Re: [PEN-TEST] Hard-coded passwords in WINNT directory?

Jonathan Wrathall wrote:
>
> During a test of a client's IIS web server, I've encountered the following
> scenario:
>
> 1. I am able to view files in the WINNT directory using the "MS Index
> Server '%20' ASP Source Disclosure Vulnerability" vulnerability.
>
> 2. I am able to connect to IPC$, and I've used dumpsec to get the userlist
> etc.
>
> 3. The winnt/system32/repair/sam._ file does not appear to be present.
>
> Can anyone suggest other files that might reveal hard-coded passwords, or
> other valuable information?
>

If you have remote registry access, try browsing that. Somarsoft's
'dumpreg' is your friend (http://www.systemtools.com/somarsoft)...

I recently had a major stroke of luck on a system which had VNC
installed; vnc stores its password hash in the registry and the
encryption is reversable, just use 'vncdec.c'.
This vnc password also appeared to be the 'administrator' password ;-)

No doubt other interesting tidbits are stored in the registry. The
question is how much you can access with a null session ofcourse...

Tom.

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