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James C. Foster and Vincent Liu
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Acknowledgments
Additional contributors, chapter 1 - writing exploits and security tools.
Pages 1 - 21
Chapter 2 - Assembly and Shellcode
Pages 23 - 97
Chapter 3 - Exploits : Stack
Pages 99 - 159
Chapter 4 - Exploits : Heap
Pages 161 - 200
Chapter 5 - Exploits : Format Strings
Pages 201 - 239
Chapter 6 - Writing Exploits I
Pages 241 - 261
Chapter 7 - Writing Exploits II
Pages 263 - 318
Chapter 8 - Coding for Ethereal
Pages 319 - 392
Chapter 9 - Coding for Nessus
Pages 393 - 452
Chapter 10 - Extending Metasploit I
Pages 453 - 490
Chapter 11 - Extending Metasploit II
Pages 491 - 537
Chapter 12 - Extending Metasploit III
Pages 539 - 596
Appendix A - Data Conversion Reference
Pages 597 - 603
Appendix B - Syscall Reference
Pages 605 - 608
Appendix C - Taps Currently Embedded Within Ethereal
Pages 609 - 611
Appendix D - Glossary
Pages 613 - 621
Pages 623 - 638
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Writing Security Tools and Exploits will be the foremost authority on vulnerability and security code and will serve as the premier educational reference for security professionals and software developers. The book will have over 600 pages of dedicated exploit, vulnerability, and tool code with corresponding instruction. Unlike other security and programming books that dedicate hundreds of pages to architecture and theory based flaws and exploits, this book will dive right into deep code analysis. Previously undisclosed security research in combination with superior programming techniques will be included in both the Local and Remote Code sections of the book. The book will be accompanied with a companion Web site containing both commented and uncommented versions of the source code examples presented throughout the book. In addition to the book source code, the CD will also contain a copy of the author-developed Hacker Code Library v1.0. The Hacker Code Library will include multiple attack classes and functions that can be utilized to quickly create security programs and scripts. These classes and functions will simplify exploit and vulnerability tool development to an extent never before possible with publicly available software.
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* Provides readers with working code to develop and modify the most common security tools including Nmap and Nessus * Learn to reverse engineer and write exploits for various operating systems, databases, and applications * Automate reporting and analysis of security log files
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Vincent is a recognized expert with regular columns in Dark Reading and SecurityWeek. He has presented at Black Hat, ToorCon, InfoSec World, SANS, and Microsoft BlueHat. In addition to regularly being cited by the press, Vincent has been interviewed and quoted in Al Jazeera, USA Today, NPR, and CSO Magazine. He has also co-authored several industry best-selling books, including: Hacking Exposed Wireless 1st and 2nd Edition; Hacking Exposed Web Applications 3rd Edition, and most recently Web Application Security: A Beginner’s Guide.
Prior to founding Bishop Fox, Vincent led the Attack & Penetration team for the Global Security unit at Honeywell International. Before that, he was a consultant with the Ernst & Young Advanced Security Centers and an analyst at the National Security Agency.
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Foster is the Deputy Director of Global Security Solution Development for Computer Sciences Corporation where he is responsible for the vision and development of physical, personnel, and data security solutions.
Bryan Sullivan, Senior Security Researcher at Adobe Systems, was previously Security Program Manager at Microsoft and a development manager at HP, where he helped to design HP's vulnerability scanning tools WebInspect and DevInspect. Bryan speaks at industry conferences such as Black Hat, RSA, BlueHat and TechEd.
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Thanks to the precise four-week length of February this year, last month’s coincidence of Firefox and Microsoft updates has happened once again.
Last month, Microsoft dealt with three zero-days , by which we mean security holes that cybercriminals found first, and figured out how to abuse in real-life attacks before any patches were available.
(The name zero-day , or just 0-day , is a reminder of the fact that even the most progressive and proactive patchers amongst us enjoyed precisely zero days during which we could have been ahead of the crooks.)
In March 2023, there are two zero-day fixes, one in Outlook , and the other in Windows SmartScreen .
Intriguingly for a bug that was discovered in the wild, albeit one reported rather blandly by Microsoft as Exploitation Detected , the Outlook flaw is jointly credited to CERT-UA (the Ukrainian Computer Emergency Response Team), Microsoft Incident Response, and Microsoft Threat Intelligence.
