First November post

Wow, not a single post in November yet? I'll admit to finding it difficult to muster up energy for my usual escapades. The trip to Europe was great, but mostly it made me want to quit and go travel Europe for a few months. Imagine, I've had a sweet Synology NAS since early October and still haven't set up rsync to backup my raspberry pi systems on a regular basis.

My CISSP training was cancelled due to conflicts, but at least I have the CISSP book.

Quick post from NM

Well here I am in Roswell NM, looking at the vast flat expanse of a town at 3571 foot elevation, on what used to be a military air base and is therefore really really big. Dry, pleasant weather (but cold in the evenings.)

Parsing Grepable nmap formats

I was recently tasked with finding a way to output all the IPs and associated open ports found during an engagement. My primary data source was from nmap, so that's what I used.

Here's my method (doubtless to be improved). The tips I got from scripts and files somewhere:

1. cat .gnmap | awk '{printf "%s\t", $2;
      for (i=4;i<=NF;i++) {
        split($i,a,"/");
        if (a[2]=="open") printf ",%s",a[1];}
      print ""}' | sed -e 's/,//' | sed -e 's/\t/ /' > parsed.txt

2. In Excel, either open the parsed.txt file, or in a new sheet, click the "Data" tab, and click "From Text" to open the Text Import Wizard.

3. Choose "Delimited", and click "Next".

4. In the Delimiters section, only "Space" should be checked. Click "Next".

5. Select each Column and click the "Text" radio button. It should look as below.

6. Finish Importing. If using the Text Import Wizard, click OK.

Getting GPS dongle (BU-353S4) working on Raspberry Pi

I followed this guide:

http://blog.boberglund.com/Build_GPSD_from_sources.txt

found on this forum topic: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=138711

but ultimately found something on https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=128045

To run gpsd as daemon:
cat /etc/default/gpsd
START_DAEMON="true"
GPSD_OPTIONS=""
DEVICES="/dev/ttyUSB0"
USBAUTO="false"
GPSD_SOCKET="/var/run/gpsd.sock" this I did not follow, choosing instead to include that when running


 

Building a Raspberry Pi Hacking Box

This has been on my mind for some time now, on and off. The emphasis is almost exclusively on having a lightweight wireless reconnaissance and hacking device, instead of carrying out a laptop with a 2-hour battery life during wireless testing.

The current setup is as follows:

Raspberry Pi 3 Model B (onboard wifi) + heatsinks for CPU and LAN

LiFePO4wered long-life battery backup/UPS: Expensive but worth it. Now the Pi can be moved between locations and plugs without needing to be turned off. It also has a touch-sensitive power button. (Minor downside is that the UPS itself is always in very low power mode.) Actual power will be provided by an external battery pack during engagements, and with the UPS backup it is assured that power loss caused by accidentally removing the battery pack connection doesn't cause wireless data to be lost.

Raspbian: The Kali Linux image for Pi3 has proved to be quite frustrating, as it does not allocate all the space on a 16 GB SD card to itself, instead requiring manual resizing which always fails due to either read-only issues or a fake bad superblock. I tried several times without success, which is unfortunate as having the base Kali install plus the Kali wireless metapackage would be much easier to build.
I also tried to add the Kali repo but ran into issues using the latest version of Raspbian (Stretch) and java dependencies.

Instead I installed Raspbian Jessie and followed the following steps:

1. Sudo raspi-config.
2. Sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get install git screen htop && sudo apt-get install nmap
3. Rather than connecting the pi via a cable to a travel router, or connecting the Pi to a wireless travel router AP and connecting a phone to that same AP, you can make the Pi its own AP with hostapd using this guide: http://www.ericescobar.com/wordpress/raspberry-pi-3-wireless-hacking-platform-wifipi/ and connect to the AP with a phone and SSH connection. Update 10-11-17: The end result was flaky, so I tried https://gist.github.com/Lewiscowles1986/fecd4de0b45b2029c390 which worked perfect on a clean install of Raspbian Jessie.
4. sudo apt-get install kismet iw wireshark tshark tcpdump masscan wifite
5. Install giskismet (which failed, but here are the steps):

1. cpan configuration
2. sudo reboot
3. cpan install YAML
4. cpan install DBI (like to do the packages separately)
5. cpan install DBD::SQLite
6. sudo apt-get install libxml++2.6-2
    

6. Install Fruitywifi, then access it on the phone and install some modules, such as GPSD to work with kismet.
7. Install hax0rpi collection of hacking tools.

Update 10-10-17: This guide from BlackHillsInfosec had the flag that helps Kali take up all the space (in red):

xz -cd kali-2017.01-rpi2.img.xz | dd of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=4M iflag=fullblock oflag=direct status=progress

Once that was done, it was possible to successfully use gparted to resize the partition, without losing any data from the fresh install.