Burp SQLmap plugin for Windows
Burp Suite provides a very basic SDK known as Burp Extender. Burp Extender allows third parties to extend the features of an already powerful web application testing suite. In March of this year, Daniel Garcia (cr0hn) created a SQLmap plugin for Burp using the Burp Extender SDK. With Daniel’s SQLmap plugin, automated SQL injection discovery and exploitation is now seamless between two of our favorite web application pentesting tools.
Multi-Core and Distributed Programming in Python
In the age of big data we often find ourselves facing CPU-intensive data processing tasks, therefore it is useful to understand how to harness all available CPU power to tackle a particular problem. Recently we came across a Python script which was CPU-intensive, but when the analyst viewed their overall CPU usage it was only showing ~25% utilization. This was because the script was only running in a single process, and therefore only fully utilizing a single core. For those of us with a few notches on our belts, this should seem fairly obvious, but I think it is a good exercise and teaching example to talk about the different methods of multi-core/multi-node programming in Python. This isn’t meant to be an all-encompassing tutorial on multi-core and distributed programming, but it should provide an overview of the available approaches in Python.
HTTP/HTTPS Bruteforcing Using a List of IPs and Hostnames with Metasploit
Today, I wrote some automation to make it easier to setup and perform HTTP bruteforcing using a list of IPs and hostnames with Metasploit. Metasploit has several auxiliary modules that make it easy to perform various types of bruteforce based attacks. For example, we can easy bruteforce all HTTP BASIC AUTH systems by using the http_login module.