social engineering case study by wasim halani
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Exploiting the human weaknesswww.niiconsulting.com
Presentation by: Wasim ‘washal’ HalaniNetwork Intelligence India Pvt. Ltd.
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Information security at every organization is one of the most important aspects!
It is people who handle this information
Social Engineering is exploiting the weakness link – the employees
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“Social Engineering is the act of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information, rather than by breaking in or using technical hacking techniques; essentially a fancier, more technical way of lying.”
[Source: Wikipedia]
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Wordpress vulnerability on the blogs of their websites
Kevin ‘don’t call me a security expert’ Mitnick
Dan ‘I smile when I am hacked’ Kaminsky
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Phishing Baiting Identity Theft Dumpster Diving Email Scams Use of Authority Request for Help Indulging Curiosity Exploiting Greed=Abuse of Trust
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IT/ITES Company Two offices About 400 – 500 employees We had previously conducted other security
projects for them Guards were familiar with us We also knew a few people from our previous
projects
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Only 3 people in the organization aware of the exercise
Obtain ‘get-out-of-jail-free’ card! Bought a spy pen-cam Create fake authorization letters◦ Fake letterhead (thank-you Photoshop)◦ Fake signatures◦ Fake content
Understand the organization’s process flow Obtain employee list Define ‘targets’
Security Auditor◦ Surprise audit on behalf of Government Agency◦ Chinese attacks on Indian institution (same-day
newspaper headlines ) College Student◦ Research project
Customer◦ Call-center
Phishing Social Networking
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Visit the office Convince the guard to let me in for the
surprise security audit◦ “It won’t be a surprise if you tell anyone”
Once again we interviewed people◦ Some suspicious◦ Reading is not verifying
Dumpster diving
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Gain unauthorized access Stay back late, after almost all employees left◦ Photograph the office
‘Steal’ sensitive documents◦ From open drawers
Check personal folders kept on desks
Sensitive information on technologies used Network architecture revealed Lot of technical information revealed to
“college student” doing a project, as well as journalist
Found bundle of official letter heads in store-room
Gained access to the Server Rooms
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We registered a domain with a single letter difference◦ Registered email accounts
Prepared a ‘Employee Complaint/Feedback Form’◦ Company header, styling etc.
Sent out mails to on behalf of HR person Employees are asked to enter their
‘credentials’ to log in to the system The final page has a PDF that is to be
downloaded as a ‘unique token number’
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About 10 users entered their credentials which we captured
No one downloaded the PDF Took about 10-15 mins. for HR dept. to be
alerted◦ They sent out an email denying the fake email
One employee had a discussion with HR and responded back to our email address
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Linkedin◦ Fake employee profile Searched for people not listed in the network◦ Joined the company ‘network’◦ Sent out invites
Facebook◦ Multiple fake profiles Added each other as friends
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Turns out they had a new employee Everyone thought his was the ‘fake’ profile Very difficult to identify the real profile ‘Attractive’ profiles receive friend requests
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Confidential…
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Contact: wasim.halani@niiconsulting.com http://www.niiconsulting.com @washalsec
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