WHO AM I? And My Experiments with Hacking?

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Hey Everyone i hope you all are doing great. Nowadays, every other college or school student wants to be a hacker. Due to media hype, the term hacker is considered both cool and criminal at the same time. Now, since This Note is basically about my journey into hacking, I receive many emails on how to become a hacker. “I’m a beginner in hacking, how should I start?” or “I want to be able to hack my friend’s Facebook account” are some of the more frequent queries. In this article I will attempt to answer these and more. I will give detailed technical instructions on how to get started as a beginner and how to evolve as you gain more knowledge and expertise in the domain. Hacking is a skill. And you must remember that if you want to learn hacking solely for the fun of hacking into your friend’s Facebook account or email, things will not work out for you. You should decide to learn hacking because of your fascination for technology and your desire to be an expert in computer systems.

Introduction!

My Name is Muhammad Khizer Javed And I’m 19 Years Old, Currently Studying in 2nd Year ICS & Living in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Where It All Began!?

I came to Know about the word Hacking about 3 Years a Go when a Friend of mine learned How to perform Phishing Attack and Successfully Takeover My Facebook account & I was like WoW How he did that   so After Getting my account back I started to search Google about Hacking….. But At that Time all i need to learn is “HOW TO HACK A FACEBOOK ACCOUNT” So the only thing i was searching on Google was About FB Hacking ( Nothing else ) Then after successfully wastig about a week I learned that trick and Started to HACK Facebook accounts by posting scam links in forums, Emails, Messages, Groups, Anonymous chats etc ( ALL SORT OF SHIT ), Then one day i was searching on Facebook about Hacking when I found a Guy named Mr.Anon (And Now He is One of My best friends) I posted a Comment on his post Highlighting an Issue about something (Please Don’t Disclosed That   If You still remember that) he took a screenshot of that and Posted on his profile & I saw many people laughing at me  and I was like WTF I can do that stuff Myself so I created a New Facebook account with anonymous Name & Started sending request to the friends of Mr.Anon And after 3-4 Days I got 5000 People in My Friend List And I know Nothing about Them…. Then some of them started Tagging me in their Facebook Posts Like ( Hacked By Team Indi shell, team PCA & Team bla bla bla….) I stared Talking to them about how they do that and Why? etc And In no time I learned 2 Ninja Tricks for Hacking & Defacing Websites…
  1. Using site:.in index.php?id=1 ‘
  2. Going to a Mirror Website Like Zone-h and take a Website from their and Scanning it finding the existing shell or Finding the Vulnerability in it and Exploit it

 

After some days, I Successfully hacked 20-30 website and Defaced them  But I was not having Fun in it so I again started googling and After some time I learned to find vulnerable sites from some advanced Google Dorks & Then Exploiting them By Tools like Sqlmap, & I also learned a Little about Manual SQL inj, Shelling Compromising Cpanels etc  And After that i get to know about symlink, server jumping, a little about rooting etc… I don’t wanna Mention Many things…… But I have to say It was Fun…………..

I’ve had my good share of Hats. Black, white or sometimes a blackish shade of grey. The darker it gets, the more fun you have. -MakMan

Changing The Color of my HAT!

