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NACUSAC - 2018Louisville, KY

How to Steal a Billion Dollars

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WEALTH ADVISORY | OUTSOURCING | AUDIT, TAX, AND CONSULTINGWEALTH ADVISORY | OUTSOURCING | AUDIT, TAX, AND CONSULTING 2

Outline

• Introductions– Presenter

– Presentation format

– Cyber Kill Chain example

• Anatomy of an Attack– External Recon

– Weaponization

– Delivery

– Exploitation

– Internal Network Recon

– Command and Control

– Capture the flag

– Exfiltration

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WEALTH ADVISORY | OUTSOURCING | AUDIT, TAX, AND CONSULTING

The Attacker

• David AndersonManager, CliftonLarsonAllen

• OSCP – Offensive Security Certified Professional

• BS – Information Technology – Minnesota State University Mankato

• Oversee and participate in:

– Penetration Testing

– Social Engineering

– Vulnerability Assessments

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The Defenders

• Your IS/IT department

• Your employees

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Anatomy of an Attack

• How do attackers work?

• What defenses are effective?

• How do I evaluate my own security needs?

• How can I spend my money efficiently?

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CyberKill Chain

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External Recon

Weaponization

Delivery

Command Control

Capture the Flag

Exploitation Exfiltration

Internal Network Recon

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External Recon

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CyberKill Chain

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External Recon

Weaponization

Delivery

Command Control

Capture the Flag



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External Recon

• Port and Service enumeration

• Shodan

• OSINT

– Social Media

– Staff

– Customers

– webapps

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Service Enumeration

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Shodan

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LinkedIn

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Website

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External Recon

• Documentation

– Network map◊ Data flow

– IP range

– External access provided to staff

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External Recon

• OSINT– Social Media

◊ Staff

◊ Blogs / News

– Internet accessible documents

• Shodan

• Self Assessments– Google Alerts

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External Recon

• Security Assessments

– Validation◊ Is it as secure as we think or expect?

– Assurance◊ Prove it to others it is as good as we say it is.

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WEAPONIZATION

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CyberKill Chain

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External Recon

Weaponization

Delivery

Command Control

Capture the Flag



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Weaponization

• Exploit announcements

• Exploit research

• Creation of an exploit or attack vector

• Purchase an exploit

• Payload creation

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Weaponization

• Open Source Weaponization Tools

– Metasploit

– Empire

– Kodiac

– Veil

– Etc…

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Weaponization

• Understand current environment

– Center for Internet Security – Controls 1 and 2

– Sign up for vendor bulletins and review

• IT Security Awareness training

• Mitigate Gaps

• Ongoing training on new technology

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Delivery

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CyberKill Chain

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External Recon

Weaponization

Delivery

Command Control

Capture the Flag



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Delivery

• Social Engineering

– Phishing

– Email spoofing

– Call spoofing

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Phishing Website

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Phishing Website

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Phishing Website

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Poor Email Filtering

Connected to mail.cogentco.com (38.9.X.X).

MAIL FROM: <[email protected]>

250 OK

RCPT TO: <[email protected]>

250 Accepted

DATA

354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself

FROM: <[email protected]>

TO: <[email protected]>

Subject: Free Tesla Car

SMTP Envelope

SMTP Message

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Delivery

• Phone Calls

• [Audio Sample]

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Delivery

• In Person

– RFID clone

– Media drops

– Tailgating

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Not this tailgating…

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Delivery

• Security Awareness Training

• Mail Security Controls

• Security Assessments of email system

– Cloud

– OWA

– Endpoint

• Spam Filters

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Exploitation

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CyberKill Chain

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External Recon

Weaponization

Delivery

Command Control

Capture the Flag



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Exploitation

• Missing patches

– MS17-010 (WannaCry / ETERNALBLUE)

• End user

– Malicious Office documents (Macros, OLE, etc.)

