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- 1. ImplementingActive Directory and Information SecurityAudit alsoVAPT in FinancialSector. Prepared By:- Kajol Patel :RSU1808023 Guided By : Dr. Priyanka Sharma
- 2. Introduction Digital world has opened unlimited avenues of opportunity by enabling organizations to conduct business and share information on a global basis. Active Directory Domain provides information about network resource such as users, user’s password, groups, authentication process, network printer and computer and makes the information available to users and administration. Active directory allows administrator to manage centrally all management with the help of group policy. The presence of an information security audit increases the probability of adopting major security measures and preventing these attacks or lowering the cyber world attacks. VAPT includes auditing the system for finding vulnerabilities, which may be exist on the system; exploit that vulnerability same as an attacker perspective and produce data which representing the system level risk.
- 3. Literature Review In 2017, S. Sandhya1 et al, Sohini Purkayastha2 et al, Emil Joshua3 et al, Akash Deep4 et al discussing the utilizing the penetration testing approach exploitationWireshark tool and demonstrating that technique. It have additionally survived many tools for penetration testing to unravel security aspects and problems. In 2016 year, Prashant S. Shinde1 et al, Shrikant B. Ardhapurkar2 et al explained clearly of various aspects and techniques employed in vulnerability assessment and penetration testing. Additionally concentrate area on cyber security threats awareness and importance in organization, monetary sector to stay safe.They conclude that there unit several tools obtainable forVAPT, with new vulnerability evolution existing tools must be upgraded to identify new vulnerabilities and makes them versatile and reliable so new attack signature are often known.
- 4. Literature Review In 2016, Subarna Shakya1Abhijit Gupta2 discussing the audit aspects and challenges on system and Security Audit areas. additionally they seeks clarification from the perceptive the problems or behavior. group actionControls unit such techniques and issues that addressing group action security and focus on risk management and laptop security of the program at intervals the monetary sector and organization. In 2015, P. C. R.V. Parmi1, discussing and implement the thought of active directory in giant organizations may face to the loss of management over user's resources and knowledge which may lead to serious security threats. Directory which is ready to then create the replication of all domain controllers within the domain. However option to store the DNS info within the AD is not obtain on DNS servers that is not a domain controller.
- 5. What isActive Directory ? Active Directory is Microsoft's version of X.500 recommendations. It 's database and directory service , which maintains the relations ship between resources and enable them to work together. It provide centralized repository for user account information and directory authentication , authorization and assignment of right and permissions. It store information in hierarchical tree like structure . It depends on two Internet standard one is DNS and other is LDAP. Information in Active directory can be queried by using LDAP protocol and it use Kerberos for authentication.
- 6. Active Directory Fig 1: AD structure
- 7. Do the Financial Sector Need Active Directory Active directory is the most commonly used identity management service in the world. 95% of Fortune 1000 companies implement the service in their networks. If I want to centrally manage access to resources such as printers, users and group. If I want to control user accounts from one location. If I have application that rely on Active Directory. This concepts also used in financial sector and big organisations.
- 8. Active Directory Components Logical Structure Domains Organizational units Trees Forests Physical Structure Sites Domain controllers
- 9. Organizational units Fig 2: OU structure
- 10. Forests of Trees Fig 3:Trees structure
- 11. Protocols LDAP Protocol The requirement of protocols in active directory, First methodology LDAP could be used by users to search and locate a particular object like any system. LDAP makes use all keywords to carry out a search operation. DNS Protocol Second methodology DNS that are domain controllers it will store the data of the Active Directory which will then make the replication of all domain controller of the particular domain.
- 12. Protocols Kerberos Mechanism Kerberos is an authentication method that allows users to log in to an active directory domain. This authentication method provides them with a token, which an identity server can be configured to use as a contract. So for Kerberos protocol, it’s important to consider what role each participant is authenticating with single particular authentication transaction. Fig 4: Kerberos process Fig 5: Kerberos process
- 14. Set SPN(Service Principal Name) The Kerberos authentication service can use an SPN to authenticate a service.
