A while back I picked up an Acer Chromebook 14 as an inexpensive laptop I could use around the house or lug along on trips without being overly paranoid I’d break it, lose it, or have it stolen. I did initially look into installing Linux on it after having it a few months but firmware support was very sketchy with newer Braswell Chromebooks at the time so I put it on the back burner for a while. I did toy around with using Crouton but performance was frustratingly bad and didn’t seem worth the bother to me. Continue reading “Installing Gallium OS + Pen-Testing tools on Stock Chromebook”
FristiLeaks: 1.3 VulnHub Writeup
Source: https://www.vulnhub.com/entry/fristileaks-13,133/
After the grueling beast that was The Necromancer I decided I needed to take a break with something hopefully a little bit easier and not as lengthy. This VM has been described as being closer to the beginner side so let’s spin it up and find out.
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Using pfSense’s ACME Package to Generate Let’s Encrypt Certs (ver 2.3.4-RELEASE-p1)
Important note before proceeding: Let’s Encrypt certificates are non-self-signed certificates and completely free, but do require that you own and be able to verify a domain name.
Similar to other pfSense packages start the installation by simply going to:
- System: Package Manager: Available Packages
From there locate the “ACME” package and select install. Once installed then go to:
- Services: ACME Certificates
5 Year Plan & Information Security Career Goals
This recent talk by John Strand got me thinking a lot about how I can more strategically put together a plan toward my own career goals. I’m a SOC analyst now but would ultimately like to gain a good base of experience and skills required to either move on to more advanced blue team roles or become a pen-tester. Even though some of the advice given in the talk is more focused on those that are completely new to security or are recent graduates the advice is still very pertinent to those of us already in the field.
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Better Directory and File Brute-forcing with BurpSmartBuster
Github: https://github.com/pathetiq/BurpSmartBuster/
DerbyCon Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFxUfoVgMrw
After watching the DerbyCon presentation by Patrick Mathieu I’ve been experimenting with replacing or at least supplementing Dirbuster with this new tool. It offers a lot of potential benefits: Continue reading “Better Directory and File Brute-forcing with BurpSmartBuster”
Obfuscating PowerShell Commands using Invoke-Obfuscation
Source: https://github.com/danielbohannon/Invoke-Obfuscation
Thanks to one of Dave Kennedy’s talks for making me aware of this tool for obfuscating PowerShell code. As PowerShell is used more and more in attacks the higher the likelihood there is for defenders to attempt to detect malicious commands or look for specific strings. To evade these detection techniques we can try to encode our commands to make them much harder to detect.
I’ll use the previous Bash Bunny Payload as an example with this tool.
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Bash Bunny – Get Cleartext WiFi Creds From Windows Using WiPassDump
This will be a quick demo on how easy it is to capture stored WiFi credentials on Windows using the Bash Bunny and WiPassDump payload.
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The Necromancer: 1 – VulnHub Writeup
Source: https://www.vulnhub.com/entry/the-necromancer-1,154/
Starting off with a quick netdiscover to figure out what IP we’re dealing with:
Mr. Robot:1 – Vulnhub Writeup
Source: https://www.vulnhub.com/entry/mr-robot-1,151/
After spinning up the VM I’m met with this logon prompt:
I then run “netdiscover -r 192.168.111.0/24” to find the IP assigned by the host adapter via DHCP:
Bash Bunny!
While at Defcon last week I picked up a Bash Bunny from the Hak5 booth. I managed to run into both Darren + Shannon also this year and it was cool finally meeting them both in person!
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