Day 1: Enumerate targets in a web application CTF. Explore potential sqli points. Look at SSTI for Werkzeug. Look at SSRF candidate. (dafuq is a gunicorn?)

Day 2: Listened to @jhaddix@twitter talk about his methodology at NahamCon. Lot of good tools and some advice on things to pay attention to during enumeration. Need to re-watch and take notes--play with some tools. (Also was up to wee hours this a.m. working NahamCon ctf)

Day 3: Reviewed shub's (@infosec_au@twitter) slides (drive.google.com/file/d/14OFU-) from NahamCon 2022 re: Finding 0days in Enterprise Software. I did not know Lotus Domino was still a thing.

Day 4: Installed k8s on Ubuntu lab box. Downloaded Kubernetes Goat (madhuakula.com/kubernetes-goat) to install later tonight or tomorrow. I wish to grok the networking better.

Day 5: Virtually attended SANS CloudSecNext Summit. Really good Keynote by Sounil Yu (youtu.be/mEGqC1tuO4E). Also saw a preso on K8 security by Jay Beale.

I fell down and broke the chain. Watched Nahamsec's Live Recon Sundays session today with Stök and JHaddix where they interviewed @lilc. That was fun and a good reminder to get back at it. Got run some errands and then back at it tonight.

Day1a: New Chain. (Oof.) Today, started a multi-day by cmd+ctrl. Currently at 1570 points. Found a couple of pages susceptible to , which led to and sensitive data disclosure. Solved an encryption challenge and found a "published" DOS bug. Currently banging on an . ;)

Day2a: Continued . Solved crypto challenge and found hidden end point. Sqlmap continues chewing on user table. Used an idor and a script to enumerate all the users.

Day3a: Continued . Solved an image forensics channel. Wrote some scripts to reap user account data and to reap all the images. Read part one of a three part blog on bulbs found in a CDN provider network. CDN Provider had their side published, as well.

Day4a: Continued . Poked at login page and got an interesting error. Still tinkering with that between meetings. There's an auth bypass here, I can *smell* it. Also had some vigorous discussion on what Domain Isolation" is and isn't.

Day5a: Continued , but haven't gotten much further. Watched Hack the Box's "Hands on Hacking" live-stream that's setting up Cyber Apocalypse CTF 2022, which starts tomorrow. Keep an eye on HtB's youtube channel, they'll be posting the videos. The ippsec interview was good and Sheeraz gave a good overview of K8s, which I found helpful. (One more meeting and then I can focus on the auth bypass sqli...)

Day6: The new chain is longer than the old chain! Started Cyber Apocalypse CTF 2022 this morning and worked on it for a couple of hours. Got the 'intro' flag. Worked on two of the challenges, but haven't gotten anywhere--oof. Slight blow to psyche. Good weather today, so worked on container gardening. Now that dinner is done and have whisky on the side table, getting back at it.

Day7: Continued banging on Cyber Apocalypse CTF '22. Finally "really" on the board with a solved web challenge. Downloaded the code for a bunch of other challenges, so it's time to practice code analysis.

Day8: Continued Cyber Apocalypse CTF. Getting *way* more acquainted w/JavaScript. I've got an XSS, but I'm still working out weaponization. Still no additional points, but the day ain't done yet.

Day9: Continued Cyber Apocalypse . Moved to a new challenge. Enumerated site, but not finding entry point. Spent good part of day working on groking MSFT Defender for Cloud Apps.

Day 1b: Dropped the ball yesterday, busy day. Cyber Apocalypse is done. Working on a machine today. New day, new chain.

Day 2b: Kept at the machine. Working out a good payload. Interesting injection point. Also reworking note taking process. Still slow.

Day 3b: More reading about , still need to find right payload. Found an article that walks through a process to find a way to the OS module.

Day4b: Testing payloads. Trying to figure out if I’m overthinking it. Tokens matter.

Day6b: Hack the Box Academy. I like the UI for Burp, but I like not having to pay to get the goodness that ZAP brings. Also took a minute to break the rust off for using Metasploit. Can't remember the last time I looked at that.

Day7b: Read the Verizon DBIR. Interesting graphs in there. Nothing really new under the sun. Which isn't a bad thing.

Day8b: Power went out for a couple of hours today. So, went analogue and read two chapters of Hacking APIs by Corey J. Ball (nostarch.com/hacking-apis)

Day9b: Decided "hacking" myself counts today. Started using LYT (linkingyourthinking.com) note-taking. Moved a bunch of notes from old program to the new.

Day10: New chain, longer than the old chain! Read more of Hacking APIs, by Corey Ball. Looking forward to learning more about GraphQL—want to understand the AuthZ patterns and techniques. Also learned about Broken Object Level Authorization (BOLA). The examples look a lot like IDOR, but I think I grok the diff. You can have an IDOR that’s not a BOLA, but I reckon you could get a BOLA as a result of an IDOR. Still need to think and tinker with this one a bit.

Day11: Continued working on Hacking APIs. Next up is working on the labs. Created a postman account.

Day12: Worked on _Hacking APIs_, Lab 1. Didn't use Burpsuite, used Zap instead. Compared and contrasted with Postman. Slow going at first as I get acquainted with Postman.

Day13: The chain continues... Another chapter down in _hacking APIs_. Installing deliberately vulnerable apps for the next lab and will bang on them later this evening. In the meantime, kidlet has prepared dinner.

