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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

Testing control

In the previous section, we learned how to override the inputs and simulate a signal on contact X001, which allowed us to trigger an output on the Y001 coil. We then proceeded to wire up the input side of the PLC to a switch and reproduce the same results, but this time with a physical input. Finally, we wired up our four-light Signal Tower. In this section, we are going to test the Signal Tower both from the DataView and from our SCADA VM by utilizing the MBtget tool that we installed in Chapter 2, Route the Hardware.

You will need to perform the following steps:

  1. Open DataView1, as we did in the previous section; as a refresher, check the following screenshot, where you will find it in the Monitor | Data View section:

    Figure 3.44 – Data View

  2. This will bring up the window for Data View. As we did previously, add the new contacts you created in the previous section. These contacts are X002, X003, and X004 in the address space. Make sure to enable...