I AUTOMATED a Penetration Test!?
Source: YouTube · John Hammond · published Feb 15, 2024 · 17:26
The video demonstrates a manual penetration test on a vulnerable target before showcasing "Pentest Tools," a platform designed to automate the tedious boilerplate steps of security assessments 0:00.
Key Takeaways:
• The presenter begins by enumerating ports and identifying a vulnerable web application on Port 81, manually exploiting Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and SQL Injection vulnerabilities 1:22.
• The target reveals itself as Pentest Ground, a sandbox of intentionally vulnerable applications intended for practice and testing standard hacking protocols 6:46.
• Pentest Tools.com centralizes the repetitive processes of penetration testing, such as reconnaissance, vulnerability scanning, and report writing, to streamline the workflow 9:01.
• The platform's automated scanners rapidly identify high-risk findings including SQL injection, Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF), insecure cookies, and Python code injection 11:10.
• The "Sniper" auto-exploiter successfully leveraged a known CVE against a Redis instance to achieve Remote Code Execution (RCE) as root, validating exploits automatically 15:18.
Pentest Tools supplements human expertise by handling the monotonous parts of an engagement, allowing security professionals to focus on the custom and creative aspects of penetration testing 17:01.
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say I'm performing a penetration test I'm inside my Cali Linux virtual machine and I am up against a Target called royal security.com so I could do all the normal stuff that we start with all the usual boilerplate repetitive processes to begin enumeration or reconnaissance and we can start with an end map scan to look for open ports and services and when the results come back it's a bit interesting hey we see there's Port 80 for HTTP just a classic website we also have 81 odd different strange not usually 80 that we're used to seeing https on Port 443 70001 9,000 so odd stuff that we could go interrogate honestly I'm more interested in Port 81 cuz that seems pretty out of place now I can open this up in my web browser and here we are at Royal security.com on Port 81 claiming we are best Se…