- 15. VAPT Auditing Information Security Audit. Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing Services (VAPT) ABOUT VAPT. Vulnerability Assessments are a process of identifying, quantifying, and. vulnerabilities in a system. Steps: Executive Report – A high level overview of the activity conducted, summary of issues identified, risk ratings and action items. Technical Report – A detailed report explaining each issue identified, step-by-step POCs for each issue, code and configuration examples to fix the issue and reference links for further details. Real-Time Online Dashboard – A online portal that allows your teams to monitor the audit progress in real time, take immediate actions for high risk issues, track fixes and closure status, etc.
- 16. Vulnerability Analysis Service Account has Over-permission In service accounts has kind of account that always provides a lot of privileges and allow services to the superjacent the actual software package. This services running beneath service incorporates a certificate in LSASS (Local security authority subsystem) which might be steal and extracted by the attacker and if the stealing credentials has admin rights then it’ll be simply compromises the whole IT infrastructure.
- 17. DCshadow attack onAD A DCShadow attack on AD and it is design for change the directory using malicious replica of objects. During this attack, DCShadow impersonating the Domain Controller using admin rights and starts a replication process, so that changes made on one DC are synchronizing with other DCs. DCShadow creates the replication of directory Service Remote Protocol and AD Technical specification. Mimikatz attack perform by the attacker. But it will destroyed whole DC for the active directory. So In VAPT audit purpose we can not exploit this attack on the domain. Only we have this attack as a vulnerability.
- 18. DCshadow attack onAD An attacker obtains Domain Admin rights and wants to make changes that will not be detected to create persistence. Using DCShadow (a feature of Mimikatz) the attacker will register the computer it is run from (such as a workstation) as a Domain Controller in Active Directory by making changes to the AD’s Configuration schema and the workstation’s SPN values. Now AD thinks this workstation is a Domain Controller and it is trusted to replicate changes. A change is crafted by the attacker. The workstation makes this change available to a legitimate Domain Controller through replication. Replication is triggered by DCShadow and the change is replicated and then committed by a legitimate Domain Controller
- 19. DCshadow attack onAD Eternalblue_doublepulser EternalBlue Metasploit exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft’s implementation of the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. The vulnerability exists because the SMB version 1 (SMBv1) server in various versions of Microsoft Windows specially crafted packets from remote attackers, allowing them to execute arbitrary code on the target computer. This exploit is a combination of two tools “EternalBlue” which is use as backdooring in windows and “DoublePulsar” which is used for injecting dll file with the help of payload.
- 20. DCshadow attack onAD Step 2: Get the shell Step 1: Exploit with metasploit
- 21. Mimikatz attacks Step 3: load the mimikatz attack Step 4: Perform mimikatz command Step 5: Get the hashes
- 22. High-level overview and flowchart: Mimikatz will execute the DCShadow attack as a three step process: (1) it will set these SPN’s as part of the DCShadow functionality, (2) it will temporarily host the necessary RPC functions required by MS-DRSR process to serve the illegitimate data for outbound replication, and (2) as a last step, Mimikatz will force replication through the RPC Server. Fig 6: Process of Attack
- 23. Solution AdvancedThreat Protection (ATP) to the rescue The successor to Microsoft ATA, Microsoft’s solution for protecting your Active Directory, is now called Azure ATP. It does not rely on events that get forwarded from your domain controller, but instead uses its own sensors that your install on your DC. This sensor does also capture events, but also looks at network traffic, in memory processes and other new methods get added as detections need them. This is why Azure ATP actually detects (potential) DCShadow attacks.
- 24. Solution Step 1: Shows the Attack
- 25. Solution Step 2: Shows the user
- 26. Solution Step 3: Shows the attack with severity
- 33. Conclusion For existing system, in financial sector there would many vulnerabilities occurred due to access privileges mechanism. So for the best solution is to implement active directory environment and performing information security audit and VAPT for financial sector and it can provides the help from the inside and outside cyber-attacks.
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