Hacking by Pratyush Gupta

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What is Hacking?
Hacking is a term used to refer to activities aimed
at exploiting security flaws to obtain critical
information for gaining access to secured
networks.

A Brief History of Hacking
• 1980s
- Cyberspace coined
-414 arrested
-Two hacker groups formed
-2600 published
• 1990s
-National Crackdown on hackers
-Kevin Mitnick arrested
-Microsoft’s NT operating system infiltrated

A Brief History of Hacking
• 2001
– In one of the biggest denial-of-service attack, hackers launched
attacks against eBay, Yahoo!, CNN.com., Amazon and others.
• 2007
– Bank hit by “biggest ever” hack. Swedish Bank, Nordea recorded
nearly $1 Million has been stolen in three months from 250 customer
account.

Famous Hackers in History
Ian Murphy Kevin Mitnick Johan Helsinguis
Linus Torvalds Mark Abene Robert Morris

The Hacker Attitude
 Boredom and drudgery are evil.
Hackers (and creative people in general) should never be bored or have to
drudge at stupid repetitive work
 Freedom is good
Hackers are naturally anti-authoritarian. Anyone who can give you orders can
stop you from solving whatever problem you're being fascinated by
 Becoming a hacker will take intelligence, practice, dedication, and hard work.

Basic Hacking Skills
 Learn how to program.
This, of course, is the fundamental hacking skill. If you don't know any computer
languages, you cant do hacking.
 Get one of the open-source Unix's and learn to use and run it
The single most important step any newbie can take towards acquiring hacker
skills is to get a copy of Linux or one of the BSD-Unix’s, install it on a personal
machine, and run it.
 Learn how to use the World Wide Web and write HTML.
To be worthwhile, your page must have content -- it must be interesting and/or
useful to other hackers.

Preparation For Hacking
 When you start hacking the first thing you need to do is: to make sure
the victim will not find out your real identity.
 So hide your IP by masking it or using a anonymous proxy server. This
is only effective when the victim has no knowledge about computers
and internet. Organizations like the F.B.I, C.I.A and such will find you in
no time, so beware !
 The best thing to do is using a dialup connection that has a variable IP
address. Be smart, when you signup for a internet dialup connection
use a fake name and address.
 When hacking never leave traces of your hacking attempts, clear log
files and make sure you are not monitored. So use a good firewall that
keeps out retaliation hacking attempts of your victim.

IP Addresses
 Every system connected to a network has a unique Internet Protocol (IP)
Address which acts as its identity on that network.
 An IP Address is a 32-bit address which is divided into four fields of 8-bits
each. For Example, 203.94.35.12
 All data sent or received by a system will be addressed from or to the
system.
 An attacker’s first step is to find out the IP Address of the target system.

IP Addresses: Finding out an IP Address
 A remote IP Address can easily be found out by any of the following
methods:
Through Instant Messaging Software
Through Internet Relay Chat
Through Your website

Finding an IP Address via Instant Messengers
If you are chatting on messengers like MSN, YAHOO etc. then the
following indirect connection exists between your system and your friend’s
system:
Your System------Chat Server---- Friend’s System
Friend’s System---------Chat Server------- Your System
Thus in this case, you first have to establish a direct connection with
your friend’s computer by either sending him a file or by using the call
feature.
Then, goto MSDOS or the command line and type:
C:>netstat -n
This command will give you the IP Address of your friend’s computer.

Finding an IP Address via Instant Messengers
Countermeasures
Do not accept File transfers or calls from unknown people
Chat online only after logging on through a Proxy Server.
A Proxy Server acts as a buffer between you and the un-trusted network
known as the Internet, to protecting your identity.
Case: Your System-----Proxy------Chat Server------Friend’s System
Some good Proxy Servers are:
Wingate (For Windows Platform)
Squid (For Unix Platforms)

Finding an IP Address via your website
 One can easily log the IP Addresses of all visitors to their website by
using simply JAVA applets or JavaScript code.
Countermeasures
 One should surf the Internet through a Proxy Server.
 One can also make use of the many Free Anonymous Surfing Proxy
Services.
For Example, www.anonymizer.com

IP Addresses: Dangers & Concerns
Dangers & Concerns
 DOS Attacks
 Disconnect from the Internet
 Trojans Exploitation
 Geographical Information
 File Sharing Exploits

TYPES OF HACKING

Various Types of Attacks
There are an endless number of attacks, which a system
administrator has to protect his system from. However, the most
common ones are:
 Denial of Services attacks (DOS Attacks)
 Threat from Sniffing and Key Logging
 Trojan Attacks
 IP Spoofing
 Buffer Overflows

Denial of Services (DOS) Attacks
DOS Attacks are aimed at denying valid, legitimate Internet and Network
users access to the services offered by the target system.
In other words, a DOS attack is one in which you clog up so much
memory on the target system that it cannot serve legitimate users.
There are many types of Denial of Services Attacks or DOS Attacks.

