Welcome readers to Part 2 of Web Services Penetration Testing. In this part, we will take a quick look into the various test cases, tools and method for security testing of Web Services. Black box Web Services Penetration Testing pre-requisite: -> Web Service Description Language (WSDL) file Grey box Web Services Penetration Testing pre-requisite: -> […]
Tabnabbing – An art of phishing
This blog is about a technique used by attackers to perform phishing attack by using the Tabnabbing. Although, this was technique was invented long time ago, but there are very few articles on this. Hence, I thought to write something on this topic. What is tabnabbing?p Tabnabbing is a client side attack web based attack. […]
Web Services and API Penetration Testing Part #1
Hi Readers, today we will learn about another interesting part of web services and API penetration testing part, this revolves around Security assessments of web services. To start with let’s take a look at what web services are made of: A web service is software composed of standardized XML messaging system. The benefit of web […]
Intercepting thick clients sans domain: Thick Client Penetration Testing – Part 5
For carrying out penetration testing assessments, our main aim has been to resolve the actual domain to the loopback IP address, by adding an entry to the hosts file. Let us know consider a situation where the thick Client application does not send the request to a domain or a host name, then what happens? […]
Dark Web: Accessing the hidden content Part #2
Using I2P to access the dark web – Part #2 I2P Intro: According to Wikipedia, The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) is an anonymous network layer that allows for peer to peer communication via encrypting the user’s traffic and sending it through a volunteer-run network of roughly 55,000 computers distributed around the world. The software that implements this layer is called […]
Dark Web: Accessing the hidden content Part- 1
Curiosity towards hidden and unknown things is natural to people. For the general folks, Internet is existence of websites indexed via popular search engines like Google, however the Deep Dark web is beyond the traditional search engines which are hidden and inaccessible through standard web browsers. It is an interesting fact to know that […]
Fileless malware- the ninja technique to spread malwares using default os tools
What are fileless malwares? Fileless malware are not typical malwares that probe directly or indirectly to install software on a victim’s machine and then execute. Instead, tools that are built-in to Windows are hijacked and used to carry out attacks. Why is it more dangerous? Due to the usage of only default windows tools, no […]
Cryptocurrency Mining Scripts Harnessing your cpu memory via Browsers
Hidden MiningWebsites are increasingly using JavaScript-based cryptocurrency miners to monetize by levying the CPU power of their visitor’s PC to mine Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies. Scenario then vs now: Websites using crypto-miner services could mine cryptocurrencies with your browser memory when you visit their site. Feasibility: Once you close the browser window, they lost access […]
Gain Root without Password- macOS Sierra
A critical vulnerability has been discovered in macOS High Sierra allowing any user to get root access on a mac system without any passwords. In order to perform this, you just need to type “root” into the username field, leave the password blank, and hit the Enter a few times ( two or more) and […]
Exploiting Browsers using PasteJacking and XSSJacking Vulnerability
Hi Readers, in the field of penetration testing, we all know attacks such as Clickjacking, Cross Site Scripting etc. These are attacks from most OWASP Top 10 test cases. Today we will look into some advanced attack vectors which have been lately around sometime but not all are aware of. Pastejacking. The art of changing […]