If you’re not familiar with the concept of Hats in hacking, you’re probably at the wrong place!
One day i saw that some former Black Hat Hacker Mainly Shawar Khan, Ahsan Tahir were Getting Swag Packs & $$ From Companies & Earning some Good Reputation and All i was doing is Defacing Websites & Posting About them on My Facebook , So I Contacted Both of them they Helped me through Guiding me What actually they were Doing and What are the benefits  They also Refer me Some Links to Read about White Hat Hacking… I first followed the basic guideline and Reported 2-3 Bugs In Website ( even when I don’t Know what The Bug can do and what problem is causing the issue ) First i got rewarded a T-Shirt and Then some Amazon Gift Cards 20$, 40$ etc The More I try the More I learned and Started to understand the Problems……..
In August 2016 I Created an Account on Bugcrowd.com Under Username #MuhammadKhizerJaved and Submitted My First Bug report on 2016-08-03 ( That Report is Still Open & I’m sure it’s Dup )
Well After Getting No reply I started to search More About Bugs that were New Back Then & I Reported 4 More Issues all of Them Went Duplicate as those were Easy to Look for On August 17 I got an Email from Bugcrowd about New private Program Invite
I was Like WTF! is this I opened The E-mail accepted the Invite and When I saw the Scope I was like Naaaa… That’s something I can’t test, But i saw some POC’s About Subdomain Takeover So I scanned all the subdomains of that Program and Found Many Of the subdomains were Vulnerable to Subdomain Takeover(List)
So I made a POC and Send them Without taking over The Subdomain as I was unaware of the process and in no time i Got the response!
and the Reward was!
So! Basically Without Knowing what actually happening at the end, i GOT My First Reward that was way more than expected  After That I become addicted To BugBounty Hunting & I started to Hunt More and More for Bugs, The first bug i understand was Cross Site Scripting(XSS) ( I will follow up The Learning process under this Note ) and After reading Some More Articles & Books, I learned Quite Few Bugs Like ( XSS, CSRF,SQLi,LFI,RCE,SSRF,Open redirect, DLL hijacking, Clickjacking etc etc …. )
after learning Process…. I started to Look for XSS issue and Found One in #Bugcrowd itself  Check Out The POC
Video! POC

From Time to Time I was receiving Bounties and I was happy with It. and I made an Account on Hackerone.com on and started to hunt Their as well and got some Good Bounties From Their To….

My Most Recent Bounty On HackerOne was……

LEARN ETHICAL HACKING

Well I think its Enough of The Introduction and Story Line Now Lets get straight to The point “How To Become a BugBounty Hunter/WhiteHat…….”

“Being a hacker is lots of fun, but it’s a kind of fun that takes lots of effort. The effort takes motivation.”

I receive Many Messages Daily about teaching me, Hack this for me, How to earn etc……. So Basically i’m Writing this for All of You Guys Who Wanna Learn Bug Bounty hunting… i’ll Attach couple of books, References, Blogs, YouTube Channels & Other Material Hope That will Help all Of You who wanna Learn
First of all I want you guys to Read The article by Eric Raymond http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html It has become the de-facto standard guideline for aspiring hackers………. As Mentioned In This Article
One of The Most Important Thing You Need to Have If You want Become a Hacker is Attitude!
To be a hacker, you have to develop some of these attitudes. But copping an attitude alone won’t make you a hacker, any more than it will make you a champion athlete or a rock star. Becoming a hacker will take intelligence, practice, dedication, and hard work.
Therefore, you have to learn to distrust attitude and respect competence of every kind. Hackers won’t let posers waste their time, but they worship competence — especially competence at hacking, but competence at anything is valued. Competence at demanding skills that few can master is especially good, and competence at demanding skills that involve mental acuteness, craft, and concentration is best.
If you revere competence, you’ll enjoy developing it in yourself — the hard work and dedication will become a kind of intense play rather than drudgery. That attitude is vital to becoming a hacker.

Resources!

Basically What I’m sharing here is a Collection of Different Books About Penetration testing & Reverse Engineering That I have Picked, Along with Some Blogs Links, & YouTube Channels
These are the Important Books to Read Otherwise You can look for more books on these topics
Also  For Those Who Want something Related to Reverse Engineering Follow this Google Drive
So These were Some Important Books Which I shared With you Guys

BLOGS!

Lets Get Towards Blogs!
There are Plenty of Blogs Shared By Hackers on Daily Basis That You can read to learn More and More……….
These are some Of the Websites That I like to Visit regularly to b updated and Read Their Articles………. There are Plenty of Other Blogs, Websites That are Missing from This List so be sure to add them In Comments

YouTube Channels!

Now Lets get Towards YouTube Channel Links… These Channels are Shared By Hackers where They Upload their Video POCs.. Watching them u can actually understand how to demonstrate these type of attacks …
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP…
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ…
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR…
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY…
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw…
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa…
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt…
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5…
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM…
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_…
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq…
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV…
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs…
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa…
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP…
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX…
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4…
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs…
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo…
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy…
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS…
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO…
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh…
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo…
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9…
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe…
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2…
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP…
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz…
Any Channel Link Missing? Kindly add it in Comments
Another advice…… Regularly follow http://h1.nobbd.de/ to b updated with HackerOne Public Bug reports You can learn alot from them, Follow https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Cat…
Alternatively You can Join Slack Community for Hackers
https://bugbounty-world.slack.com/
https://bugbountyforum.com/
Also You should Consider practicing Your Skills on
http://www.itsecgames.com/
http://www.dvwa.co.uk/

HackerOne Public Reports! 

