UPDATE: Nmap 7.80

PenTestIT RSS Feed Good news guys! The Nmap 7.80 update is now available and this is the Defcon release. We've had to wait for such a long time since the guys behind Nmap were extremely busy improving the Npcap raw packet capturing/sending driver. It now uses modern APIs and is more performant as...

UPDATE: MITRE CALDERA 2.2.0

PenTestIT RSS Feed If you remember, I wrote briefly about this automated adversary emulation system in my post titled – List of Adversary Emulation Tools. Sometime back, an update - the MITRE CALDERA 2.2.0 was released. A lot of changes have been made to create this updated version and as always,...

UPDATE: SILENTTRINITY v0.3.0

PenTestIT RSS Feed Just yesterday, I wrote about this open source post-exploitation C2 framework and a new release is already available. The post was titled - List of Open Source C2 Post-Exploitation Frameworks. We now have SILENTTRINITY v0.3.0 amongst us, which was in the works for a long time!...

List of Open Source C2 Post-Exploitation Frameworks

PenTestIT RSS Feed This post has been lying in my drafts for more than a year with edits all over. But two days ago, it was announced that Powershell Empire would no longer be supported by it's authors. Hence just like I curated a list of adversary emulation tools, I finalized this list of open...

Drupal (SA-CORE-2019-008) Wordspaces Extension Access Bypass PoC

PenTestIT RSS Feed Last week, an advisory SA-CORE-2019-008 addressing a Drupal access bypass vulnerability was made public. MITRE assigned CVE-2019-6342 to this critical vulnerability. This is post to document the steps I took to create a PoC for SA-CORE-2019-008. Last such post on this blog was...

UPDATE: OWASP Dependency-Check 5.1.0

PenTestIT RSS Feed My first post about this open source OWASP project was about an older version. Some days back, a new version was released. This post discusses the changes made to the open source software composition analysis utility in the latest release yesterday. This is the OWASP...

Electronegativity: An Open Source Electron Security Auditor

PenTestIT RSS Feed Electron is a pretty recent framework for building desktop applications and there are not many tools that deal with the security part either. There is a electronjs security checklist, providing guidelines for building secure applications, but there is no tool per-se - atleast...

UPDATE: Ostinato 0.9!

PenTestIT RSS Feed This tool came to my rescue yet again today! If you remember, I had blogged about this tool in my older post titled - Ostinato: The Network Traffic Generator and Analyzer! As always, before using any tool I tried to update it and there it was - Ostinato 0.9. This update was...

UPDATE: Cuckoo Sandbox 2.0.7

PenTestIT RSS Feed It has been some time that I posted about the Cuckoo Sandbox. Good news is that the guys at the Cuckoo Foundation are not silent and have released the Cuckoo Sandbox 2.0.7, with lots of improvements, code cleanup, support for VirtualBox 6 and the well deserved support for the...

Unprotect Project: Classify Malwares Based on Known Evasion Techniques

PenTestIT RSS Feed One of the first steps in learning about a malware is to see if it is evasive in any sense and then proceed accordingly. The Unprotect Project helps you do this easily. It is an open source project in Python that proposes a malware classification techniques based on their evasi...

UPDATE: Sysdig Falco v0.15.1

PenTestIT RSS Feed Three days ago, an updated version – Sysdig Falco v0.15.1 – was released. It has been some time since I last blogged about this open source behavorial activity monitor which has container support. This release remediates integration issues with Anchore by updating urllib3 and...

UPDATE: OWASP Dependency-Check 5.0.0

PenTestIT RSS Feed My first post about this open source OWASP project was about an older version. About 18 hours ago, a new version was released. This post discusses the changes made to the open source software composition analysis utility in the latest release yesterday. This is the OWASP...

UPDATE: Kali Linux 2019.2 Release

PenTestIT RSS Feed Kali Linux 2019.2, the latest and the greatest Kali Linux release is now officially available! This is the second 2019 release, which comes after Kali Linux 2019.1, that was made available in the month of February. This new release majorly focuses on Kali Linux NetHunter update...

