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SSL MITM not on port 443 Aug 27 2008 11:32AM
christopher riley r-it at (1 replies)
I've come across a problem in a pentest that I'm working on right now that
I thought the members of the list might be able to assist me with.

I'm working with a propriatary software (written in C++) that communicates
on a high port number using HTTPS. I'm trying to test to see if the
software can be fooled into accepting a false certificate and then traffic
decoded into clear text.

So far I've tried Ettercap, webmitm and CAIN without much luck. The
closest I can get is Ettercap capturing the communication, however it
doesn't offer a forged certificate and all captured traffic is still
encrypted using the normal server certificate. Not much of a MITM attack.
I've confirmed that Ettercap works as advertised against a couple of sites
in Internet Explorer and all seems to work normally.

Does anybody know of a way to force Ettercap to perform an SSL mitm even
though the port isn't associated with HTTPS ? or maybe you can suggest a
better tool for the job ? I can control where the application looks for
the server, so I can divert it through some kind of forwarding proxy if
needed ?

Thanks,

Chris Riley

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[ reply ]
RE: SSL MITM not on port 443 Aug 27 2008 05:24PM
Robbie Gill (rgill arubanetworks com) (2 replies)
RE: SSL MITM not on port 443 Aug 28 2008 06:21AM
christopher riley r-it at (3 replies)
RE: SSL MITM not on port 443 Aug 28 2008 11:50AM
Shenk, Jerry A (jshenk decommunications com)
Re: SSL MITM not on port 443 Aug 28 2008 08:56AM
Ahmad Taha (ahmad taha usa net)
Re: SSL MITM not on port 443 Aug 28 2008 08:43AM
Roman Fulop (ml ensof1 trithem sk)
Re: SSL MITM not on port 443 Aug 27 2008 08:13PM
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