From: Liam Downward (ldownward@pervasivesolutions.net)
Date: Sun Feb 25 2007 - 08:06:34 EST
A possible addition for Social Engineering is to gain entrance to a
network via "Human curiosity" with the use of USB thumb drives that can
be of any size (64mb, 512mb etc), that can be strategically dropped in
employee area's like, kitchens, parking lots, and or doctor lounges
etc...
The USB thumb drive contains a simple application that is hidden and it
can capture simple information of the network or you can have the
application install a keylogger to capture usernames/passwords etc... to
show the company in question how simple it is to gather information
about the network for an attack or to turn machines into bots
The application is initiated when an employee has found a USB thumb
drive and their curiosity gets the better of them. Then they plug the
USB thumb drive into their workstation or laptop to see what is on the
USB thumb drive. This is when the hidden application on the USB thumb
drive is executed via two methods:
1. If the machine in which the USB thumb drive is plugged into has
AutoRun enabled the app will execute.
2. If AutoRun is not enabled then there is shortcuts on the USB thumb
drive to entice the employee to click, which will execute the hidden
application. Below are some examples of embedded shortcuts:
Resume.doc
Company Payscale.xls
Johnny Cash (I Walk the Line).mp3
The application will encrypt the information captured and email to the
testers for review, then the application along with the embedded
shortcuts will delete themselves from the USB thumb drive.
Liam Downward
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On Behalf Of crazy frog crazy frog
Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 9:58 AM
To: toggmeister@vulnerabilityassessment.co.uk
Cc: pen-test@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Penetration Testing Framework 0.24 released
good work :)
On 23 Feb 2007 11:43:22 -0000,
toggmeister@vulnerabilityassessment.co.uk
<toggmeister@vulnerabilityassessment.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi all,
> The latest version of the Penetration Test Framework has been
released and can be found at:
>
> http://www.vulnerabilityassessment.co.uk/Penetration%20Test.html
>
> (Pdf version also available)
>
> Any additions/ suggestions would be gratefully received.
>
> The next release 0.25 should include a Wireless Pen Test add-on, with
the assistance from the guys at http://www.wirelessdefence.org and
hopefully a much extended cisco section that Lee is busy putting
together.
>
> Rgds
>
> Toggmeister a.k.a Kev Orrey
> http://www.vulnerabilityassessment.co.uk
>
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