This post is a summary of the contents of my talk in Defcon 31 AppSec Village last August 2023, and part of what I will explain in Canada at the SecTor conference on the 24th of October 2023 at 4:00 PM. There are two (big) blocks in this post. Sorry for the length <(_ _)>: The first part is about the not so well-known CSP bypasses that I found during…
It’s too easy when hacking, to assume something is invulnerable and not interrogate it. This was the case for me when it came to Duo’s two-factor authentication solution. However, we were able to discover two variants of the same 2FA bypass. These rely on redirecting a victim’s push notifications to an attacker-controlled device, to authorise access to a victim account. Interactions with Duo had this fixed in record time, and…
While working on DoubleAgent as part of the Introduction To Red Teaming course we’re developing for RingZer0, I had a look at Anti-Malware Scan Interface (AMSI) bypasses. One of the objectives I had was to find a new way to evade AMSI. As with my DoubleAgent work, this did not lead to the identification of a novel finding, but instead revealed that old techniques can be revived with minimal work.…
“Exfiltration Over Alternate Protocol” techniques such as using the Domain Name System as a covert communication channel for data exfiltration is not a new concept. We’ve used the technique for many years at SensePost, including Haroon & Marco’s 2007 BH/DC talk on Squeeza. In the present age this is a well understood topic, at least amongst Infosec folks, with a large number of resources, available, online that aim to enlighten those…
Sometimes on an engagement, you’d like to construct a believable certificate chain, that you have the matching private keys for. An example might be that a mobile app is doing cert pinning, based on attributes of the signing certificate, such as the Canonical Name (CN), serial number, or Issuer, or that you are intercepting an embedded app that only supports a particular algorithm. Whatever the reason, it’s a fairly complicated…
06 April 2017
~8 min
By saif
Whilst on a Red Team assessment back in 2015, we were faced with a tough Data Leak Protection (DLP) and web content management gateway system called Forcepoint TRITON. One of the goals, besides gaining full access to the client, was to see if sensitive data could be exfiltrated from the internal network to attacker controlled servers. The first logical step was to analyse how this device functioned and identify any flaws. Forcepoint Triton, according…