It's no secret that phishing is the top attack vector when it comes to external compromise. So when it comes to penetration testing this is a vector that we can not ignore. However, as consultants, we are interacting with different clients and environments almost every week. Much like endpoint protection, there are a multitude of different spam filters and protection controls ... READ MORE
The Basics: SPF and DMARC Records
It is no secret that one of the major attack vectors is phishing. While some of the success of this is due to a lack of user education and awareness, the other side of the coin are missing basic controls. There is no shortage of enterprise level phishing controls out there, Mimecast and Proofpoint for example. However, these are not silver bullets when it comes to protecting ... READ MORE
King Phisher Release 1.12
King Phisher version 1.12 is finally here. One improvement that we are most excited about is King Phisher now utilizes Pipenv to manage it's dependencies. This will greatly improve the stability of the platform moving forward as there won't be any dependency conflicts or bugs from upstream changes. After doing a git fetch and git pull to update King Phisher, you now runsudo ... READ MORE
Fire and Forget: Meterpreter Automation
Throughout the past year I have been conducting routine phishing assessments for a client. For their final test of the year, our point of contact wanted something consequential for those who fell for this phish... Something 'kinetic' if you will. They requested a 'Blue Screen of Death' approach, to which I ultimately opted for a less potentially destructive method. I would send ... READ MORE
CSRF on Anonymous Forms
Using CSRF on Anonymous Forms This article will focus on linking CSRF vulnerabilities with phishing attacks to extend the lifetime of your captured credentials. Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities on anonymous forms are often ignored or overlooked, but when combined with a credential-harvesting phishing campaign it extends the life of your captured credentials. ... READ MORE
Quick Reference: Empire Persistence Modules
During a penetration test you may find yourself in a situation where your foothold in the network is tenuous and you need to establish persistence. Such as when your only foothold is on a workstation, the end of day is quickly approaching, and the user may shutdown their system. In these cases you'll likely have to save something to the hard disk, but what type of persistence ... READ MORE
King Phisher Release 1.9
Today RSM is proud to announce the latest release of our open source Phishing tool King Phisher. This release brings many new features that we hope offer users a much more pleasant experience and facilitate tapping into some of the more customizable potential of King Phisher. The biggest upgrade with King Phisher version 1.9 is that the client's plugin manager got a huge ... READ MORE
Physical Penetration Testing Basics – A Primer
Physical Penetration Testing is an assessment that involves testing physical security controls to see where they might fail. While this can include a number of different activities, including social engineering, many doors and locks are designed to simply slow down an attacker, not completely protect against one. At RSM, we constructed a sample door for demonstration and ... READ MORE
Pentesting Restrictive Environments – Part 2
Putting it all together Note: This blog is part 1/2 of Pentesting Restrictive Environments. I highly recommend reading part 1 if you have not! All of the equipment (and context) mentioned below is outlined in the first blog. After getting all of my Amazon packages, I flashed Kali Linux onto the MicroSD card and plugged it into the ODROID-C2. After getting the OS ... READ MORE
Pentesting Restrictive Environments – Part 1
The Scenario On a recent engagement, the client was focused on testing the controls that were in place within the environment. The client wanted a penetration test conducted as a malicious employee using a heavily restricted, domain joined Windows host. The other caveat is that the client would be actively looking for me and works under a 3 strike system. I want to be clear ... READ MORE