UPDATE: Sysdig Falco v0.15.0

PenTestIT RSS Feed Three days ago, an updated version – Sysdig Falco v0.15.0 – was released. It has been some time since I last blogged about this open source behavorial activity monitor which has container support. This release incorporates a lot of rule updates that are now also tagged the for...

UPDATE: MITRE CALDERA 2.0

PenTestIT RSS Feed I read a tweet about two days ago and today, MITRE CALDERA 2.0 is out already! If you remember, I wrote briefly about this automated adversary emulation system in my post titled - List of Adversary Emulation Tools. This is a major update and the current version supports Windows...

UPDATE: Sysdig Falco v0.14.0

PenTestIT RSS Feed Recently, an updated version - Sysdig Falco v0.14.0 - was released. It has been some time since I last blogged about this open source behavorial activity monitor which has container support. What is Sysdig Falco? Sysdig Falco is an open source, behavioral activity monitor...

UPDATE: AutoSploit 3.0 – The New Year’s edition

PenTestIT RSS Feed I wrote about AutoSploit in a post titled AutoSploit = Shodan/Censys/Zoomeye + Metasploit and it's subsequent update to AutoSploit 2.2. Recently, AutoSploit 3.0 was released. This post tries to describe the changes between the last release and the newest version as this release...

UPDATE: Kali Linux 2019.1 Release!

PenTestIT RSS Feed Kali Linux 2019.1 is the latest Kali Linux release. This is the first 2019 release, which comes after Kali Linux 2018.4, that was made available in the month of October. This new release includes all patches, fixes, updates, and improvements since the last release – Kali Linux...

UPDATE: Buscador Version 2.0

PenTestIT RSS Feed I briefly mentioned about Buscador in my previous post titled - List of Operating Systems for OSINT Open-Source Intelligence. A few days ago, an updated - Buscador Version 2.0 was made available by the author. This post is about the changes made in the latest version. What is...

BEEMKA: Basic Electron Post-Exploitation Framework

PenTestIT RSS Feed There are a lot of applications today that use Electron Framework, as it helps you build cross platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Examples are applications such as Skype, Station, etc. A new post-exploitation framework - BEEMKA can now help you in maintaining...

UPDATE: Cameradar v3.0.1

PenTestIT RSS Feed My initial post covering this open source Real Time Streaming Protocol RTSP surveillance camera access multi-tool was about an older version. A lot has happened since then and an update – Cameradar v3.0.1 was recently made available by the author. In actuality, this post...

identYwaf: A Tool to Help You Identify Web Application Firewalls

PenTestIT RSS Feed I have been a fan of sqlmap for long and when the author released identYwaf recently, I wanted to try it out. Infact, all his other tools are awesome sauce too! Back to this post for now about this WAF identification tool. What is identYwaf? identYwaf is an open source, blind w...

UPDATE: XSStrike 3.1.2

PenTestIT RSS Feed My initial post about this advanced XSS detection and exploitation suite was almost an year ago! Three days ago, an update - XSStrike 3.1.2 was released. This is a post that documents these changes. What is XSStrike? XSStrike is a Cross Site Scripting detection suite equipped...

UPDATE: Infection Monkey 1.6.1

PenTestIT RSS Feed I'm sure you must have read my previous post title the List of Adversary Emulation Tools. In that post, I briefly mentioned about the Guardicore Infection Monkey. Good news now is that it has been updated! We now have Infection Monkey 1.6.1. An important change about this versi...

TOOL UPDATE: Cameradar v2.1.0

PenTestIT RSS Feed My initial post covering this open source Real Time Streaming Protocol RTSP surveillance camera access multi-tool was about an older version - Cameradar v2.0.0. A lot has happened since then and an update – Cameradar v2.1.0 was made available by the author. This version comes...