You can make of that what you will.
Outlook EoP
This bug, dubbed CVE-2023-23397: Microsoft Outlook Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (EoP), is described as follows:
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could access a user’s Net-NTLMv2 hash which could be used as a basis of an NTLM Relay attack against another service to authenticate as the user. […] The attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted email which triggers automatically when it is retrieved and processed by the Outlook client. This could lead to exploitation BEFORE the email is viewed in the Preview Pane. […] External attackers could send specially crafted emails that will cause a connection from the victim to an external UNC location of attackers’ control. This will leak the Net-NTLMv2 hash of the victim to the attacker who can then relay this to another service and authenticate as the victim.
To explain.
Net-NTLMv2 authentication, which we’ll just call NTLM2 for short, works very roughly like this,:
Actually, there’s a fair bit more to it than that, because there are actually two keyed hashes, one mixing in the two 8-byte random-challenge numbers and the other mixing in additional data including your username, domain name and the current time.
But the underlying principle is the same.
Neither your actual password or the stored hash of your password, for example from Active Directory, is ever transmitted, so it can’t leak in transit.
Also, both sides get to inject 8 bytes of their own randomness every time, which prevents either party from sneakily re-using an old challenge string in the hope of ending up with the same the keyed hash as in a previous session.
(Wrapping in the time and other logon-specific data adds extra protection against so-called replay attacks , but we’ll ignore those details here.)
Sitting in the middle
As you can imagine, given that the attacker can trick you into trying to “logon” to their fake server (either when you read the booby-trapped email or, worse, when Outlook starts processing it on your behalf, before you even get a glimpse of how bogus it might look), you end up leaking a single, valid NTLM2 response.
That response is intended to prove to the other end not only that you really do know the password of the account you claim is yours, but also (because of the challenge data mixed in) that you’re not just re-using a previous answer.
So, as Microsoft warns, an attacker who can time things right might be able to start authenticating to a genuine server as you, without knowing your password or its hash, just to get an 8-byte starting challenge from the real server…
…and then pass that challenge back to you at the moment you get tricked into trying to login to their fake server.
If you then compute the keyed hash and send it back as your “proof I know my own password right now”, the crooks might be able to relay that correctly-calculated reply back to the genuine server they’re trying to infiltrate, and thus to trick that server into accepting them as if they were you.
In short, you definitely want to patch against this one, because even if the attack requires lots of tries, time and luck, and isn’t terribly likely to work, we already know that it’s a case of “Exploitation Detected” .
In other words, the attack can be made to work, and has succeeded at least once against an unsuspecting victim who themelves did nothing risky or wrong.
SmartScreen security bypass
The second zero-day is CVE-2023-24880 , and this one pretty much describes itself: Windows SmartScreen Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability .
Simply put, Windows usually tags files that arrive via the internet with a flag that says, “This file came from outside; treat it with kid gloves and don’t trust it too much.”
This where-it-came-from flag used to be known as a file’s Internet Zone identifier, and it reminds Windows how much (or how little) trust it should put in the content of that file when it is subsequently used.
These days, the Zone ID (for what it’s worth, an ID of 3 denotes “from the internet”) is usually referred to by the more dramatic and memorable name Mark of the Web , or MotW for short.
Technically, this Zone ID is stored in along with the file in what’s known as an Alternate Data Stream , or ADS , but files can only have ADS data if they’re stored on NTFS-formatted Wiindows disks. If you save a file to a FAT volume, for example, or copy it to a non-NTFS drive, the Zone ID is lost, so this protective label is not perrmanent.
This bug means that some files that come in from outside – for example, downloads or email attachments – don’t get tagged with the right MotW identifier, so they sneakily sidestep Microsoft’s official security checks.
Microsoft’s public bulletin doesn’t say exactly what types of file (images? Office documents? PDFs? all of them?) can be infiltrated into your network in this way, but does warn very broadly that “security features such as Protected View in Microsoft Office” can be bypassed with this trick.
We’re guessing this means that malicious files that would usually be rendered harmless, for example by having built-in macro code suppressed, might be able to spring into life unexpectedly when viewed or opened.
Once again, the update will bring you back on par with the attackers, so: Don’t delay/Patch it today .
