Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 03:21:03 -0500
From: Jon Oberheide <jon@...rheide.org>
To: Alessandro Dellavedova <alessandro.dellavedova@...m-ieo-campus.it>
Cc: Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@...ne.ids.pl>,
	full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, pen-test@...urityfocus.com,
	bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] 0trace - traceroute on established
	connections

LFT is similar to tcptraceroute in that it uses TCP SYN probes.  As
Michal stated in his original message, 0trace is different as it
piggybacks on an already established TCP connection.

Regards,
Jon Oberheide


On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 09:03 +0100, Alessandro Dellavedova wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> am I wrong or the mechanism that you implement is similar to the one  
> implemented in lft (Layer Four Traceroute http://pwhois.org/lft/ ) ?
> 
>  From the homepage:
> 
> "LFT is the all-in-one traceroute tool because it can launch a  
> variety of different probes using both UDP and TCP layer-4 protocols.  
> For example, rather than only launching UDP probes in an attempt to  
> elicit ICMP "TTL exceeded" from hosts in the path, LFT can send TCP  
> SYN or FIN probes to target arbitrary services. Then, LFT listens for  
> "TTL exceeded" messages, TCP RST (reset), and various other  
> interesting heuristics from firewalls or other gateways in the path.  
> LFT also distinguishes between TCP-based protocols (source and  
> destination), which make its statistics slightly more realistic, and  
> gives a savvy user the ability to trace protocol routes, not just  
> layer-3 (IP) hops. With LFT's verbose output, much can be discovered  
> about a target network."
> 
> Ciao,
> 
> Alessandro
> 
> On Jan 7, 2007, at 12:53 AM, Michal Zalewski wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to announce the availability of a free security  
> > reconnaissance /
> > firewall bypassing tool called 0trace. This tool enables the user to
> > perform hop enumeration ("traceroute") within an established TCP
> > connection, such as a HTTP or SMTP session. This is opposed to sending
> > stray packets, as traceroute-type tools usually do.
> >
> > The important benefit of using an established connection and  
> > matching TCP
> > packets to send a TTL-based probe is that such traffic is happily  
> > allowed
> > through by many stateful firewalls and other defenses without further
> > inspection (since it is related to an entry in the connection table).
> >
> > I'm not aware of any public implementations of this technique, even  
> > though
> > the concept itself is making rounds since 2000 or so; because of  
> > this, I
> > thought it might be a good idea to give it a try.
> >
> > [ Of course, I might be wrong, but Google seems to agree with my
> >   assessment. A related use of this idea is 'firewalk' by Schiffman  
> > and
> >   Goldsmith, a tool to probe firewall ACLs; another utility called
> >   'tcptraceroute' by Michael C. Toren implements TCP SYN probes,  
> > but since
> >   the tool does not ride an existing connection, it is less likely to
> >   succeed (sometimes a handshake must be completed with the NAT device
> >   before any traffic is forwarded). ]
> >
> > A good example of the difference is www.ebay.com (66.135.192.124) - a
> > regular UDP/ICMP traceroute and tcptraceroute both end like this:
> >
> > 14  as-0-0.bbr1.SanJose1.Level3.net (64.159.1.133)  ...
> > 15  ae-12-53.car2.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.68.123.80) ...
> > 16  * * *
> > 17  * * *
> > 18  * * *
> >
> > Let's do the same using 0trace: we first manually telnet to  
> > 66.135.192.124
> > to port 80, then execute: './0trace.sh eth0 66.135.192.124', and  
> > finally
> > enter 'GET / HTTP/1.0' (followed by a single, not two newlines) to  
> > solicit
> > some client-server traffic but keep the session alive for the  
> > couple of
> > seconds 0trace needs to complete the probe.
> >
> > The output is as follows:
> >
> > 10 80.91.249.14
> > 11 213.248.65.210
> > 12 213.248.83.66
> > 13 4.68.110.81
> > 14 4.68.97.33
> > 15 64.159.1.130
> > 16 4.68.123.48
> > 17 166.90.140.134 <---
> > 18 10.6.1.166     <--- new data
> > 19 10.6.1.70      <---
> > Target reached.
> >
> > The last three lines reveal firewalled infrastructure, including  
> > private
> > addresses used on the inside of the company. This is obviously an
> > important piece of information as far as penetration testing is  
> > concerned.
> >
> > Of course, 0trace won't work everywhere and all the time. The tool  
> > will
> > not produce interesting results in the following situations:
> >
> >   - Target's firewall drops all outgoing ICMP messages,
> >
> >   - Target's firewall does TTL or full-packet rewriting,
> >
> >   - There's an application layer proxy / load balancer in the way
> >     (Akamai, in-house LBs, etc),
> >
> >   - There's no notable layer 3 infrastructure behind the firewall.
> >
> > The tool also has a fairly distinctive TCP signature, and as such,  
> > it can
> > be detected by IDS/IPS systems.
> >
> > Enough chatter - the tool is available here (Linux version):
> >
> >   http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/soft/0trace.tgz
> >
> > Note: this is a 30-minute hack that involves C code coupled with a  
> > cheesy
> > shellscript. It may not work on non-Linux systems, and may fail on  
> > some
> > Linuxes, too. It could be improved in a number of ways - so if you  
> > like
> > it, rewrite it.
> >
> > Many thanks for Robert Swiecki (www.swiecki.net) for forcing me to
> > finally give this idea some thought and develop this piece.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > /mz
> >
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