UPDATED VERSION: RouterSploit 3.4.0

PenTestIT RSS Feed RouterSploit 3.4.0, the long awaited router exploitation framework update is out guys! This release includes some really cool features and updates such as using pycryptodome from pycryptoand newer exploitation modules! Read on for the improvements. What is RouterSploit? The...

List of Operating Systems for OSINT (Open-Source Intelligence)

PenTestIT RSS Feed All of you must be well versed with the term OSINT and it's meaning. Wikipedia defines OSINT as the data collected from publicly available sources to be used in an intelligence context. There are multiple sources and tools which help you find this information. A good example is...

iBombShell: A Dynamic Post-Exploitation Remote Shell

PenTestIT RSS Feed Consider you have a shell on a system and other post-exploitation do not work for you as they are being caught by a security solution on the system. Worry not as we now have iBombShell, a dynamic remote shell that can be run on any system that supports PowerShell. The reason th...

Comparison of Open Source Adversary Emulation Tools

PenTestIT RSS Feed If you liked my older post titled "List of Adversary Emulation Tools", I am sure you must want to know what is the difference or comparison between the different tools. This post is an attempt to do just that -to list down the comparison of open source adversary emulation tools...

UPDATE: Kali Linux 2018.3 Release!

PenTestIT RSS Feed Kali Linux 2018.3 is the latest Kali Linux release. This is the third release which comes after the last release, that was made available in the month of April. This new release includes all patches, fixes, updates, and improvements since the last release – Kali Linux 2018.2,...

UPDATED VERSION: RouterSploit 3.3.0

PenTestIT RSS Feed Since my last update, this router exploitation framework have gone through a lot of updates. This post is about RouterSploit 3.3.0 code named I Know You Were Trouble. We will also discuss changes made to and an earlier version 3.2.0 to maintain a chain with the hopes that I kee...

UPDATE: OWASP Dependency-Check 3.3.0

PenTestIT RSS Feed My first post about this open source OWASP project was about an older version. This post discusses the changes made to the open source software composition analysis utility in the latest release yesterday. This is the OWASP Dependency-Check 3.3.0, which includes a lot of bug...

UPDATED VERSION: AutoSploit 2.2

PenTestIT RSS Feed It has been some days since there was a lot of hue and cry about AutoSploit and eventually everything subsided. I wrote about it in a post titled AutoSploit = Shodan/Censys/Zoomeye + Metasploit too. Recently, an updated an improved updated version - AutoSploit 2.2 was released...

UPDATE: OWASP Dependency-Check 3.2.1

PenTestIT RSS Feed My first post about this open source OWASP project was about an older version. This post discusses the changes made to the open source software composition analysis utility in the latest release yesterday. This is the OWASP Dependency-Check 3.2.1! Actually, this post is also...

UPDATE: Sysdig Falco v0.10.0

PenTestIT RSS Feed Four weeks ago, I posted about Sysdig Falco v0.9.0. A week ago, the open source behavorial activity monitor which has container support was updated to Sysdig Falco v0.10.0. This release includes a number of improvements focused on making Falco easier to deploy, improvements wit...

UPDATE: Kali Linux 2018.2 Release!

PenTestIT RSS Feed Second Kali Linux update of this year and this time, it is about the latest Kali Linux 2018.2 release! The last release was made available recently in the month of February. This new release includes all patches, fixes, updates, and improvements since the last release – Kali...

UPDATE: WordPress Exploit Framework v1.9.2

PenTestIT RSS Feed WPXF update time again guys! Since my first post about this WordPress exploitation framework almost a year ago, this tool has gotten better and a new version - WordPress Exploit Framework v1.9.2 has been released. This post will summarize the updates for the latest release such...

