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Pen test for sys admin
1. Penetration Testing
for System
Administrators
Sept 13, 2010
ryan Linn
NCSA Meeting
Thursday, September 23, 2010
2. Agenda
• Introduction
• Description of Penetration Testing
• Overview of Process
• Walkthrough of Common Tasks
• Questions/Closing
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3. Introduction
• Information Security Engineer at SAS
• Columnist at EthicalHacker.net
• Contributed code to Metasploit,
Browser Exploitation Framework
(BeEF), and Nikto
• Spoken at numerous regional and
national security conferences
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4. Description of Pen
Testing
• Means different things to different
people
• Find vulnerabilities and stop
• Find vulnerabilities and verify
• Find vulnerabilities and see how far
you can get
• For today: Find vulnerabilities and verify
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5. Overview of Process
• Recon
• Discovery/Scanning
• Enumeration
• Exploitation
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6. Recon
• Non Invasive
• Whois
• Google
• Basic DNS Queries
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7. Discovery/Scanning
• Port Scans
• In-depth DNS queries
• Vulnerability Scanning
• OS Identification
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8. Enumeration
• SMB enumeration
• Oracle DB Enumeration
• User enumeration
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9. Exploitation
• Leverage information gathered
• Verify vulnerability information
• Possibly go back to gather more
information if successful
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12. Exploitation/
Verification
• Metasploit
• Penetration Testing Framework
• Aids in Exploit Development
• Exploitation of Vulnerability
• Also has scanning capability
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13. Docs/Training
• SANS Sec504 : Incident Handling
• SANS Sec580: Metasploit Kung Fu for
Enterprise Pen Testing
• http://www.offensive-security.com/
metasploit-unleashed
• http://www.EthicalHacker.net
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