Dailydave: Re: HITB trip report

["I)ruid" <druid () caughq org>]

On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 14:21 -0400, Dave Aitel wrote:
> STIF-ware Evolution
> Meder Kydyraliev
> and Fyoder Yarochkin
>
> This was a good talk in many ways, but the technology isn't advanced 
> enough to really give the demo the wow-effect that some people want to 
> see. The basic idea is they've wrapped all the security tools you'd want 
> (nmap, nessus, etc) with xml wrappers, and each of them can then use a 
> framework to trigger off the others. So for example, you can give it a 
> list of hosts, and it calls "add ip BLAH" and then you have say, a 
> scanner module waiting for new IP notifications, and it reports "VULN 
> blah" and then a module waiting for that runs and gets you root.
>
> Of course, the devil is in the details. This sort of system is going to 
> be hard to make efficient.
Hrm... this sounds almost exactly (in regards to function, not
implementation) like a tool I wrote back circa '97 called "HackIt!"[1].
Glad to see someone other than my unmotivated ass is getting around to
doing something with the idea...  Mine wasn't XML though, it was a
collection of scripts and exploits written in varying languages all tied
together by a management app that implemented a process like what you
describe the XML as doing above.  Each script or exploit was categorized
into phases of the process and either modified or wrapped to take a
standardly formatted input from the previous phase and produce
standardly formatted output for the next phase (or log final results if
there was none).  And you're right, it was horribly, horribly
inefficient.  But it was automated!  It could h4x0r the gibson (is that
the phrase all the kids are using nowdays?) 24/7, while I slept, lounged
around the pool sipping drinks, etc.  Er, all within the confines of my
physically isolated test lab of course (:  Now I'll have to see if I
still have a copy of that code...

> At udrw.com you can get a USB key that pretends its a cdrom. This is 
> great for autorun, apparently.
Well isn't this little device becoming the hot item all of a sudden.
This is the third time I've heard about this in the past month or so...

[1]
http://web.archive.org/web/19990128091212/http://www.caughq.org/cgi-bin/CAU/hackit (go wayback machine!)

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