Tuesday, June 21, 2005

dsniff is a password sniffer

Penetration Testing with dsniff
Christopher R. Russel
February 18, 2001

http://www.ouah.org/dsniffintr.htm

arpspoof redirects packets on a LAN to defeat the host-isolating behaviour of the switch.
dnsspoof forges replies to DNS queries.
dsniff password sniffer with ability to handle FTP, Telnet, SMTP, HTTP, POP, poppas, NNTP, IMAP, SNMP, LDAP, Rlogin, RIP, OSPF, PPTP MS-CHAP, NFS, VRRP, YP/NIS, SOCKS, X11, CVS, IRC, AIM, ICQ, Napster, PostgreSQL, Meeting Maker, Citrix ICA, Symantec pcAnywhere, NAI Sniffer, Microsoft SMB, Oracle SQL*Net, Sybase and Microsoft SQL authentication info.
filesnarf saves files sniffed from NFS traffic.
macof causes LAN switch to fail-open (ie. Act as a hub and broadcast traffic to all hosts).
mailsnarf saves email messages sniffed from SMTP and POP traffic.
msgsnarf saves messages and chat sessions sniffed from most Instant Messenger protocols and IRC.
tcpkill kills specified in-progress TCP connections.
tcpnice slows down specified TCP connections.
urlsnarf reports URLs sniffed from HTTP traffic.
webspy sends sniffed URLs to your local Netscape browser, allowing you to browse in real-time along with the target.
sshmitm proxies and sniffs SSH traffic redirected by dnsspoof, captures password logins and optionally allows hijacking interactive sessions.
webmitm proxies and sniffs HTTP/HTTPS traffic redirected by dnsspoof, capturing SSL-encrypted logins and form submissions.


Penetration Testing
Attack Preliminaries: Accessing the Target Network Traffic
Attack One: Password Sniffing
Attack Two: Message and File Capture
Attack Three: URL capture

Attack Four: Man-in-the-Middle

Song, Dug. "dsniff Frequently Asked Questions."
http://www.monkey.org/~dugsong/dsniff/faq.html




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