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(683)

7MS #154: Friday Infosec News and Links Roundup

7MS #154: Friday Infosec News and Links Roundup

Episode show notes are here: https://7ms.us/7ms-154-friday-infosec-news-and-links-roundup/.

12 Helmi 201613min

7MS #153: OFF-TOPIC - Ex Machina (and special musical guest)

7MS #153: OFF-TOPIC - Ex Machina (and special musical guest)

Today's episode is a movie review of Ex Machina (how the FRICK do you pronounce that?) and closes out with special musical guest, Sweet Surrender!

10 Helmi 201611min

7MS #152: Review of the Almond 2015 Wireless Router

7MS #152: Review of the Almond 2015 Wireless Router

This is a mini-review of the Almond 2015 router by Securifi. This is NOT a paid advertisement or endorsement. I just happen to REALLY like this little router.

8 Helmi 201610min

7MS #151: Friday Infosec News and Links Roundup

7MS #151: Friday Infosec News and Links Roundup

Here are some of my favorite stories and links for this week! Training opportunities NMAP course from Udemy - $24 for a limited time (I think) How to handle the the thoughtless compliance zombie hordes - by BHIS is coming up Tuesday February 16th from 2-3 ET. The price is free! Pivot Project touts itself as "a portfolio of interesting, practical, enlightening, and often challenging hands-on exercises for people who are trying to improve their mastery of important cybersecurity skills. News It is absurdly easy for attackers to destroy your Web site in 10 minutes. Secure your home network better using advice from the SANS Ouch! newsletter. Chromodo (part of Comodo's Internet Security)disables same-origin policy which basically disables Web security. Wha?! Virus total now looks at firmware images as well. We can soon wave goodbye to Java in the browser forever!. Kinda. Tools Here's a nice SSL/TLS-checking checklist for pentesters. Kali is moving to a rolling release configuration pretty soon. Update yours before April 15!

5 Helmi 201611min

7MS #150: OFF-TOPIC-Bone Tomahawk / Goodnight Mommy / Comedy Loves Misery

7MS #150: OFF-TOPIC-Bone Tomahawk / Goodnight Mommy / Comedy Loves Misery

Preview16 wordsIn today's off-topic episode I review the following movies: Bone Tomahawk Goodnight Mommy Misery Loves Comedy

3 Helmi 201610min

7MS #149: Securing Your Life - Part 3

7MS #149: Securing Your Life - Part 3

This episode continues the series on securing your life - making sure all the security stuff related to your life is in order. Today we're particularly focusing on preparing to travel. What if (God forbid) the plane goes down? Who has access to your money, passwords, etc.?

1 Helmi 20168min

7MS #148: OFF-TOPIC - Apple Watch Review

7MS #148: OFF-TOPIC - Apple Watch Review

Yep, there are tons of people/blogs/magazines/children/pets who have provided reviews of the Apple Watch. This is mine.

28 Tammi 20169min

7MS #147: DIY Hosted Mutillidae

7MS #147: DIY Hosted Mutillidae

In this episode I talk about how to build a cheap hosted Mutillidae server to safely hack away on while keeping other Internet prowlers out. Here are the basic commands to run to lock down the Digital Ocean droplet's iptables firewall: *Flush existing rules* **sudo iptables -F** *Allow all concurrent connections* **sudo iptables -A INPUT -m conntrack --ctstate ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT** *Allow specific IPs/hosts to access port 80* **sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s F.Q.D.N --dport 80 -m conntrack --ctstate NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT** *Allow specific IPs/hosts to access port 22* **sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s F.Q.D.N --dport 22 -m conntrack --ctstate NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT** *Block all other traffic:* **sudo iptables -P INPUT DROP** *Provide the VPS loopback access:* **sudo iptables -I INPUT 1 -i lo -j ACCEPT** *Install iptables-persistent to ensure rules survive a reboot:* **sudo apt-get install iptables-persistent** *Start iptables-persistent service* **sudo service iptables-persistent start** *If you make iptables changes after this and they don't seem to stick, do this:* **sudo iptables-save > /etc/iptables/rules.v4** See this Digital Ocean article for more information.

26 Tammi 20168min

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