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Hello Paul and friends I got this warning from Firefox the other day : Search results for your ******@hotmail.com account have detected that your email may have been exposed. We recommend you act now to resolve this breach. I’m on Linux and use the Thunderbird client for several email accounts. Is it sufficient to log onto my micro soft account in a web browser and change the password? cheers Ralph
You might as well change your password (if you have a password manager it’s easy enough to invent and remember a new one)… and maybe consider turning on 2FA at the same time for a bit more protection?
The problem with those “your email is on a list” warnings is that they don’t really tell you much more than “some crooks have data that includes your email address and perhaps other data that may or may not be correct.” (Did they get a password to go with it? A phone number? An address? Was any of that additional data actually correct? Who can say?)
I already know that 100s or 1000s of crooks gave my email just from the quantity of spam, scam and phishing emails I get…
It’s true, I get more junk in my junk folder than regular mail, I suspect even my former bank doxxed my email address to all their partners. I’ve had hotmail since 1998, it was my first email account so over the years before all this cyber insecurity blossomed, it was my main account. It is going to take a while to change my email address with my banks etc. over to my gandi.net email. I hope gandi is reputable.
Why not just keep both addresses?
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Writing Security Tools and Exploits will be the foremost authority on vulnerability and security code and will serve as the premier educational reference for security professionals and software developers. The book will have over 600 pages of dedicated exploit, vulnerability, and tool code with corresponding instruction. ...
The book will have over 600 pages of dedicated exploit, vulnerability, and tool code with corresponding instruction. Unlike other security and programming books that dedicate hundreds of pages to architecture and theory based flaws and exploits, this book will dive right into deep code analysis.
Writing Security Tools and Exploits will be the foremost authority on vulnerability and security code and will serve as the premier educational reference for security professionals and software developers. The book will have over 600 pages of dedicated exploit, vulnerability, and tool code with corresponding instruction.
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Writing security tools and exploits by Foster, James C Publication date 2006 Topics Computer security -- Handbooks, manuals, etc, COMPUTERS -- Internet -- Security, COMPUTERS -- Networking -- Security, COMPUTERS -- Security -- General, Computer security Publisher Rockland, MA : Syngress Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks
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Abstract. This chapter describes the exploitation frameworks and discusses the reason for this exploits working against only service packs of Windows 2000. The complexity and impact of exploits is ...
Writing security tools and exploits. Foster, James C. and Vincent Liu. Syngress Media, Inc. 2006 638 pages $49.95 Paperback QA76.9 Exploits are programs developed by hackers that take advantage of weaknesses in code. In this work Foster (executive director of global product development, Computer Sciences Corporation), Liu ("an IT security ...
Writing Security Tools and Exploits Learn to read, analyze, modify, and write custom exploits and enhance security tools with little or no assistance with help from this authoritative text. TABLE OF CONTENTS
Writing Security Tools and Exploits will be the foremost authority on vulnerability and security code and will serve as the premier educational reference for security professionals and software developers. The book will have over 600 pages of dedicated exploit, vulnerability, and tool code with corresponding instruction. Unlike other security and programming books that dedicate hundreds of ...
Writing Security Tools and Exploits will be the foremost authority on vulnerability and security code and will serve as the premier educational reference for security professionals and software developers. The book will have over 600 pages of dedicated exploit, vulnerability, and tool code with...
Writing security tools and exploits by James C Foster, 2006, Syngress edition, in English
Writing Security Tools and Exploits. Learn to read, analyze, modify, and write custom exploits and enhance security tools with little or no assistance with help from this authoritative text. TABLE OF CONTENTS . Writing Security Tools and Exploits. Chapter 1: Writing Exploits and Security Tools.
Writing Security Tools and Exploits by James C. Foster, 2006, Elsevier Science & Technology Books edition, in English
Writing Security Tools and Exploits will be the foremost authority on vulnerability and security code and will serve as the premier educational reference for security professionals and software developers. The book will have over 600 pages of dedicated exploit, vulnerability, and tool code with corresponding instruction. ...
Writing Security Tools and Exploits will be the foremost authority on vulnerability and security code and will serve as the premier educational reference for security professionals and software developers. The book will have over 600 pages of dedicated exploit, vulnerability, and tool code with corresponding instruction. ...
SmartScreen security bypass. The second zero-day is CVE-2023-24880, and this one pretty much describes itself: Windows SmartScreen Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability. Simply put, Windows ...