Re: internal IP address revealed by e-mail

From: Chris McNab (chris.mcnab@trustmatta.com)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 15:00:00 EDT


Hey,

There aren't any situations I can think of where you can run firewalk
against non-routable private addresses from the Internet. Your best bets at
network level are the following:

1) Abuse a stateful inspection problems (see Lopatic, Song & McDonald's
Blackhat 2000 presentation about this):

  - using malformed FTP PORT or PASV commands against accessible FTP servers
to punch holes through the firewall to other addresses and hosts
  - using FWZ encapsulation against older Checkpoint devices

2) Use malformed IP source routing options in your packets to try and route
packets to internal addresses, although this requires some investigation &
testing.. a good tool is Todd MacDermid's lsrscan (www.synacklabs.net).

Standard application level stuff includes exploiting a known vulnerability
to gain internal network access. There are many different ways to do this,
depending on which vulnerable services or applications you find, my
favorites are:

  - FTP PORT bouncing
  - finger redirection & bouncing

If the addresses are private, it's always going to be a pain talking to them
across the Internet, even more so if firewalls and proxies are in place. I'm
putting together a lengthy paper about these kinds of advanced techniques,
and will let the list know in due course.

Regards,

Chris

Chris McNab
Technical Director

Matta Security Limited
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