RE: CORE-Impact license bypass

["Josh Perrymon" <perrymonj () networkarmor com>]

I just think that too many consultants are relying on automated tools to
do their job.  Don't get me wrong...  I use them on every project-

Nmap
Nessus
AMAP
MetaSploit
HPING2
VomiT
Acunetix
Etc.................

For me I use the tools to help spot a vulnerable system then exploit the
system using Metasploit or with a known safe exploit I have collected.

I just don't know if I could pay 15k to have access to exploits.

-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Maiffret [mailto:mmaiffret () eeye com] 
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 4:50 PM
To: Exibar; c0ntex; Josh Perrymon; full-disclosure () lists grok org uk
Subject: RE: [Full-disclosure] CORE-Impact license bypass
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<snip>
>   As far as automated tools go, bah, manually exploiting the 
> holes is certainly the way to go.  But, the automated tools 
> usually produce nice pretty reports that you can show the 
> client.  They just LOOOOOVVVVVEEEEEE pretty reports with many 
> bright colors and such for the good stuff and dark "hacker 
> like" colors for the bad stuff :-)
>
>   Exibar

Why is manually exploiting holes the way to go? More so what do you mean
by manually? Writing the exploit yourself? (Few consultants can do that,
and even fewer can do that good). So maybe manually means downloading
hax0rw4ng495's exploit off bugtraq and using that? Or?

So I am curious what was the last SMB/RPC exploit that you saw that took
advantage of SMB/RPC fragmentation for stealth purposes of evading
IDS/IPS systems? I cant think of any that have done that but I can think
of an automated exploit system (Canvas) that does just that.

Or when was the last time you saw a good RPC remote exploit that was
able to take advantage of all known attack vectors?
139,445,dynamicport,rpc over http, bla bla bla. But again both of the
automated attack systems (canvas/core) do just that.

I'm playing devils advocate so its not that I completely disagree but I
think for the average consultant (99% of consultants) using an automated
solution like Core/Canvas is going to do far more for them.

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Marc Maiffret
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