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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

Configuring communication

Now we know that there is a path through to the physical PLC, however, we are not able to communicate with it. The solution to this is that we will have to adjust the IP address of the Windows 7 VM to align with the subnet that the PLC is in. This will allow us to connect directly to the PLC and configure the address to align with the subnet that we established for the virtual PLC developed in the previous chapter.

By looking at Figure 2.26, we want to make sure that we provide Windows 7 with an IP address that can ping the Koyo CLICK. I have decided to arbitrarily choose 192.168.0.20 because my CLICK has a default address of 192.168.0.10, however, depending on the default address that your Koyo CLICK may have, you will need to adjust this appropriately:

Figure 2.26 – Configure Windows interface

Once you have set your IP address, you can launch the CLICK programming software and click on Connect to PLC, then select the PLC...