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Re: [PEN-TEST] How to "break into" the Pen-Testing field
From: "Teicher, Mark" <mark.teicher () NETWORKICE COM>
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 20:39:08 -0700
Has anyone considered utilizing a Red Hat Linux 6.2 box running VMWare for Windows NT. ??? Instead of having a multi-boot disk or multiple disk packs. It appears that some of these tools are available for both platforms. One is absolutely correct, it really depends on the type of penetration test one is engaged to conduct. But what really is Industry Best Practices. I know some high end consulting services like to utilize a mixture of commercial and freely available network and host based scanners to give an overall analysis. Then parse through the results to formulate a network and host map. What tool would be used first and what would be the secondary tool to validate any false positives one may discover??? Is there any manual massaging of the data?? Would you turn over the raw data to the customer?? /mark At 06:17 PM 9/10/00 -0400, Frasnelli, Dan wrote:
> What would be the typical tool suite one would use on a Pen Test?? I assume you meant the usual network-based penetration test by that. If you are asked to mess with a client's pbx/vmb, physical security, employees, etc... there are other techniques or hardware involved. Most penetration tests are conducted in two phases: exploration and exploitation. I recommend you tailor a software 'tool suite' with those as guidelines. Depending on your style, organizing tools this way may or may not be efficient. Below are examples biased towards Unix; perhaps an NT person has suggestions for that platform. Exploration and Analysis - portscanners: nmap (www.insecure.org) - sniffers: tcpdump (www.tcpdump.org) ngrep (sourceforge.net/projects/ngrep) dsniff (www.monkey.org/~dugsong/dsniff) - vuln scanners: vlad (razor.bindview.com/tools/) whisker (sourceforge.net/projects/whisker) - Samba, nbtscan, l0phtcrack & other tools for windows networks - the inevitable custom code and scripts Exploitation - hunt (www.gncz.cz/kra/index.html) - misc tools (www.ussrback.com, www.packetfactory.net) - whatever is current from packetstorm/ussrlabs/bugtraq/etc. for the targets. This category is dynamic and typically contains unreleased exploits, in-house code, etc. Its also the attack phase which causes most 'script kiddies' grief, as it requires a lot of creative tweaking to avoid detection. A portable computer and disc with various tools compiled for your platform of choice is a good starting point for a network penetration kit. -dan
Current thread:
- [PEN-TEST] How to "break into" the Pen-Testing field Lashley, Bryan (Sep 08)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] How to "break into" the Pen-Testing field Drew Simonis (Sep 09)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] How to "break into" the Pen-Testing field El Nahual (Sep 09)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] How to "break into" the Pen-Testing field INOM (Sep 10)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: [PEN-TEST] How to "break into" the Pen-Testing field Bob Radvanovsky (Sep 09)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] How to "break into" the Pen-Testing field gatekeepr (Sep 09)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] How to "break into" the Pen-Testing field Dragos Ruiu (Sep 10)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] How to "break into" the Pen-Testing field Teicher, Mark (Sep 10)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] How to "break into" the Pen-Testing field Frasnelli, Dan (Sep 10)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] How to "break into" the Pen-Testing field Teicher, Mark (Sep 11)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] How to "break into" the Pen-Testing field Frasnelli, Dan (Sep 11)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] How to "break into" the Pen-Testing field Teicher, Mark (Sep 12)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] How to "break into" the Pen-Testing field Bennett Todd (Sep 12)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] How to "break into" the Pen-Testing field Teicher, Mark (Sep 12)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] How to "break into" the Pen-Testing field Frasnelli, Dan (Sep 12)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] How to "break into" the Pen-Testing field gatekeepr (Sep 09)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] How to "break into" the Pen-Testing field Carric Dooley (Sep 12)
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- Re: [PEN-TEST] Network Mapping (was Re: [PEN-TEST] How to "break into" the Pen-Testing field) Teicher, Mark (Sep 12)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Network Mapping (was Re: [PEN-TEST] How to "break into" the Pen-Testing field) Adrian Lazar (Sep 12)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Network Mapping (was Re: [PEN-TEST] How to "break into" the Pen-Testing field) Carric Dooley (Sep 13)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Network Mapping (was Re: [PEN-TEST] How to "break into" the Pen-Testing field) Teicher, Mark (Sep 13)