RE: Directory Scanner

Darn, you are correct Henry, I guess I just read too fast.

Refocusing the answer, There are 2 alternatives I would suggest

1. You can implement HTTP Digest/Challenge authentication (no BASIC
authentication please, unless you have SSL) on the files directory
2. If you have forms authentication, Implement a proxy page (as
suggested before) that will serve the actual document, save the
file-user relationship on a DB AND move the documents to a non-Web (to
prevent direct access) and non-system folder (to prevent privilege
escalation).

If each document needs to be served to a different user or a group of
named users or a combination of both (they are private documents) then
option 2 is easier to maintain in my experience.

Regards, hope it helps
Juan C Calderon

-----Original Message-----
From: Henry Troup [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Henry Troup
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 4:14 PM
To: Calderon, Juan Carlos (GE, Corporate, consultant)
Subject: Re: Directory Scanner

I thought the point was that document_1 implied that someone might
request _2 through _65535 and forcibly enumerate the documents. 

Henry Troup, Ottawa, Canada
Sent from my BlackBerry 613-851-5095
[email protected]

-----Original Message-----
From: "Calderon, Juan Carlos \(GE, Corporate, consultant\)"
<[email protected]>
Sender: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:45:49
To: Alexander Pick<[email protected]>; Thugzclub
Thugzclub<[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: Directory Scanner

I understand authentication to these documents is not an issue what is
an issue is directory listing. IIS prevents this by default so I assume
you are using Apache, Tomcat or another server. So the best way to
prevent this issue is to modify your .htaccess file to avoid listing
files:

Here is an example of how to use it
http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess11.shtml

Regards,
Juan C Calderon

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Alexander Pick
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 3:11 AM
To: Thugzclub Thugzclub
Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: Directory Scanner

Another idea is to proxy your download URLs through a script and hide
the real files outside the web root. 

If you do it in PHP it's pretty simple (header + read file + bit
security). Just make sure to make the script secure in terms of
directory transversal etc., many people hide their downloads for
security and create even bigger holes with bad scripts.
You can also add all sort of attack detection to it, like recording the
hit count of an IP to it and auto locking the downloads after a certain
amount. 

Hope this helps.

greets,
Alex


> A question:
> 
> Given a website URL like the below :
> 
> http://www.companywebsite.com/resources/resources/whitepapers/document
> _1_wp.pdf
> http://www.companywebsite.com/resources/resources/whitepapers/document
> _arbinatryname__wp.pdf
> 
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