– HTML Applications (.HTA)

• Windows PowerShell

– Can inject malicious code straight into memory

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PowerShell

Malicious Macro

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ETERNALBLUE

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ETERNALBLUE

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Exploitation

• Patch management– Simplify support

– Mitigation

• Security Policy– Least Privilege

– Layered Defense

– Secure by Design

– Assume Breach

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Exploitation

Security Baseline– “Golden Image”

– Group Policy

– Benchmarks◊ CIS

◊ NIST

◊ STIGS

◊ USGCB

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Exploitation

• Application whitelisting– AppLocker

– Windows Device Guard

• Protect Office Applications– Block Macros

– Windows Defender Exploit Guard

• Prevent script files from auto-executing– Change default application of file extensions: .hta, .js, .bat, etc…

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Exploitation

• Tools– Sysinternals suite

– LAPS

– Sysmon◊ IR focused configuration

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Exploitation

• Network Monitoring

– User level

– Temporal

– Attempts

– Behavior

• Segmentation

– Block endpoint SMB

– Guest Wi-Fi

– IoT

– Secure transactions

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CyberKill Chain

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External Recon

Weaponization

Delivery

Command Control

Capture the Flag



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• Where am I?– ipconfig /all

• Who am I?– whoami

• What privileges do I have?– whoami /groups

• Do I have local admin rights?– net localgroup administrators

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• Who is on the network?– netstat

– Port scans

– DNS enumeration

– AD enumeration

• Who are the administrators?– BloodHound

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• Default/easily guessable passwords

• Misconfiguration

• Missing patches

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• Secure Network– Network Segmentation

– BLOCK workstation to workstation communication

• Network Monitoring– Netflow

– Endpoint logs

– “user” behavior

– Sensor alerts

– Log analysis

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• Security Policy– Least Privilege

– Assume Breach

• Encryption– At-rest

– In Transit

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PowerShell Security

• Upgrade to PowerShell v5

• Remove PowerShell v2

• Enable Script Block Logging

• Enable Script Transcription

• OPTIONAL: Configure Constrained Language Mode– Prevents advanced features, such as .NET execution, Windows API

calls, and COM access

– This may cause issues with managing systems with PowerShell

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External Recon

Weaponization

Delivery

Command Control

Capture the Flag



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Command and Control

• Remote access tool– Stabilize connection

– Persistence

• Communication– Encrypted

– Mimic “real” network traffic (HTTPS / DNS)

• Operational Security

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Command and Control

• Network Monitoring

– Bandwidth, traffic patterns, IP geolocation

• Threat Intelligence

– Internal◊ SEIM, Next-gen Firewalls

– External feeds◊ Industry – Microsoft, Google, Cisco, HP, etc

◊ STIX, TAXII, CybOX

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CyberKill Chain

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External Recon

Weaponization

Delivery

Command Control

Capture the Flag



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Capture the Flag

• Asset Identification

• Asset Acquisition

– Open file shares are a goldmine

– AIRES files

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Capture the Flag

• Admin Creds

– SQL creds in web.config files

– Cloud (e.g. Office 365)

• Open File Shares

• Insecure databases

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Capture the Flag

• Network Map

– “Treasure map”

• Encryption

– “at rest” encryption

• Logging

– SQL access

– File access

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External Recon

Weaponization

Delivery

Command Control

Capture the Flag



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Exfiltration

• Collection point

• Package it up– Compress

– Encrypt

• Send it out– FTP, SSH, HTTP(S), ICMP, DNS, etc…

– We use whatever you allow outbound

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Exfiltration

• Network Monitoring– Bandwidth

– Egress traffic

• Firewall Rules

• Threat Intelligence– Blacklists

– Geo location of IP

– Real-time analysis

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Summary

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External Recon

Weaponization

Delivery

Exploitation


Command Control

Capture the Flag

Exfiltration

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Thank you!

David Anderson612-397-3132

david.anderson @CLAconnect.com

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