Nikto&

other tools
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Software Security

Overview

Nikto - short introduction,

Burp Suite,
Wikto,
Nmap,
Metasploit,
Nessus,
OpenVAS,
Useful links.

Nikto - short introduction

You manage several Web servers/applications
Need to find potential problems and security
vulnerabilities, including:
- Server and software misconfigurations
- Default files and programs
- Insecure files and programs
- Outdated servers and programs

Nikto - short introduction

Web server scanner,

Created by : David Lodge and Chris Sullo,
Version 1.00 Beta released on: December 27, 2001
Current version: 2.1.5,
Written in: Perl,
The name is taken from the movie: The Day The Earth Stood Still,
Sponsored by: Sunera LLC,
Official page : http://www.cirt.net/nikto2.

Nikto - short introduction

Open source,
Performs test against web servers
for multiple items:
- Looks for over 6500 potentially dangerous files/CGIs,
- Checks for outdated versions of over 1250 servers,
- Looks for version specific problems on over 270 servers,
- Attempts to identify installed web servers and software,
- Checks for the presence of multiple index files and HTTP
server options,

Output can be saved in a variety of formats: text, XML, HTML.

Nikto - short introduction

Burp Suite
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Vulnerability exploitation

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Nmap
Network scanner

OpenVAS
Vulnerability scanner

Burp Suite

Integrated platform for performing security testing of web

applications,
Its tools work great togheter to support the entire testing process,
from initial mapping and analysis of an applications attack surface,
through to finding and exploiting security vulnerabilities,
Gives full control , meaning combine advanced manual techniques with
state-of-the-art automation for fast, effective results.

http://portswigger.net/burp/

Burp Suite - key components

Proxy - an intercepting proxy , which lets you inspect and modify traffic
between your browser and the target application,
Spider - an application aware spider, for crawling content and
functionality,
Scanner - an advanced web application scanner, for automating the
detection of numerous types of vulnerabilities,
Intruder - an intruder tool, for performing powerful customized attacks
to find and exploit unusual vulnerabilities,
Repeater - a repeater tool, for manipulating and resending individual
requests,
Sequencer - a sequencer tool, for testing the randomness of session
tokens,
Ability to: save your work and resume your work later, write plugins.

Burp Suite - Nikto

Proxy - can intercept the http requests and

show them in proper format so it can be used to
analyse the queries made by Nikto and
discover vulnerabilities.

Burp Suite - Nikto

perl nikto.pl -h localhost -useproxy

http://localhost:8080/

Wikto

Roles: checks for vulnerabilities in webservers,also in the

implementation, it tries to find interesting directories and files on the web
site and it looks for simple scripts that can be abused,
Written in: .NET C#,
Version: 2.1.0.0.
Release date: 2008-12-14,
Created by: sensepost,
Cost: free,
License:GPL,
Nikto for Windows with extra features: fuzzy logic eror code
checking, a back-end miner, Google assisted directory mining, real time
HTTP request/response monitoring.

Wikto - Nikto
Wikto uses Niktos
database to perform
different checks
against web server.

Nikto DB

Nmap

Network Mapper,
Roles: network discovery and security analysis,
Technique: uses IP raw packets ,
Determine: what host are available on the network, what services
(application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating
systems (and OS versions) they are running and other,
Free and Open Source,
Available with: command line and GUI viewer( Zenmap),
Well documented and supported,
Portable: runs on al major operating systems,
Won numerous awards and was featured in twelve movies ,
Official site: http://nmap.org/.

Nmap -Nikto
Scenario: Nikto supports scanning multiple
hosts via text file of host names or IPs. A host
file may also be a Nmap output in greppable
format.

Operating system
Windows 7, 64 bit

Steps

Nikto
Version 2.1.5

Download and install Nikto and Nmap,

Put in the Environment Variables, Path for
the two folders of the programs mentioned
above,
In Start search for cmd, wait to open
Command Prompt,
Type the following for localhost, port 80:

nmap -p80 localhost/24 -sT -Pn -oG - |

nikto.pl -h -

Nmap

-oG - greppable format, name of the file - , to be

passed through stdin/stdout to Nikto,

command-line zip file: nmap-6.40-win32.zip

-sT - TCP connect scan,

-Pn - no ping , disable host discovery.

