I’ve been procrastinating finalizing some basic research and putting my thoughts into a blog post regarding Same Origin Policy (SOP), Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS), Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF), and Content Security Policy (CSP). I am hoping to spend some more time on it…
Web Application Lab – Vulnerable PHP Scripts
This is the second post in a series where I look to create a framework to build and test proof-of-concepts in hopes of gaining a deeper understanding of various web application fundamentals. In this post I’ll introduce a few vulnerable scripts you can use to research various…
Web Application Lab – Proof-of-Concept Infrastructure
I’ve been working with web applications quite a bit lately and have been finding myself wanting to work with proof-of-concepts in order to explore certain types of vulnerabilities and attacks. I decided to work with the Apache web-server and PHP (on CentOS) to help with my journey.…
Credential spraying with CrackMapExec (safely)
Not too long ago I worked up an SMB credential spraying script using rpcclient. I haven’t really been using this much as I tend to favor byt3bl33d3r’s CrackMapExec when attacking SMB. On a recent engagement, I accidentally locked out a good number of Windows domain accounts during…
Credential spraying SMB servers with rpcclient
I’ve been wanting an efficient way to credential spray SMB servers. I typically use byt3bl33d3r’s CrackMapExec when poking SMB servers but wanted a way to rotate single users over multiple passwords and then force the process to sleep for a while (for the sake of account lock-out).…
Cooking up shells with a compromised Chef server
I was able to compromise a Chef server on one of my recent engagements. Owning a Chef server means having the keys to the castle. I wasn’t quite sure how to go about using this tool. I’m familiar with Puppet as I’ve spent the majority of my…
Encrypting project directories with ecryptfs-utils
I worked up a way to store engagement/project data in an encrypted directory. I had originally wanted to dd a blob to the current file-system and then format & encrypt it. I found an easier way to go about this using the ecryptfs-utils suite. I worked up…