UPDATE: P4wnP1 v0.1.0-alpha1

PenTestIT RSS Feed P4wnP1 update time guys and this time it is the P4wnP1 v0.1.0-alpha1, the first pre-built image! It has almost been a year since I last posted about this Raspberry Pi based, customizable USB attack platform and yet, what an update! Read on! What is P4wnP1? P4wnP1 is a highly...

List of Adversary Emulation Tools

PenTestIT RSS Feed Every once in a while, the security industry brings forth a new buzz word and introduces terminologies that sound über cool and generate lot's of interest. One such word going around now-a-days is automated "adversary emulation". Let's first understand what this really means...

UPDATE: OWASP Dependency-Check 3.1.2

PenTestIT RSS Feed My first post about this open source OWASP project was about an older version. This post discusses the changes made to the open source software composition analysis utility in the latest release yesterday. This is the OWASP Dependency-Check 3.1.2! Most importantly NVD urls were...

AutoSploit = Shodan/Censys/Zoomeye + Metasploit

PenTestIT RSS Feed I know, I know that you already have read about AutoSploit and used it probably since word got out about this auto exploitation tool some two months ago. However, between then and now, a lot has changed with the tool and this post is about that. What is AutoSploit? AutoSploit i...

Apache JMeter RMI Code Execution PoC (CVE-2018-1297)

PenTestIT RSS Feed Recently, I read about a remote code execution RCE vulnerability; CVE-2018-1297, that affects yet another Apache product - JMeter. As you might know, "The Apache JMeter™ application is open source software, a 100% pure Java application designed to load test functional behavior...

UPDATE: Prowler 2.0 Beta

PenTestIT RSS Feed My older post about Prowler was about a good NINE months ago. Since then, a lot has changed and hence, this post is about the recently released update made to the AWS CIS Benchmark tool – Prowler 2.0 Beta! This new beta version has lots of improvements which you shall read abou...

UPDATE: Sysdig Falco v0.9.0

PenTestIT RSS Feed My last post from a almost nice months ago, was about an open source behavorial activity monitor which has container support. It was updated and we now have update – the Sysdig Falco v0.9.0! This release fixes a couple of driver and OSX build incompatibility issues. What is...

UPDATE: Nmap 7.70 Upgrade Available!

PenTestIT RSS Feed The first exciting Nmap release of 2018 is Nmap 7.70 with improved OS and service detection capabilities in addition to an improved Npcap 0.99-r2! None of us really need any introduction to this very popular “network mapper“ which now includes an additional 9 new NSE scripts!...

UPDATE: Kali Linux 2018.1 Release!

PenTestIT RSS Feed Second post of the new year and it is about the latest Kali Linux 2018.1 release! The last Kali Linux release was made available in the month of November. As usual, this new release includes all patches, fixes, updates, and improvements since the last release - Kali Linux 2017....

UPDATE: OWASP Dependency-Check 3.1.0

PenTestIT RSS Feed My first post about this open source OWASP project was about an older version. This post discusses the changes made to the open source software composition analysis utility in the latest release yesterday. This is the OWASP Dependency-Check 3.1.0! This release comes with...

UPDATE: WordPress Exploit Framework v1.8!

PenTestIT RSS Feed Good news guys! We now have the WordPress Exploit Framework v1.8 amongst us! This new version fixes API compatibility with a shell upload module, updates multiple dependencies, introduces multiple API changes and adds multiple new modules and payloads! WordPress Exploit Framewo...

UPDATE: Kali Linux 2017.3 Release!

PenTestIT RSS Feed After a long hiatus, it's good to be back and posting about the latest Kali Linux 2017.3 release! The last Kali Linux release was made available a couple of months ago. Presumably, this new release includes all patches, fixes, updates, and improvements since the last release...

FruityWifi: An Open Source Wireless Network Auditor

PenTestIT RSS Feed Continuing with my current interest with Raspberry Pi based security tools again. My last post was about P4wnP1. This post is about FruityWiFi an open source tool that helps you with wireless network auditing. What is FruityWifi? FruityWifi is an open source tool based on WiFi...