DOS Attacks: Ping of Death Attack
The maximum packet size allowed to be transmitted by TCPIP on a
network is 65 536 bytes.
In the Ping of Death Attack, a packet having a size greater than this
maximum size allowed by TCPIP, is sent to the target system.
As soon as the target system receives a packet exceeding the allowable
size, then it crashes, reboots or hangs.
This attack can easily be executed by the ‘ping’ command as follows:
ping -l 65540 hostname

DOS Attacks: SMURF Attacks
 In SMURF Attacks, a huge number of Ping Requests are sent to the
Target system, using Spoofed IP Addresses from within the target
network.
 Due to infinite loops thus generated and due to the large number of
Ping Requests, the target system will crash, restart or hang up.

Threats from Sniffers and Key Loggers
 Sniffers: capture all data packets being sent across the network in the raw
form.
Commonly Used for:
 Traffic Monitoring
 Network Trouble shooting
 Gathering Information on Attacker.
 For stealing company Secrets and sensitive data.
 Commonly Available Sniffers
 tcpdump
 Ethereal
 Dsniff

Threats from Key Loggers
 Key loggers: Record all keystrokes made on that system and store
them in a log file, which can later automatically be emailed to the
attacker.
 Countermeasures
 Periodic Detection practices should be made mandatory.
A Typical Key Logger automatically loads itself into the memory,
each time the computer boots.
 Thus, the start up script of the Key Logger should be removed.

Trojan Attacks
 Trojans: act as a RAT or Remote Administration Tool, which allow
remote control and remote access to the attacker.
Working:
1. The Server Part of the Trojan is installed on the target system
through trickery or disguise.
2. This server part listens on a predefined port for connections.
3. The attacker connects to this Server Part using the Client part of
the Trojan on the predefined port number.
4. Once this is done, the attacker has complete control over the
target system.

Trojan Attacks: Detection and Countermeasures
 Detection & Countermeasures
 Port Scan your own system regularly.
 If you find a irregular port open, on which you usually do not have
a service running, then your system might have a Trojan installed.
 One can remove a Trojan using any normal Anti-Virus Software.

INTERNET APPLICATION SECURITY

Internet Application Hacking Statistics
• WHID (Web Hacking Incident Database) annual report for 2012 67% percent
of the attacks in 2012 were "for profit" motivated. And it targeted the Web-
Applications.
• Acunetix, a leading vendor of web application security solutions, revealed
that on average 70% of websites are at serious and immediate risk of being
hacked. Every 1500 lines of code has one security vulnerability. (IBM LABS)
• Most popular attacks are against web server ( incident.org)
• 3 out of 4 websites are Vulnerable to attack. (Gartner Report)

General Hacking Methods
A typical attacker works in the following manner:
1. Identify the target system.
2. Gathering Information on the target system.
3. Finding a possible loophole in the target system.
4. Exploiting this loophole using exploit code.
5. Removing all traces from the log files and escaping without a
trace.

Why Vulnerable?
• Poor Web Application coding
• Insecure deployment of web application
• Insufficient input validation
• No web traffic filtering
• Web application attributes are not guarded
well.

(Hacking Techniques)
• Brute Force
A Brute Force attack is an automated process of trial and error used
to guess a person's username, password, credit-card number or
cryptographic key
 Cross-site Scripting
Cross-site Scripting (XSS) is an attack technique that forces a web site
to echo attacker-supplied executable code, which loads in a user's
browser.
 SQL Injection
SQL Injection is an attack technique used to exploit web sites that
construct SQL statements from user-supplied input.
 XPath Injection
XPath Injection is an attack technique used to exploit web sites that
construct XPath queries from user-supplied input.

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