Feb 172016
 

This is a silly script but you would be surprised how many times a day I have to do this and no matter how many times I type the command, I always get it wrong (or more than likely I forget to escape something).  Its also interesting to note that the scripts I find silly are usually the ones that are the most popular on this site….so here it is.

Basically, if you copy and paste this script into a file and run it, it will give you the exact date and time in the sed command to run to search all lines in a log file from the previous hour to now and save it to another file.

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Feb 262014
 

I generally do most everything from a shell. I also generally script things when I can. However, I wanted to see changes made to arachni web interface and it had been a while since I used it. I’m not sure if this is automated via the links included in kali linux or not, I just know that when I went to fire up arachni_web it failed and this is how I fixed it.
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Dec 122013
 

I have been using this script for a long time (maybe 13 years) with only very slight changes.  It was probably one of the first cool ideas I had for a way to track laptops issued to employees that might possibly be stolen.  Granted, today, we use full disk encryption and other cool things that almost makes this script obsolete….but in the event something does get stolen, we can always track it.

The script only requires a crontab entry and a way to send mail (I use ssmtp btw).

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Dec 042013
 

I often review various vulnerability scanners.  When I review them, I look at several different things:

  • were they able to find a vulnerability I previously missed?
  • are they accurate in their findings?
  • how quickly do they complete an audit compared to “insert some other vulnerability scanner here”?
  • sometimes I will also grab the tcpdumps of the audits for even further analysis
  • how accessible and easy are they to use by “skiddies”?
  • based on the tcpdumps + noise generated on the server logs, are the audit signatures of wapiti easy to detect?

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May 152012
 
#!/bin/bash
 
# By Ed Wiget
# This script sets up a proxy so that you can audit web servers anonymously over tor
# 20111113 - initial script (better method)
# enable next line for debugging
#set -x
 
echo "Please enter the ip address of the target host or a domain name"
read dom
 
# this checks to see if we set a domain name or ip address
# it sets the variable IP to the ip address of domain or ip entered
# if you are auditing more than .com, .net, .org, .edu addresses, you need to add them below
if [ "`echo ${dom} | egrep 'com|net|org|edu' | wc -l`" = "1" ]; then
		IP=`tor-resolve ${dom}`
	else
		IP=${dom}
fi
 
# for debugging to make sure we are setting IP correctly
#echo ${IP}
 
# here we set up a socat proxy listening on localhost port 8080
# it forwards any tcp requests to ${IP} port 80
# via the socks tor listening on localhost 9050
sudo socat TCP4-LISTEN:8080,fork SOCKS4:127.0.0.1:${IP}:80,socksport=9050 &
 
# the sleep is required or the check for listening fails below
sleep 2
 
if [ "`sudo netstat -ptane | grep 8080 | wc -l`" = "1" ]; then
	echo "proxy started successfully"
else
	echo "proxy not running"
	exit
fi
 
# here we are going to check port 80 for a web server which will likely tell us the
# operating system too via the results
sudo proxychains nmap -sT -PN -n -sV ${IP} -p80
 
# here we need to set up w3af_gui running as root in order to connect to our proxy
echo "when w3af opens, click on advanced target settings"
sleep 1
echo "set the target ip in w3af to http://127.0.0.1:8080"
sleep 1
echo "set the targetos and targetframework in w3af as returned by the nmap check above"
sleep 1
sudo /pentest/web/w3af/w3af_gui &

 

So now you can audit a web app using w3af.  If you wanted to use nessus or metasploit, just plug in the address as 127.0.0.1:8080

Jul 102011
 

So like most people who do pentesting, I am always strapped for time and always have way too many things on my plate.  So, what I have done over the years is try to automate the things I do on a regular basis.  This allows me to repeat the results consistently.  It also allows me to run a consistent pentest weekly, monthly, or however often I need to schedule them to be done.

I will go ahead and tell you now, these tests are extremely noisy.  They generate a lot of traffic, and I don’t try to slide under any IDS’s or anything else.  Why?  Because I am authorized to conduct these penetration tests.

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