I personally use exiftool to extract EXIF or Exchangeable Image File data from files including Microsoft Office files such as .doc, .xls, and .ppt. The newer versions of Microsoft Office have new file extensions as you know which are .docx, .pptx, and .xlsx. The version of exiftool on Backtrack Linux doesn’t extract EXIF data from…
The asp-auditor application located in Backtrack 5 R3 is fairly outdated but it still does a good job of finger printing ASP servers but the vulnerabilities that it may locate link to articles that no longer exist on the developers personal web site. Below we show two examples where asp-auditor, which is written in Perl,…
SQLDict servers one purpose which is to brute force Microsoft SQL Server passwords. The easiest way to launch SQLDict is using the Backtrack navigation menu which launches the SQLDict.exe application using wine. The interface is easy to use as shown in the below example images.
If your daily driver is a Macbook or similar and you also manage a network that has Microsoft SQL Server running on it then it can be useful to login to those MSSQL Servers remotely. Even if its simply to view database layout or verify a service is running properly by actually connecting to it…
We have had a couple requests to write a post about readpst which is included in the default path of Backtrack 5 and also located in the Backtrack menu underneath Forensics/Forensics Analysis Tools. The readpst application will read PST files which are also known as Microsoft Outlook Personal Folders and convert them to mbox, MH,…
Recently I have been using my Xbox 360 gamer profile a lot at my office to stream music using Zune. While I do have an Xbox 360 at my office and at my house it can be a pain because I have to lug the hard drive with my Microsoft Xbox 360 Gamer Profile on…
Recently I started using a USB flash drive to store my Xbox 360 gamer profile on and realized it would be nice to name it properly so if I have decide to have more than one USB flash drive in use with my Xbox 360 they won’t both be named the default of Memory Unit.…
Instead of having a hard drive on your Microsoft Xbox 360 you can instead use any USB hard drive. The limitation is the fact that you can only format 16GB of any USB drive to work with the Xbox 360 so unless you want multiple partitions on the USB drive I would actually just purchase…
After a recent Nipper upgrade I received an error when attempting to launch the application. The upgrade was from Nipper 2.1.6 to Nipper 2.1.9 on a Windows 7 Professional 64 bit computer. Below I describe the error in more detail as well as what was done to resolve the error. Nipper Studio is released by…
The xprobe2 application was built specifically for OS Fingerprinting or being able to accurately guess a servers Operating System. The unfortunate part about xprobe2 is that is extremely outdated and doesn’t even include Windows 7 in its list of OS’s that it can identify. Even though nmap is pretty much the staple for people to…