BruCON Network 0x09 Wrap-Up

BruCON 0x09 is over! It’s time to have a look at the data captured during the last Thursday and Friday. As the previous years, the setup was almost the same: An Internet pipe with a bunch of access-points, everything interconnected through a pfSense firewall. The guest network (dedicated to attendees) traffic is captured and processed by a SecurityOnion server + basic full packet capture. We also used our classic wall-of-sheep to track the web browsing activity of our beloved visitors.

Let’s start with a few raw numbers. With the end of the 3G/4G roaming costs in Europe since June, most European visitors avoid the usage of wireless networks and prefer to remain connected via their mobile phone. In a few numbers:

  • 206 Gigabytes of PCAP files
  • 50.450 pictures collected by the wall-of-sheep
  • 19 credentials captured
  • 500+ unique devices connected to the WiFi network
  • 150 PE files downloaded (Windows executables)
  • 3 blocked users
  • 1 rogue DHCP server

We saw almost the same amount of traffic than the previous years (even if we had more people attending the conference!). What about our visitors?
Unique Wi-Fi Clients by OS over Time

Strange that we had some many “unknown” device. Probably due to an outdated MAC address prefixes databases.

Top 10 Applications by Usage - Summary

Good to see that SSL is the top protocol detected! UDP reached the third-position due to the massive use of VPN connections. Which is also good!

Our visitors communicated with 118K+ IP addresses from all over the word:

Worldwide Connections

Here is the top-20 of DNS requests logged:

Rank

FQDN Hits

1

api.dataplicity.com

59310

2

www.google.com

20097

3

softwareupdate.vmware.com

9050

4

auth.gfx.ms

6766

5

swscan.apple.com

6706

6

v10.vortex-win.data.microsoft.com

5300

7

www.googleapis.com

5252

8

www.icanhazip.com

4402

9

www.google.be

3831

10

clients4.google.com

3721

11

play.google.com

3562

12

win10.ipv6.microsoft.com

3459

13

outlook.office365.com

3267

14

ssl.gstatic.com

3130

15

settings-win.data.microsoft.com

3111

16

pingsl.avast.com

2884

17

safebrowsing-cache.google.com

2841

18

avast.com.edgesuite.net

2533

19

graph.facebook.com

2164

20

0x13.nl

1990

As most of the traffic captured was web-based, I had a look at the different tools/applications used to access web resources. Here is the top-20:

Rank

FQDN

1

Firefox

2

Chrome

3

Microsoft-CryptoAPI

4

Microsoft

5

Safari

6

Dalvik

7

trustd

8

MSIE

9

cloudd

10

Debian

11

Windows-Update-Agent

12

iPhone

13

Unspecified

14

Microsoft-WNS

15

CaptiveNetworkSupport

16

serer-bag

17

MICROSOFT_DEVICE_METADATA_RETRIEVAL_CLIENT (1)

18

Spotify

19

Unknown

20

Microsoft-Delivery-Optimization

(1) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/install/device-metadata-retrieval-client

I uploaded the 200+ gigabytes of PCAP data into my Moloch instance and searched for interesting traffic. What has been found:

  • One visitor polled his network devices (172.16.x.x) during the two days (5995 SNMP connections detected)
  • Two visitors performed RDP sessions to two external IP addresses
  • Two visitors generated SIP (VoIP) traffic with two remote servers
  • 29 remote IMAP servers were identified (strange, no POP3! 🙂
  • SSH connections were established with 36 remote servers (no telnet!)

Finally, our wall-of-sheep captured web traffic during the whole conference:

Wall of Sheep

Of course, we had some “p0rn denial of service attacks” but it’s part of the game right? See you for the 0x0A (10th edition) next year with, crossing fingers, more fun on the network!

 

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