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Becoming the Hacker

You're reading from   Becoming the Hacker The Playbook for Getting Inside the Mind of the Attacker

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788627962
Length 404 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Adrian Pruteanu Adrian Pruteanu
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Attacking Web Applications FREE CHAPTER 2. Efficient Discovery 3. Low-Hanging Fruit 4. Advanced Brute-forcing 5. File Inclusion Attacks 6. Out-of-Band Exploitation 7. Automated Testing 8. Bad Serialization 9. Practical Client-Side Attacks 10. Practical Server-Side Attacks 11. Attacking APIs 12. Attacking CMS 13. Breaking Containers Other Books You May Enjoy
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Situational awareness

Now that we have access to the shell of the Docker container, we should look around and see what else we can find. As we've mentioned before, Docker containers are not VMs. They contain just enough binaries for the application to function.

Since we have shell access on the container, we are constrained to the environment it provides. If the application doesn't rely on ifconfig, for example, it will likely not be packaged with the container and therefore would be unavailable to us now.

We can confirm that our environment is somewhat limited by calling:

weevely> ifconfig
sh: 1: ifconfig: not found
weevely> wget
sh: 1: wget: not found
weevely> nmap
sh: 1: nmap: not found

We do, however, have access to curl, which we can use in place of wget:

weevely> curl
curl: try 'curl --help' or 'curl --manual' for more information

In the worst-case scenario, we could also upload the binaries through Weevely's :file_upload command...

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