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Sniffing and Evasion

Basic Knowledge

  • Sniffing is capturing packets as they pass on the wire to review for interesting information
  • MAC (Media Access Control) - physical or burned-in address - assigned to NIC for communications at the Data Link layer
    • 48 bits long
    • Displayed as 12 hex characters separated by colons
    • First half of address is the organizationally unique identifier - identifies manufacurer
    • Second half ensures no two cards on a subnet will have the same address
  • NICs normally only process signals meant for it
  • Promiscuous mode - NIC must be in this setting to look at all frames passing on the wire
  • CSMA/CD - Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection - used over Ethernet to decide who can talk
  • Collision Domains
    • Traffic from your NIC (regardless of mode) can only be seen within the same collision domain
    • Hubs by default have one collision domain
    • Switches have a collision domain for each port

Protocols Susceptible

  • SMTP is sent in plain text and is viewable over the wire. SMTP v3 limits the information you can get, but you can still see it.
  • FTP sends user ID and password in clear text
  • TFTP passes everything in clear text
  • IMAP, POP3, NNTP and HTTP all send over clear text data
  • TCP shows sequence numbers (usable in session hijacking)
  • TCP and UCP show open ports
  • IP shows source and destination addresses

ARP

  • Stands for Address Resolution Protocol
  • Resolves IP address to a MAC address
  • Packets are ARP_REQUEST and ARP_REPLY
  • Each computer maintains it's own ARP cache, which can be poisoned
  • Commands
    • arp -a - displays current ARP cache
    • arp -d * - clears ARP cache
  • Works on a broadcast basis - both requests and replies are broadcast to everyone
  • Gratuitous ARP - special packet to update ARP cache even without a request
    • This is used to poison cache on other machines

IPv6

  • Uses 128-bit address
  • Has eight groups of four hexadecimal digits
  • Sections with all 0s can be shorted to nothing (just has start and end colons)
  • Double colon can only be used once
  • Loopback address is ::1
IPv6 Address Type Description
Unicast Addressed and intended for one host interface
Multicast Addressed for multiple host interfaces
Anycast Large number of hosts can receive; nearest host opens
IPv6 Scopes Description
Link local Applies only to hosts on the same subnet (Address block fe80::/10)
Site local Applies to hosts within the same organization (Address block FEC0::/10)
Global Includes everything
  • Scope applies for multicast and anycast
  • Traditional network scanning is computationally less feasible

Wiretapping

  • Lawful interception - legally intercepting communications between two parties
  • Active - interjecting something into the communication
  • Passive - only monitors and records the data
  • PRISM - system used by NSA to wiretap external data coming into US

Active and Passive Sniffing

  • Passive sniffing - watching network traffic without interaction; only works for same collision domain
  • Active sniffing - uses methods to make a switch send traffic to you even though it isn't destined for your machine
  • Span port - switch configuration that makes the switch send a copy of all frames from other ports to a specific port
    • Not all switches have the ability to do this
    • Modern switches sometimes don't allow span ports to send data - you can only listen
  • Network tap - special port on a switch that allows the connected device to see all traffic
  • Port mirroring - another word for span port

MAC Flooding

  • Switches either flood or forward data
  • If a switch doesn't know what MAC address is on a port, it will flood the data until it finds out
  • CAM Table - the table on a switch that stores which MAC address is on which port
    • If table is empty or full, everything is sent to all ports
  • This works by sending so many MAC addresses to the CAM table that it can't keep up
  • Tools
    • Etherflood
    • Macof
  • Switch port stealing - tries to update information regarding a specific port in a race condition
  • MAC Flooding will often destroy the switch before you get anything useful, doesn't last long and it will get you noticed. Also, most modern switches protect against this.

ARP Poisioning

  • Also called ARP spoofing or gratuitous ARP
  • This can trigger alerts because of the constant need to keep updating the ARP cache of machines
  • Changes the cache of machines so that packets are sent to you instead of the intended target
  • Countermeasures
    • Dynamic ARP Inspection using DHCP snooping
    • XArp can also watch for this
    • Default gateway MAC can also be added permanently into each machine's cache
  • Tools
    • Cain and Abel
    • WinArpAttacker
    • Ufasoft
    • dsniff

DHCP Starvation

  • Attempt to exhaust all available addresses from the server
  • Attacker sends so many requests that the address space allocated is exhausted
  • DHCPv4 packets - DHCPDISCOVER, DHCPOFFER, DHCPREQUEST, DHCPACK
  • DHCPv6 packets - Solicit, Advertise, Request (Confirm/Renew), Reply
  • DHCP Steps
    1. Client sends DHCPDISCOVER
    2. Server responds with DHCPOFFER
    3. Client sends request for IP with DHCPREQUEST
    4. Server sends address and config via DHCPACK
  • Tools
    • Yersinia
    • DHCPstarv
  • Mitigation is to configure DHCP snooping
  • Rogue DHCP Server - setup to offer addresses instead of real server. Can be combined with starvation to real server.