Nmap -Nikto - scan results

Metasploit

Vulnerability exploitation tool -> Framework,

Released in : 2004,
Project acquired by: Rapid7 in: 2009,
Open source platform for developing, testing and using exploit code ,
Commercial variants, also :
Pro

Express

Community

Framework

Enterprise Security
Programs& Advanced
Penetration Tests

Baseline Penetration
Tests

Free Entry -Level

Edition

Free Open Source

Development
Platform

Web-based GUI

Web-based GUI

Web-based GUI

Java-based GUI

http://www.rapid7.com/products/metasploit/editions-and-features.jsp

Features
Real world security testing
Get a security reality check with exploitation, vulnerabilility validation, advanced attacks and evasion techniques.

Vulnerability validation
Verify which potential vulnerabilities really put your network and data at risk.

Productivity boost
Complete assignments faster with efficient workflows, wizards, data management, APIs and automation.

Password auditing
Uncover weak passwords on over a dozen network services.

Web App Testing

Audit on-premise and cloud-based web apps to identify OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities.

Teamwork and Reporting

Leverage team members' expertise and create reports at the push of a button.

Support for Windows, Linux operating systems

Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8,, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x, 6.x - x86 ,Ubuntu Linux 8.04, 10.04, 12.04 - x86 , Kali Linux 1.0 .

Metasploit -Nikto
How to: Metasploit Framework

How to: Nikto(logging to)

Set a PostgreSQL database

(u:
msf, pass:password123)
Set web xmlrpc interface at :127.0.0.1,
port 55553,
Run a command like: db_vulns , after,
to see how Nikto tested for and detected
the vulnerability

Install Perl modules RPC::XML::Client

and RPC::XML
Add your own test for a vulnerability in
Nikto/Plugins directory

"006XXX","40478","b","/tikiwiki/tiki-graph_formula.php?
w=1&h=1&s=1&min=1&max=2&f[]=x.tan.phpinfo()&t=png&title=","
GET","200","","","","","This device may have a vulnerable installation
of TikiWiki.","",""
where 006XXX is the one number greater than the last entry in
db_test file, 40478 is the osvdb number

[*] Time: Tue Nov 10 00:22:14 UTC 2010 Vuln: host=localhost

port=80 proto=tcp name=nikto.005988 refs=OSVDB-5292
[*] Time: Wed Nov 10 00:23:08 UTC 2010 Vuln: host=localhost
port=80 proto=tcp name=nikto.006453 refs=OSVDB-40478

perl nikto.pl -h localhost -Format msf

-o msf:password123@http://localhost:55553/RPC2
all scan results are saved in the msf database in realtime.

Nessus -Nikto

Started: as a project in 1998,

by: Renaud Deraison,
to: provide a free remote security scanner,
but: in 2005 Tenable Network Security take it
and: make it closed source.
Can perform scans on: networks, operating systems, web applications,mobile devices,
Most popular and capable scanner, for UNIX systems particularly,
Support for different operating systems,
Has an extensive plugin database, updated daily, (plugin = vulnerability test written in
NASL(Nessus Attack Scripting Language) )
Various formats of the scan results : plain text, XML, HTML and Latex,
Last stable release: 5.2.1/May 7, 2013.

Nessus -Nikto
Nikto can be integrated in Nessus

Settings:

How: when Nessus finds a web

server,automatically launch Nikto.

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Nikto installation,
Put nikto.pl in PATH,
Ensure that nikto.nasl is present in the
Nessus install(Nasl Wrapper),
Run nessusd -R,
Finally restart nessusd.

OpenVAS -Nikto

Open Vulnerability Assessment System,

Began under the name GNessUs, as a fork of the Nessus open source tool,
Framework of several services and tools,
Roles: vulnerability scanning and vulnerability management solution,
Cost: free,
Developed by: Greenbone Networks ,
Last stable release: 6.0/April 17, 2013.

Nikto

is integrated, as a tool, into OpenVAS,

the OpenVAS plugin for Nikto integration(nikto.nasl) needs to be present and enabled,
the results of a Nikto scan are included in OpenVAS final scan.

Useful links

http://www.binarytides.com/nikto-hacking-tutorial-beginners/,
http://research.sensepost.com/tools/web/wikto,
http://research.sensepost.
com/cms/resources/tools/web/wikto/using_wikto.pdf,
http://www.rapid7.com/resources/videos/penetration-testing.jsp,
http://infosecandotherstuff.blogspot.ro/2010/11/nikto-xmlrpc-autowpwnmetasploitable.html,
http://cirt.net/nikto2-docs/usage.html#id2740923,
http://nmap.org/book/man-port-scanning-techniques.html,
http://www.tenable.com/sites/drupal.dmz.tenablesecurity.
com/files/uploads/documents/whitepapers/Using%20Nessus%20in%
20Web%20Application%20Vulnerability%20Assessments.pdf

Questions ?

Thank You!