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Bash Scripting 101 for Pen Testers Hack3rcon 3 (Hacking Illustrated Series InfoSec Tutorial Videos)

Bash Scripting 101 for Pen Testers
Hack3rcon 3

Intro to bash scripting

Lee Baird

Lee works works as a malware analyst in the DC area. He has performed enterprise security assessments for Fortune 500 companies. He holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from Marshall University and is a Offensive Security Certified Professional.

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Notes:

Bash 101 Course

 
When performing security assessments, it is very import that you have a repeatable process.  As you become familiar with more tools, you will want to incorporate them into your process.  Bash scripting is an easy way in which this can be accomplished.  Learn how to read, edit and parse critical information that you need from the output of various tools.  Take user's input and leverage multiple tools to perform OSINT.  Starting with the very basics and taking you through functions and nested arrays, you will learn to build out your own pentest framework that works for you.

 
A very import thing to remember when scripting, is that there are many ways to solve a particular problem.  There is no right way.  Whatever works for you, is the best way.

 
Everything you do from the command line can be scripted.

 
Many of the examples in this class are the same types of commands, that when linked together in a script, can create very useful programs.

 
My editors of choice:
     CLI - nano
     GUI - gedit

 
Create a text file:
     touch file Creates an empty file.
     pipe the output of a command
          ifconfig > tmp
     nano file

 
nano
     ctrl v     Next page.
     ctrl y     Previous page.
     ctrl w    Where is (find).
     ctrl k     Cut that line of test.
     ctrl x     Exit editor.

 
Create a file and append text to it:
     ifconfig > tmp     
     echo >> tmp
     ping google.com -c3 >> tmp

 
How to view a file:
     cat file Show entire contents of file.
     more file Show one page at a time.  Space bar for next page and (q) to exit.
     head file Show the first 10 lines.
     head -15 file Show the first 15 lines.
     tail file Show the last 10 lines.
     tail -15 file Show the last 15 lines.
     tail -f file Useful when viewing the output of a log file.

 
pipe
     Feeds the output of one process to the input of another process.
     cat tmp | grep Bcast

 
Processes
     ps aux Show all running process for all users.
     kill -9 PID Nicely kill a PID.

 
Example
     tab 1 ping google.com
     tab 2 ps aux | grep ping
kill -9 (ping PID)
     tab 1 Verify that ping has stopped.

 
Example
     tab 1 ping google.com > tmp2
     tab 2 tail -f tmp2
     tab 1 ctrl z (pauses the process), bg to background the process.
     tab 2 You can still see the log growing.
     tab 1 fg to foreground the process.
ctrl c to kill the process.
     tab 2 Verify the log file has stopped growing.
ctrl c to kill the process.

 
Count the number of lines in a file:
     wc -l tmp2

 
cut
     -d  delimiter
     -f  fields

 
sort
     sort -u file Sort by unique.

 
Problem
     Isolate the IP address
     cat tmp2 | cut -d '(' -f2 | cut -d ')' -f1 | sort -u

 
awk
     awk '{print $1}' file Show the 1st column.
     awk '{print $1,$5}' file Show the 1st and 5th columns.
     
Problem
     Show the 5 shortest and longest response times to a domain.
     
grep
     grep -v Remove a single string. grep -v 'red' file
     egrep -v Remove multiple strings. egrep -v '(red|white|blue)' file

 
sed
     sed 's/FOO/BAR/g' file Replace FOO with BAR.
     sed 's/FOO//g' file Replace FOO with nothing.
     sed '/^FOO/d' file Remove lines that start with FOO.

 
color
     31=red 32=green 33=yellow 34=blue 35=magenta 36=cyan 
     echo -e "\e[1;34mThis is a blue text.\e[0m"

 
Your first bash script.
     #!/bin/bash
     clear
     echo
     echo
     print "Hello world."

 
Make a file executable.
     chmod +x file
     chmod 755 file

 
Variables
     name=Lee
     echo $name

 
     user=$(whoami)
     echo $user

 
     echo 'Hello' $name. 'You are running as' $user.

 
Problem
     Hello <your name>. Your IP address is <your IP>.

 
Problem
     Name  <your name>
     IP  <your IP>
     Interface  <your interface>
     
User Input
     read -p "Domain: " domain

 
Check For No User Input
     if [ -z $domain ]; then
          echo
          echo "#########################"
          echo
          echo "Invalid choice."
          echo
          exit
     fi

To see more of what you can do with bash scripting, please visit my collection of bash scripts and pentesting framework:
https://github.com/leebaird/backtrack-scripts

 

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