBook Pro. But, when it came to actually cracking things, the speed dropped off considerably. Instead of figuring out why, I decided to try my hand at writing my own NT hash cracker, because I’m kind of addicted to writing single use tooling in rust then taking time to perf optimise it.
USaBUSe Linux updates
(If you’re new to this project, read the intro first)
For the past few months, I’ve been working on porting the USaBUSe stack from the custom hardware (AVR+ESP8266) to the Linux USB gadget stack. I wanted to make the techniques more accessible to people unfamiliar with embedded development, and I also wanted to take advantage of the variety of possibilities inherent in having a fully featured Linux environment to work in. I presented this work at HackCon in Norway.
Channel 4 – Mobile Phone Experiment
This evening we were featured on Channel 4’s DataBaby segment (link to follow). Channel 4 bought several second hand mobile phones that had been “wiped” (or rather reset to factory default) from various shops. Our challenge was to recover enough data from these seemingly empty phones to identify the previous owners.
After a long night of mobile forensics analysis, we had recovered personal data from almost every phone we had been provided with. This information included:
RAT-a-tat-tat
Hey all,
So following on from my talk (slides, video) I am releasing the NMAP service probes and the Poison Ivy NSE script as well as the DarkComet config extractor.
Rat a-tat-tat from SensePost nmap-service-probes.pi poison-ivy.nse extract-DCconfig-from-binary.py An example of finding and extracting Camellia key from live Poison Ivy C2’s:
nmap -sV -Pn --versiondb=nmap-service-probes.pi --script=poison-ivy.nse <ip_address/range)
Finding Poison Ivy, DarkComet and/or Xtreme RAT C2’s:
nmap -sV -Pn --versiondb=nmap-service-probes.pi <ip_range>
Offence oriented defence
We recently gave a talk at the ITWeb Security Summit entitled “Offense Oriented Defence”. The talk was targeted at defenders and auditors, rather then hackers (the con is oriented that way), although it’s odd that I feel the need to apologise for that ;)
The talks primary point, was that by understanding how attackers attack, more innovative defences can be imagined. The corollary was that common defences, in the form of “best practise” introduce commonality that is more easily exploited, or at least degrade over time as attackers adapt. Finally, many of these “security basics” are honestly hard, and we can’t place the reliance on them we’d hoped. But our approach doesn’t seem to want to acknowledge the problem, and much like an AA meeting, it’s time we recognise the problem.
A software level analysis of TrustZone OS and Trustlets in Samsung Galaxy Phone
Introduction:
New types of mobile applications based on Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) and most notably ARM TrustZone micro-kernels are emerging which require new types of security assessment tools and techniques. In this blog post we review an example TrustZone application on a Galaxy S3 phone and demonstrate how to capture communication between the Android application and TrustZone OS using an instrumented version of the Mobicore Android library. We also present a security issue in the Mobicore kernel driver that could allow unauthorised communication between low privileged Android processes and Mobicore enabled kernel drivers such as an IPSEC driver.
Stay low, move fast, shoot first, die last, one shot, one kill, no luck, pure skill …
We’re excited to be presenting our Hacking By Numbers Combat course again at Black Hat USA this year. SensePost’s resident German haxor dude Georg-Christian Pranschke will be presenting this year’s course. Combat fits in right at the top of our course offerings. No messing about, this really is the course where your sole aim is to pwn as much of the infrastructure and applications as possible. It is for the security professional looking to hone their skill-set, or to think like those in Unit 61398. There are a few assumptions though:
Windows Domain Privilege Escalation : Implementing PSLoggedOn in Metasploit (+ a bonus history module)
There are multiple paths one could take to getting Domain Admin on a Microsoft Windows Active Directory Domain. One common method for achieving this is to start by finding a system where a privileged domain account, such as a domain admin, is logged into or has recently been logged into. Once access to this system has been gained, either stealing their security tokens (ala Incognito or pass-the-hash attacks) or querying Digest Authentication (with Mimikatz/WCE) to get their clear-text password. The problem is finding out where these user’s are logged in.
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:
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