7MS #502: Building a Pentest Lab in Azure

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.

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7MS #676: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 72

7MS #676: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 72

Today’s fun tale of pentest pwnage discuss an attack path that would, in my opinion, probably be impossible to detect…until it’s too late.

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7MS #675: Pentesting GOAD – Part 2

7MS #675: Pentesting GOAD – Part 2

Hey friends! Today Joe “The Machine” Skeen and I tackled GOAD (Game of Active Directory) again – this time covering: SQL link abuse between two domains Forging inter-realm TGTs to conquer the coveted sevenkingdoms.local! Join us next month when we aim to overtake essos.local, which will make us rulers over all realms!

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7MS #674: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 71

7MS #674: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 71

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7MS #673: ProxmoxRox

7MS #673: ProxmoxRox

Today we’re excited to release ProxmoxRox – a repo of info and scripts to help you quickly spin up Ubuntu and Windows VMs.  Also, some important news items: 7MinSec.club in-person meeting is happening Wednesday, May 14!  More details here. We did our second Tuesday TOOLSday this week and showed you some local privesc techniques when you have local admin on an endpoint

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7MS #672: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 70

7MS #672: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 70

Today’s a fun tale of pentest pwnage where we leveraged a WinRM service ticket in combination with the shadow credentials attack, then connected to an important system using evil-winrm and make our getaway with some privileged Kerberos TGTs!  I also share an (intentionally) vague story about a personal struggle I could use your thoughts/prayers/vibes with.

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7MS #671: Pentesting GOAD

7MS #671: Pentesting GOAD

Hello! This week Joe “The Machine” Skeen and I kicked off a series all about pentesting GOAD (Game of Active Directory).  In part one we covered: Checking for null session enumeration on domain controllers Enumerating systems with and without SMB signing Scraping AD user account descriptions Capturing hashes using Responder Cracking hashes with Hashcat

18 Apr 25min

7MS #670: Adventures in Self-Hosting Security Services

7MS #670: Adventures in Self-Hosting Security Services

Hi friends, today I’m kicking off a series talking about the good/bad/ugly of hosting security services. Today I talk specifically about transfer.zip. By self-hosting your own instance of transfer.zip, you can send and receive HUGE files that are end-to-end encrypted using WebRTC.  Sweet!  I also supplemented today’s episode with a short live video over at 7MinSec.club.

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7MS #669: What I’m Working on This Week – Part 3

7MS #669: What I’m Working on This Week – Part 3

Hi friends, in this edition of what I’m working on this week: 3 pulse-pounding pentests that had…problems Something I’m calling the unshadow/reshadow credentials attack Heads-up on a new video experiment I’m going to try next week

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