Re: Social Engineering - information disclosing by phone

[jc <antihacker.jc () gmail com>]

On Dec 24, 2008, at 12:34 PM, Taras P. Ivashchenko wrote:

> Hello, list!
>
> What do you thing about such step of pentest as information  
> disclosing by phone?
> Yes, of course everybody watched "Hackers" with Jolie

What red-blooded male mammal could forget Jolie?  Seriously now?   
While I can't speak
for anyone else, I do know that my body aches to make child's with  
her...

> and Miller and remember moment
> when when some security officer told number of modem by telephone.
> But it's cinema and what about real life?

In real life, you get the girl who lives with a lot of cats.

> In Penetration Testing Framework [1] we can read:
> Scenarios
> IT Department.
> "Hi, it's Zoe from the helpdesk. I am doing a security audit of the  
> network
> and I need to re-synchronise the Active Directory usernames and  
> passwords.
> This is so that your logon process in the morning receives no undue  
> delays"
> If you are calling from a mobile number, explain that the helpdesk  
> has been
> issued a mobile phone for 'on call' personnel.

Remember, less is more.  The more explaining you have to do, the  
greater propensity
to screw it up.  Why not take the phn # out of the equation by  
spoofing the caller ID?  On
sanctioned, Full-Oink SE tests, this is but one of the many tools in  
my black bag.
> Results
>
> Contact Details
> - Name
> - Phone number
> - Email
> - Room number
> - Department
> - Role

Don't forget to do DD before the test, like simple ref. search for  
people in the org.  Find
out their corp. email naming convention...Exchange usually uses one  
kind, etc.  Fire off some
earnest emails, but use a service like ReadNotify (or roll-ur-own with  
self-code) to
garner info about their internal ntwk. structure, who they passed the  
message to,
how long they read it, etc...

> [1] http://www.vulnerabilityassessment.co.uk/Penetration Test.html
>
> What in your opinion we can take (in pentest) from such method of  
> S.E.?

It's one of many methods. It usually doesn't work like the movies,  
i.e., unless the target has less
brain power than, let's say, a school of plankton.  Or Sea-Monkey's!   
Sea Monkey's!
> Does anybody knows Mitnick here? Please, call him =)

Yeah, I'd like to know too, he still owes me $25 from 1985.

-jc

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