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RE: Tool to find hidden web proxy server


From: Christopher Adickes <christopher_adickes () SHI com>
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 08:37:44 -0400


How many machines do you have on your network?  Would it be manageable to do
a port scan of your hosts and look for suspicious or non-standard ports.
This would only work on a small number of machines because sifting through
the port scan data might be a pain.  

Good luck tracking this sneaky person down!

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From: Gary E. Miller [mailto:gem () rellim com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 4:40 PM
To: Burnett, Robert
Cc: Pen
Subject: RE: Tool to find hidden web proxy server

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Yo Robert!

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Burnett, Robert wrote:

If you span a port on your internal switch (assuming you have an interna
l switch) and sniff all traffic traveling through it, you could ngrep fo
r HTTP CONNECT requests.  This would detect connections to the proxy ser
vers.

Unless:

1. The proxy traffic is using trivial encryption, like https, ssh,
openvpn, socks/ssl, etc.  Then all you will sniff is gibberish.

2. The proxy traffic is going around your firewall using POTS, Cell
Phone, CPDP, Wi-Fi, etc.

RGDS
GARY
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