7MS #502: Building a Pentest Lab in Azure
7 Minute Security5 Tammi 2022

7MS #502: Building a Pentest Lab in Azure

Happy new year friends! Today I share the good, bad, ugly, and BROKEN things I've come across while migrating our Light Pentest LITE training lab from on-prem VMware ESXi to Azure. It has been a fun and frustrating process, but my hope is that some of the tips in today's episode will save you some time/headaches/money should you setup a pentesting training camp in the cloud.

Things I like

  • No longer relying on a single point of failure (Intel NUC, switch, ISP, etc.)

  • You can schedule VMs to auto-shutdown at a certain time each day, and even have Azure send you a notification before the shutdown so you can delay - or suspend altogether - the operation

Things I don't like

  • VMs are by default (I believe) joined to Azure AD, which I don't want. Here's how I got machines unjoined from Azure AD and then joined to my pwn.town domain:
dsregcmd /leave Add-Computer -DomainName pwn.town -Restart
  • Accidentally provision a VM in the wrong subnet? The fix may be rebuilding the flippin' VM (more info in today's episode).

  • Just about every operation takes for freakin' ever. And it's confusing because if you delete objects out of the portal, sometimes they don't actually disappear from the GUI for like 5-30 minutes.

  • Using backups and snapshots is archaic. You can take a snapshot in the GUI or PowerShell easy-peasy, but if you actually want to restore those snapshots you have to convert them to managed disks, then detach a VM's existing disk, and attach the freshly converted managed disks. This is a nightmare to do with PowerShell.

  • Deleting data is a headache. I understand Azure is probably trying to protect you against deleting stuff and not being able to get it back, but they night a right-click > "I know what I'm doing, DELETE THIS NOW" option. Otherwise you can end up in situations where in order to delete data, you have to disable soft delete, undelete deleted data, then re-delete it to actually make it go away. WTH, you say? This doc will help it make more sense (or not).

Things that are broken

  • Promiscuous mode - just plain does not work as far as I can tell. So I can't do protocol poisoning exercises with something like Inveigh.

  • Hashcat - I got CPU-based cracking working in ESXi by installing OpenCL drivers, but try as I may, I cannot get this working in Azure. I even submitted an issue to the hashcat forums but so far no replies.

On a personal note, it has been good knowing you because I'm about to spend all my money on a new hobby: indoor skydiving.

Jaksot(703)

7MS #663: Pentesting GOAD SCCM

7MS #663: Pentesting GOAD SCCM

Today we live-hack an SCCM server via GOAD SCCM using some attack guidance from Misconfiguration Manager!  Attacks include: Unauthenticated PXE attack PXE (with password) attack Relaying the machine account of the MECM box over to the SQL server to get local admin

21 Helmi 29min

7MS #662: Pentesting Potatoes - Part 2

7MS #662: Pentesting Potatoes - Part 2

Hi friends, today we're talking about pentesting potatoes (not really, but this episode is sort of a homage to episode 333 where I went to Boise to do a controls assessment and ended up doing an impromptu physical pentest and social engineer exercise).  I talk about what a blast I'm having hunting APTs in XINTRA LABS, and two cool tools I'm building with the help of Cursor: A wrapper for Netexec that quickly finds roastable users, machines without SMB signing, clients running Webclient and more. A sifter of Snaffler-captured files to zero in even closer on interesting things such as usernames and passwords in clear text.

14 Helmi 37min

7MS #661: Baby's First Hetzner and Ludus – Part 2

7MS #661: Baby's First Hetzner and Ludus – Part 2

Today we continue our journey from last week where we spun up a Hetzner cloud server and Ludus.cloud SCCM pentesting range! Topics include: Building a Proxmox Backup Server (this YouTube video was super helpful) Bridging a second WAN IP to the Hetzner/Ludus server Wrestling with the Hetzner (10-rule limit!) software firewall When attacking SCCM – you can get a version of pxethief that runs in Linux!

8 Helmi 37min

7MS #660: Baby's First Hetzner and Ludus

7MS #660: Baby's First Hetzner and Ludus

I had an absolute ball this week spinning up my first Hetzner server, though it was not without some drama (firewall config frustrations and failing hard drives). Once I got past that, though, I got my first taste of the amazing world of Ludus.cloud, where I spun up a vulnerable Microsoft SCCM lab and have started to pwn it. Can't say enough good things about Ludus.cloud, but I certainly tried in this episode!

1 Helmi 34min

7MS #659: Eating the Security Dog Food - Part 8

7MS #659: Eating the Security Dog Food - Part 8

Today I'm excited about some tools/automation I've been working on to help shore up the 7MinSec security program, including: Using Retype as a document repository Leveraging the Nessus API to automate the downloading/correlating of scan data Monitoring markdown files for "last update" changes using a basic Python script

24 Tammi 28min

7MS #658: WPA3 Downgrade Attacks

7MS #658: WPA3 Downgrade Attacks

Hey friends, today we cover: The shiny new 7MinSec Club BPATTY updates A talk-through of the WPA3 downgrade attack, complemented by the YouTube livestream

17 Tammi 32min

7MS #657: Writing Rad Security Documentation with Retype

7MS #657: Writing Rad Security Documentation with Retype

Hello friends! Today we're talking about a neat and quick-to-setup documentation service called Retype. In a nutshell, you can get Retype installed on GitHub pages in about 5 minutes and be writing beautiful markdown pages (with built-in search) immediately. I still absolutely love Docusaurus, but I think Retype definitely gives it a run for its money.

10 Tammi 20min

7MS #656: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying - Part 21

7MS #656: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying - Part 21

Happy new year friends! Today we talk about business/personal resolutions, including: New year's resolution on the 7MinSec biz side to have a better work/life balance New training offering in the works Considering Substack as a communications platform A mental health booster that I came across mostly by accident

3 Tammi 45min

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