Showing posts with label BT5R3. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BT5R3. Show all posts

Saturday, September 1, 2012

The curious case of the failing web vector attack

I recently decided to try experiment with the social engineering toolkit on my penetration testing network. The attack I'm trying to execute is a java applet attack underneath the website attack vectors option. I am pretty sure that I have covered the basics and obvious by having java installed and making the appropriate changes to the set config file. I have even tried removing and reinstalling SET. As I have stated earlier in my blog all of the machines in my test network including BT5 are ran in virtual box. What follows is a brief overview of the options I selected in attempting the attack and a few screen shots to help convey where I think the error is at:

Attacker Machine: BT5R3
SET V3.7.1

 Victim Machine:
Windows XP sp2:
Browser: Firefox v14.0.1

I use the following options in SET to try to execute my attack:
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2
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2
(Fill all the fields with bob or w/e)
URL to clone: www.hulu.com
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443
start sendmail: no
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fill in victim email
fill in attacker email
flag message: no
Craft Email subject
opt for html message
craft email body
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  Press <return> to continue
[-] ***
[-] * WARNING: Database support has been disabled
[-] ***

SET then launcher msfconsole and starts a handler waiting for the connection from the victim machine.

Other things I have tried: Using the templates instead of cloning a site, setting the listener to port 80 instead of 443, not using the email attack option along side this attack. Can't think of anything else I have tried at the moment in conjunction with the attack. Here are a few screen shots of my most recent attempt.







Saturday, August 25, 2012

BT5R3 Released!

BT5R3 has been released along with some cool new tools. I upgraded yesterday, but haven't been able to test any of the new tools out yet. That is mostly because I was trying to figure out a way to fix metasploit. I'm not sure what other problems I will run into with this upgrade, but not having metasploit to play with was quite irritating. When you try to access the framework the following errors are produced:

When accessing Metasploit from the desktop environment:
sh: msfconsole: command not found
sh: msfupdate: command not found
sh: msfcli: command not found

When accessing Metasploit from the command line the following errors are produced:
msfconsole: command not found
msfupdate: command not found
msfcli: command not found
I tried to figure out a solution, then I tried to find a solution. I couldn't find anything, but I didn't want to just uninstall/reinstall since that felt like defeat. Then I realized that I was just wasting my own time when I already knew that uninstalling and reinstalling metasploit would fix my problem. I removed metasploit then used the installer I had previously downloaded from Rapid7's website for v4.4. The install went smoothly and I proceeded to run msfupdate afterwards. Now I'm back in business fooling around in my test environment.

So why am I writing a post about a frustrating, yet easy to solve problem? As a word of caution to those of you who like me, frustrate easy. R3 maybe the latest and greatest but as of this posting it is not stable and doesn't mix well with R2 if you're performing an upgrade. If stability is important to you, or you don't want to have to spend any time fixing your backtrack it maybe wise to wait a few more weeks before trying to upgrade to R3.