Monthly Archives: January 2013

PHP Shell

Posted on January 27, 2013 by Fabian Affolter

Sometimes it’s useful to have shell access to a web server with sh ell on the client machine. PHP Shell provides an interface to execute shell commands or browse the filesystem on your remote web server. The complete guide is … Continue ...

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NOWASP (Mutillidae)

Posted on January 27, 2013 by Fabian Affolter

NOWASP (Mutillidae) is a vulnerable web-application. Similar to DVWA it provides a target for web security tests. The operating system is Alpine Linux with Lighttpd. The first step is to setup Lighttpd With FastCGI. MySQL is needed to serve as &helli...

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mock als virtuelle Maschine

Posted on January 19, 2013 by Fabian Affolter

Here are the required steps, first run in your host: xhost +localhost (GUI only) + enable network connections to your X server mock -r fedora-devel-x86_64 init mock -r fedora-devel-x86_64 install app_you_want_to_run cp -a /usr/share/X11/fonts /var/li...

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Check your OpenVAS installation

Posted on January 19, 2013 by Fabian Affolter

If you think that something went wrong during the installation of OpenVAS or just want to check if everything is ok, then the openvas-check-setup script can help. [crayon-5f0c08aa3fee9789666389/] Make it executable [crayon-5f0c08aa3feef916113362/] Be...

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fedup

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Fabian Affolter

Beside the yum way to update a running Fedora system I used preupgrade a couple of times in the past. Yesterday I gave fedup a try. Well, the process went seamless. It’s only a bit annoying that fedup doesn’t give … Continue readin...

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flunym0us

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Fabian Affolter

flunym0us is another vulnerability scanner for WordPress. flunym0us is similar to wpscan but includes test for moodle....

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Banner grabbing 3

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Fabian Affolter

nmap can do the same with the help of NSE. [crayon-5f0c08aa4025e592009177/]  ...

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Android Mini PC MK802

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Fabian Affolter

My latest toy to play around is an Android Mini PC MK802 from Rikomagic. I like the RaspberryPi but from my point of view the missing wireless capability is a big disadvantage of the Pi. A very cool feature of … Continue reading →...

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WordPress Pingback PortScanner

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Fabian Affolter

While playing around with wpscan I noticed in the output that there was another tool mentioned called WordPressPingbackPortScanner. First checkout the source file from github. [crayon-5f0c08aa40527248019387/] Switch to directory which was created dur...

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SQLol

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Fabian Affolter

SQLol is a SQL injection playground which allows you to exploit and detect SQL injection flaws. [crayon-5f0c08aa40a00801266462/] Create a symlink in the web server and edit the configuration file to match your MySQL configuration. [crayon-5f0c08aa40a...

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WPscan

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Fabian Affolter

WordPress is very a very common blogging platform and CMS nowadays. Bigger popularity attracts more bad guys and script kiddies to do evil stuff against your WordPress instance. To get yourself a clearer picture about your own site, wpscan can &helli...

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Bcfg2 1.3.0rc1

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Fabian Affolter

Today the first release candidate for Bcfg2 1.3.0 was released. Bcfg2 1.3.0rc1 is a release candidate, and should be representational of the final 1.3.0 release. The code is quite stable at this point, but this remains a release *candidate*, so &hell...

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Banner grabbing 2

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Fabian Affolter

Another option for banner grabbing is wbox. This post is just an addition to this one. wbox [crayon-5f0c08aa411ff326831024/]...

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node.js and Fedora, II

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Fabian Affolter

The sad times without node.js in Fedora were over…so far the only easy way to install node.js on a Fedora-based system was the usage of a third-party repos which was outdated. But now, thanks to Stephan, Matthias, and all other … Continu...

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Banner grabbing

Posted on January 8, 2013 by Fabian Affolter

For the reconnaissance part or target server enumeration of a security audit banner grabbing is a technique to gain information about computer systems (which are defined in the test scope). As usual there are many ways to do it. Below … Contin...

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