Spoofing

  • MAC Spoofing - changes your MAC address. Benefit is CAM table uses most recent address.
  • Port security can slow this down, but doesn't always stop it
  • MAC Spoofing makes the switch send all packets to your address instead of the intended one until the CAM table is updated with the real address again
  • IRDP Spoofing - hacker sends ICMP Router Discovery Protocol messages advertising a malicious gateway
  • DNS Poisioning - changes where machines get their DNS info from, allowing attacker to redirect to malicious websites

Sniffing Tools

  • Wireshark
    • Previously known as Ethereal
    • Can be used to follow streams of data
    • Can also filter the packets so you can find a specific type or specific source address
    • Example filters
      • ! (arp or icmp or dns) - filters out the "noise" from ARP, DNS and ICMP requests
      • http.request - displays HTTP GET requests
      • tcp contains string - displays TCP segments that contain the word "string"
      • ip.addr==172.17.15.12 && tcp.port==23 - displays telnet packets containing that IP
      • tcp.flags==0x16 - filters TCP requests with ACK flag set
  • tcpdump
    • Recent version is WinDump (for Windows)
    • Syntax
      • tcpdump flag(s) interface
      • tcpdump -i eth1 - puts the interface in listening mode
  • tcptrace
    • Analyzes files produced by packet capture programs such as Wireshark, tcpdump and Etherpeek
  • Other Tools
    • Ettercap - also can be used for MITM attacks, ARP poisoning. Has active and passive sniffing.
    • Capsa Network Analyzer
    • Snort - usually discussed as an Intrusion Detection application
    • Sniff-O-Matic
    • EtherPeek
    • WinDump
    • WinSniffer

Devices To Evade

  • Intrusion Detection System (IDS) - hardware or software devices that examine streams of packets for malicious behavior
    • Signature based - compares packets against a list of known traffic patterns
    • Anomaly based - makes decisions on alerts based on learned behavior and "normal" patterns
    • False negative - case where traffic was malicious, but the IDS did not pick it up
    • HIDS (Host-based intrusion detection system) - IDS that is host-based
    • NIDS (Network-based intrusion detection system) - IDS that scans network traffic
  • Snort - a widely deployed IDS that is open source
    • Includes a sniffer, traffic logger and a protocol analyzer
    • Runs in three different modes
      • Sniffer - watches packets in real time
      • Packet logger - saves packets to disk for review at a later time
      • NIDS - analyzes network traffic against various rule sets
    • Configuration is in /etc/snort on Linux and c:\snort\etc in Windows
    • Rule syntax
      • alert tcp !HOME_NET any -> $HOME_NET 31337 (msg : "BACKDOOR ATTEMPT-Backorifice")
        • This alerts about traffic coming not from an external network to the internal one on port 31337
    • Example output
      • 10/19-14:48:38.543734 0:48:542:2A:67 -> 0:10:B5:3C:34:C4 type:0x800 len:0x5EA xxx -> xxx TCP TTL:64 TOS:0x0 ID:18112 IpLen:20 DgmLen:1500 DF
      • Important info is bolded
  • Firewall
    • An appliance within a network that protects internal resources from unauthorized access
    • Only uses rules that implicitly denies traffic unless it is allowed
    • Oftentimes uses network address translation (NAT) which can apply a one-to-one or one-to-many relationship between external and internal IP addresses
    • Screened subnet - hosts all public-facing servers and services
    • Bastion hosts - hosts on the screened subnet designed to protect internal resources
    • Private zone - hosts internal hosts that only respond to requests from within that zone
    • Multi-homed - firewall that has two or more interfaces
    • Packet-filtering - firewalls that only looked at headers
    • Stateful inspection - firewalls that track the entire status of a connection
    • Circuit-level gateway - firewall that works on Layer 5 (Session layer)
    • Application-level gateway - firewall that works like a proxy, allowing specific services in and out

Evasion Techniques

  • Slow down - faster scanning such as using nmap's -T5 switch will get you caught. Pros use -T1 switch to get better results
  • Flood the network - trigger alerts that aren't your intended attack so that you confuse firewalls/IDS and network admins
  • Fragmentation - splits up packets so that the IDS can't detect the real intent
  • Unicode encoding - works with web requests - using Unicode characters instead of ascii can sometimes get past
  • Tools
    • Nessus - also a vulnerability scanner
    • ADMmutate - creates scripts not recognizable by signature files
    • NIDSbench - older tool for fragmenting bits
    • Inundator - flooding tool

Firewall Evasion

  • ICMP Type 3 Code 13 will show that traffic is being blocked by firewall
  • ICMP Type 3 Code 3 tells you the client itself has the port closed
  • Firewall type can be discerned by banner grabbing
  • Firewalking - going through every port on a firewall to determine what is open
  • Tools
    • CovertTCP
    • ICMP Shell
    • 007 Shell
  • The best way around a firewall will always be a compromised internal machine

Honeypots

  • A system setup as a decoy to entice attackers
  • Should not include too many open services or look too easy to attack
  • High interaction - simulates all services and applications and is designed to be completely compromised
  • Low interaction - simulates a number of services and cannot be completely compromised
  • Examples
    • Specter
    • Honeyd
    • KFSensor