Re: NSE script for finding user and admin login pages

Personally I feel the both sides have a valid point. On one side,
duplicating these fingerprinting efforts is counterproductive and hard
to scale. Ideally there should be only one HTTP fingerprinting dataset.

At the same time, running http-enum, which by default fires 2,000+
requests, is a non-starter for me in a corporate environment. The
categories are too coarse to alleviate the issue.

On 4/17/17 2:13 AM, Rewanth Cool wrote:
> The five categories in the http-fingerprint are general, security,
> management, printer, database. My idea is to create new categories like
> php, asp, aspx, jsp and load them with the admin/login pages in their
> respective categories.
> 
> I'm thinking to use parameters like these,
> http-fingerprints.login-pages="php" or
> http-fingerprints.login-pages="all". I will fetch the extensions from
> the parameters given by the user as above and then process the results.
> I will be moving all the admin/login links from the existing
> http-fingerprints file into the new categories which will be created by
> me to avoid repetition of duplicate entries in multiple categories in
> http-fingerprints file.

I am not too keen on representing categories (or super-categories) as
parameter names. IMHO we should stick with parameter values.

One method to accomplish dynamic subsets and/or to avoid agonizing over
whether a particular page should be in this or that category is to
revise the script to allow each fingerprint to be in multiple categories.

In the context of Rewanth's example above,
http-fingerprints.login-pages=all would still be just
http-enum.category=login, but there would be a new construct, xxx.yyy,
that represents an intersection of categories xxx and yyy, not a
category named "xxx.yyy". This would open up the opportunity to have
granular orthogonal categories and even more granular scans, such as:

http-enum.category=printer.login
http-enum.category=login.oracle
http-enum.category=database.login.oracle


Just a thought....


Cheers,
nnposter
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