CAPEC-144: Detect Unpublicized Web Services
An adversary searches a targeted web site for web services that have not been publicized. This attack can be especially dangerous since unpublished but available services may not have adequate security controls placed upon them given that an administrator may believe they are unreachable.
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Overview
CAPEC-144 (Detect Unpublicized Web Services) is a detailed-level attack pattern catalogued by MITRE in the Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC). It describes a recurring method attackers use to exploit software weaknesses.
How the attack works
The phases an attacker typically follows to carry out this attack.
- Step 1Explore
[Find target web site] An adversary finds a target web site that they think may have unpublicized web services
- Step 2Explore
[Map the published web site] The adversary will map the published web site either by using an automated tool or by manually accessing well-known debugging or logging pages, or otherwise predictable pages within the site tree
- Use Dirbuster to brute force directories and file names to find unpublicized web services
- Find a pattern in the naming of documents and extrapolate this pattern to discover additional documents that have been created but are no longer externally linked
- Step 3Experiment
[Try to find weaknesses or information] The adversary will try to find weaknesses in the unpublicized services that the targeted site did not intend to be public