7MS #502: Building a Pentest Lab in Azure
7 Minute Security5 Tammi 2022

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.

Jaksot(689)

7MS #658: WPA3 Downgrade Attacks

7MS #658: WPA3 Downgrade Attacks

Hey friends, today we cover: The shiny new 7MinSec Club BPATTY updates A talk-through of the WPA3 downgrade attack, complemented by the YouTube livestream

17 Tammi 32min

7MS #657: Writing Rad Security Documentation with Retype

7MS #657: Writing Rad Security Documentation with Retype

Hello friends!  Today we’re talking about a neat and quick-to-setup documentation service called Retype.  In a nutshell, you can get Retype installed on GitHub pages in about 5 minutes and be writing beautiful markdown pages (with built-in search) immediately.  I still absolutely love Docusaurus, but I think Retype definitely gives it a run for its money.

10 Tammi 20min

7MS #656: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying - Part 21

7MS #656: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying - Part 21

Happy new year friends! Today we talk about business/personal resolutions, including: New year’s resolution on the 7MinSec biz side to have a better work/life balance New training offering in the works Considering Substack as a communications platform A mental health booster that I came across mostly by accident

3 Tammi 45min

7MS #655: Happy Hacking Holidays

7MS #655: Happy Hacking Holidays

Today we’re doing a milkshake of several topics: wireless pentest pwnage, automating the boring pentest stuff with cursor.ai, and some closing business thoughts at 7MinSec celebrates its 7th year as a security consultancy.  Links discussed today: AWUS036ACH wifi card (not my favorite anymore) Panda PAU09 N600 (love this one!) The very important Github issue that helped me better understand BPFs and WPA3 attacks TrustedSec article on WPA3 downgrade attacks

30 Joulu 202458min

7MS #654: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 67

7MS #654: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 67

Today we’ve got some super cool stuff to cover today!  First up, BPATTY v1.4 is out and has a slug of cool things: A whole new section on old-school wifi tools like airmon-ng, aireplay-ng and airodump-ng Syntax on using two different tools to parse creds from Dehashed An updated tutorial on using Gophish for phishing campaigns The cocoa-flavored cherry on top is a tale of pentest pwnage that includes: Abusing SCCM Finding gold in SQL configuration/security audits

13 Joulu 202441min

7MS #653: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying – Part 20

7MS #653: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying – Part 20

Hey friends, today we’re talking about tips to effectively present your technical assessment to a variety of audiences – from lovely IT and security nerds to C-levels, the board and beyond!

6 Joulu 202449min

7MS #652: Securing Your Mental Health - Part 6

7MS #652: Securing Your Mental Health - Part 6

Today’s episode talks about some things that helped me get through a stressful and hospital-visit-filled Thanksgiving week, including: Journaling Meditation (An activity I’m ashamed of but has actually done wonders for my mental health)

2 Joulu 202441min

7MS #651: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 66

7MS #651: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 66

Hey friends, we’ve got a short but sweet tale of pentest pwnage for you today. Key lessons learned: Definitely consider BallisKit for your EDR-evasion needs If you get local admin to a box, enumerate, enumerate, enumerate!  There might be a delicious task or service set to run as a domain admin that can quickly escalate your privileges!

22 Marras 202431min

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