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Pentesting Industrial Control Systems

By : Paul Smith
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Pentesting Industrial Control Systems

By: Paul Smith

Overview of this book

The industrial cybersecurity domain has grown significantly in recent years. To completely secure critical infrastructure, red teams must be employed to continuously test and exploit the security integrity of a company's people, processes, and products. This is a unique pentesting book, which takes a different approach by helping you gain hands-on experience with equipment that you’ll come across in the field. This will enable you to understand how industrial equipment interacts and operates within an operational environment. You'll start by getting to grips with the basics of industrial processes, and then see how to create and break the process, along with gathering open-source intel to create a threat landscape for your potential customer. As you advance, you'll find out how to install and utilize offensive techniques used by professional hackers. Throughout the book, you'll explore industrial equipment, port and service discovery, pivoting, and much more, before finally launching attacks against systems in an industrial network. By the end of this penetration testing book, you'll not only understand how to analyze and navigate the intricacies of an industrial control system (ICS), but you'll also have developed essential offensive and defensive skills to proactively protect industrial networks from modern cyberattacks.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1 - Getting Started
5
Section 2 - Understanding the Cracks
9
Section 3 - I’m a Pirate, Hear Me Roar
15
Section 4 -Capturing Flags and Turning off Lights

Chapter 9: Ninja 308

In the previous chapter, we discussed the fundamentals of industrial protocols and specifically the nuances of two in particular: Modbus and Ethernet/IP. We discussed and used tools that allowed us to enumerate ports and discover services running on those devices. We also used tools to traverse directories and vhosts in Chapter 7, Scanning 101, which means that we have a great foundational knowledge of both ends of the attack chain.

Now, we need to spend time looking at attacks and, most importantly, brute forcing. As exciting as it is to find a legacy service that we then spend time reverse engineering and building an exploit for, time is typically not on our side. If you discover a system such as Ignition SCADA, which we installed in Chapter 7, Scanning 101, it is fairly common for operational personnel to use simple passwords or factory defaults to access the system. Gaining access to a SCADA system as a user allows you to take over absolute control of the...