Day14: SANS ICS Summit CTF. I'm on the board! No where near top 10, but I'm not sussed since I'm learning more about ICS this way.

Day15: Back to _Hacking APIs_. Got Juice Shop installed and tucked behind an nginx reverse proxy, along with DVGA. Now have some systems to put on my list of targets. Next chapter down.

Day16: Continuing reading _Hacking APIs_. Installed OWASP crAPI app on lab machine. Getting some touches with docker. Need to troubleshoot an error w/one of the crAPI containers. Then, time to hack it!

Day 17: Lab in _Hacking APIs_ wants working version of crAPI. Getting crAPI turned out to be fail. Nuked, paved, and re-started that effort. Same result. Documented steps and results. Opened an issue. Got a quick response for additional info, so we'll see how this goes. In retrospect, I should have anticipated the question.

Day18: Finally managed to get crAPI working. Needed to move to from docker 20.10.14 to 20.10.16, because of course. (I am not enamored of docker.) Finished the first crAPI lab.

Day19: Tested the other deliberately vulnerable apps I had issues with on the new version of docker. All good! Wrote a wrapper script to start/stop the apps as needed. (They're supposed to be cows, not pets ya?) Chapters 7 & 8 read of _Hacking APIs_.

Day21: Enumeration and attacks on crAPI. Error message on one of the screens suggested I might be able to brute force 'a thing'. Used ZAP's regex fuzzer for the first time. Didn't get a hit, so I've either mis-inferred what the message meant or it's a lie. After registering a user, attacked jwt with jwtcrack to see if I could get the secret. Success! JWT payload may be an unfortunate decision, so next step is to find other users to see if I can impersonate them.

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Day22: Found some users. With the secret from "my" jwt and was able forge tokens for each user. With the forged tokens, I could reset their passwords. However, logging in yielded a blank page. Trying out kiterunner to find other API endpoints while I watch the Jan 6 hearings.

Day23: Another chapter down in _Hacking APIs_ and tinkering with postman. Time for a cocktail and then pick it back up after dinner.

Day24: Continued on the exercise from Chapter 9. Couldn't get postman to reproduce the results I was expecting. So, I wrote a bash script to do the enumeration. I get the point. Icing would be to rewrite in python and add some processing.

Day25: Continued tinkering with script and postman to refine enumeration process on crAPI. Still bash über alles! I *think* I'm finding different version of APIs, so need to work through how to confirm and then, once confirmed, how to exploit.

Day26: Continued reviewing results of running script for 3 scenarios--got a couple of more I could try, but I want to tweak the output. Read chapter 10 of _Hacking APIs_, in the past I've failed to consider the the real signal in an HTTP 405. Do better!

Day27: Tried out the exercise at the end of chapter 10. Read chapter 11 of _Hacking APIs_.

Day28: Time to read chapters 12 and 13 of _Hacking APIs_. Busy day.

Day29: Time to read chapter 14 of _Hacking APIs_. Tomorrow, labs for 12, 13, & 14.

Day30: Finished _Hacking APIs_ last night. Will review and finish labs tomorrow. Spent a couple of hours looking at a VDP/Bug Bounty program with a really big scope. Started nailing down and documenting some of the detailed scope—DNS domains, net blocks, websites, etc.

Day31: Diving back into _Bug Bounty Bootcamp_ by Vickie Li (@vickieli7/twitter). Skimmed/refreshed chapters 1-4. Slowed down on chapter 5 and started blindly applying examples to the VDP I picked last night. Finding hosts and subdomains.

Day32: More enumeration of VDP scope. A host/subdomain I initially picked off looks to be an orphaned DNS name. Will keep an eye out for calls to it from other assets. Maybe the glb/waf is looking for something "magical". Found a doc spelling out a policy that may help.

Day33: More enum. Found a new tld to chew on. Started poking at an apparent code repository, but it's pretty thin. Need to do some reading on the product. Another host is H U G E, relatively speaking, and is running Wordpress. Managed to get my IP baninated spidering the site. Getting acquainted with axiom now.

Day34 (1/3rd of the way!): A scan is still going, but it's NAT is likely sinkholed. Will wait until scan is done to confirm. Spider results from ZAP are still getting chewed on. So, in the meantime, read ahead on _Bug Bounty Bootcamp_.

Day35: Scan is done and the results are thin. I did feed it too much, but the results suggest I may have misused the tool. Shrinking the target and trying another tool. Some of the URLs in the spider results have queries, so checking for sqli test candidates. ZAP continues trying to choke down the analysis of the spidering.

Day36: Tried out feroxbuster. Seems like it's hung, so I'll give it some more time. Took another look at the code repository's search function to see if I could find more 'stuff'. No joy there. Need to read some more. Might be time to look at another host in the VDP.

Day37-ish: Feroxbuster was hung. Killed it off, pulled state file and output log back for additional analysis. Gave to face discussions with a netsec vendor about netflow analysis, which dovetailed with risky.biz podcast I listened today. They talked w/Gigamon on the same topic.

Day38: Vacation! Which is going to cramp my activities. Reading chapter 6 of _Bug Bounty Bootcamp_.

Day39: Vacation! Reading chapter 7 of _Bug Bounty Bootcamp_.

Day40: Still vacationing. Read Chapter 8 of _Bug Bounty Bootcamp_. (Also watched _Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness_.)

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