Hyper Island - 2012

EVIL DATA MINING
FOR FUN AND PROFIT!

Contents
● Web Scraping
● Quick and Dirty SQL Injections
● iPhones, WiFi and Evil Twins
● Hacking Neighbours
● Port scanning on Steroids

Introduction
● Fredrik Nordberg Almroth (@Almroot)
Head application engineer and co-founder @ detectify.com
IT-security guy
Hacked Google. Twice.

● Johan Edholm (@norrskal)
Server administrator and co-founder @ detectify.com
Worked with IT security analytics and anti-scraping
Studied system and network management in Linux

What is Detectify?

Detectify is an automated vulnerability scanner.

● You sign up using beta code.

● You press start!

● Detectify emulates a hacking attack.

● You get a report regarding your vulnerabilities.

● Detectify is currently in closed beta!

● You may try it for free using the beta code: HyperMine

● http://detectify.com/

● We love feedback! :)

What is data mining?
● Data mining is mostly associated with statistics and machine learning.

● ...or discovery of patterns (intelligence) in large datasets...

● No fancy algorithms! Just real life examples.

Web scraping
● Grab content from websites
● Host somewhere else
● Study the data
● Sell the data

Web scraping
● Manual copy-paste

Web scraping
● Bad scrapers
○ Downloadable or online tools
○ Homemade scripts
○ HTTP rewriters

Web scraping
● Homemade scripts
○ Made for one site/purpose
○ No hacking
○ May be against ToS
○ Probably legal

Web scraping
● Sosseblaskan.se
○ Copy of aftonbladet (rewrite)
○ A joke
○ Not ads for aftonbladet
○ Not phishing
○ Illegal

SQL
● Structured Query Language

● Used to talk with databases. MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc...

How it's used
● Websites use databases to maintain data.

● The SQL queries often contain user-data.

● You search on a website for a few keywords.

● The odds of it being done by some SQL dialect is huge.

What could possibly go wrong?
● User supplied data may alter the SQL query.

● Example:
SELECT title FROM blog WHERE title = '$search_keywords';

● If the searched data contain a quote, the SQL query will
break.

● Attackers may gain other data than just the "blog title".

● Usernames, passwords, emails, credit-cards...

● Devastating attack.

● Worst part. It's really common.

● Remember Sony last year?

● Victims 2012.
○ eHarmony
○ last.fm
○ Yahoo!
○ Android Forums
○ Billabong
○ Formspring
○ nVidia
○ Gamigo
○ ...List goes on...

● Thousands of sites attacked daily.

● Incredibly easy to get going.

● Loads of guides and tools on the internet.

● Devastating for the vulnerable organizations.

LIVE DEMO!
(This is the time we'll stand here and struggle with the equipment.)

Fun with WLAN
● Create an evil twin
● Jasager

Evil twin
● You connect to eg. "espresso house free"
● iPhone will save and remember that network
● When you come back it will automatically
connect

Evil twin
● Someone creates a network called
"espresso house free"
● Your phone will automatically connect

What if the attacker don't know which
networks you've been connected to?

Fun with WLAN
● Works on everything
○ Windows, linux, Mac, Android, iPhone etc
● Can be monitored
○ See which networks you are looking for and in which
order

IT-Security @ Home
● Devices on local networks.
○ Routers
○ Printers
○ Heat Pumps
○ Laptops
○ PC's
○ Tablets
○ Cellphones
○ XBOX'es
○ ...etc...

Telecom operator ComHem provide "Tre-hål-i-väggen"

● Routers may act as switches

● IP Forwarding

● You can see your neighbours devices

● Portscan!

● A port scanner finds open services on IP-
addresses.

● nmap

● Find vulnerability
or
● Weak (default) password
or
● No password!

Protip:
http://www.routerpasswords.com/

Conclusion
You can with ease gain access to your
neighbours data.

Speaking of portscanning...
● Spring 2010, the "spoon" project.

● Got interested in packet crafting.

● 3000 packets/second

● Sweden got 25.000.000 allocated IPv4-addresses.

● ...Results in a timeframe of 2 hours and 20 min to scan.

● Resolve all servers on a given port in a Sweden.

● Could of course be applied to any country.

● Early 2011, "spoon2".

● 30000 packets/second. Ten times as fast!

● From 2½ hour, to approximate 15 minutes.

● Same result.

● Imagine a company. Like ACME Corp.

● 10 servers running "spoon2".

● Get a fresh map of Sweden every 90 second.

● 100 servers, every 9'th second second.

● ACME Corp got potential to become a global "pingdom".

● Results in large scale data mining.

● Would require loads of clever algorithms and
infrastructure to maintain it all though.

shodanhq.com
● The firm shodanhq already crawls countries for open
services.

● Identified ~438.000 web servers in Sweden alone.

● Mostly devices found on local networks.
(routers / printers).

● No security. Loads of vulnerable devices.

● Eavesdrop your neighbour? No problem.

● Why bother?

● Can be applied to a whole country.

Summary
● Web Scraping
● Quick and Dirty SQL Injections
● iPhones, WiFi and Evil Twins
● Hacking Neighbours
● Port scanning on Steroids

Q&A
Hack the planet!

http://detectify.com/

References
● http://www.theta44.org/karma/aawns.pdf

● http://timtux.net/posts/10-Vad-delar-du-ut-IT-skerhet-i-hemmet

● http://krebsonsecurity.com/2010/06/wi-fi-street-smarts-iphone-edition/

● http://nmap.org/6/

● http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc793.txt



● http://www.zdnet.com/sql-injection-attacks-up-69-7000001742/

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