These Reports might help you guys to get some indepth idea of BugBounty hunting..

Bug Bounty Reference

A list of bug bounty write-up that is categorized by the bug nature, Written by ngalongc this is inspired by https://github.com/djadmin/awesome-bug-bounty

My intention is to make a full and complete list of common vulnerability that are publicly disclosed bug bounty write-up, and let Bug Bounty Hunter to use this page as a reference when they want to gain some insight for a particular kind of vulnerability during Bug Hunting, feel free to submit pull request. Okay, enough for chit-chatting, let’s get started.

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Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Brute Force

SQL Injection

Stealing Access Token

Google oauth bypass

CSRF

Remote Code Execution

Deserialization

Image Tragick

Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR)

XXE

Unrestricted File Upload

Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

Race Condition

Business Logic Flaw

Authentication Bypass

HTTP Header Injection

Subdomain Takeover

Author Write Up

XSSI

Email Related

Money Stealing

2017 Local File Inclusion

Miscellaneous

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Here’s A list of some Attacks Topics that You Should do some research and read the Blogs/ reports on them

[+] Sql Injection Attack
[+] Hibernate Query Language Injection
[+] Direct OS Code Injection
[+] XML Entity Injection
[+] Broken Authentication and Session Management

[+] Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
[+] Insecure Direct Object References
[+] Missing Function Level Access Control
[+] Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
[+] Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
[+] Unvalidated Redirects and Forwards
[+] ClickJacking Attacks
[+] DNS Cache Poisoning
[+] Symlinking – An Insider Attack
[+] Remote Code Execution Attacks
[+] Remote File inclusion
[+] Local file inclusion
[+] EverCookie
[+] Denial oF Service Attack
[+] Cookie Eviction
[+] PHPwn
[+] NAT Pinning
[+] XSHM
[+] MitM DNS Rebinding SSL/TLS Wildcards and
[+] Quick Proxy Detection
[+] Improving HTTPS Side Channel Attacks
[+] Side Channel Attacks in SSL
[+] Turning XSS into Clickjacking
[+] Bypassing CSRF protections with Click
Jacking and
[+] HTTP Parameter Pollution
[+] URL Hijacking
[+] Stroke Jacking
[+] Fooling B64_Encode(Payload) on WAFs And

[+] MySQL Stacked Queries with SQL Injection.
[+] Posting Raw XML cross-domain
[+] Generic Cross-Browser Cross-Domain theft
[+] Attacking HTTPS with Cache Injection
[+] Tap Jacking
[+] XSS – Track
[+] Next Generation Click Jacking
[+] XSSing Client-Side Dynamic HTML.
[+] Stroke triggered XSS and Stroke Jacking
[+] Lost iN Translation
[+] Persistent Cross Interface Attacks
[+] Chronofeit Phishing
[+] SQLi Filter Evasion Cheat Sheet (MySQL)
[+] Tabnabbing
[+] UI Redressing
[+] Cookie Poisoning
[+] SSRF
[+] Bruteforce of PHPSESSID
[+] Blended Threats and JavaScript
[+] Cross-Site Port Attacks
[+] CAPTCHA Re-Riding Attack

*Web Application Attacks List :*
[+] Arbitrary file access
[+] Binary planting
[+] Blind SQL Injection
[+] Blind XPath Injection
[+] Brute force attack
[+] Buffer overflow attack
[+] Cache Poisoning
[+] Cash Overflow
[+] Clickjacking
[+] Command injection attacks
[+] Comment Injection Attack
[+] Content Security Policy
[+] Content Spoofing
[+] Credential stuffing
[+] Cross Frame Scripting
[+] Cross Site History Manipulation (XSHM)
[+] Cross Site Tracing
[+] Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
[+] Cross Site Port Attack (XSPA)
[+] Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
[+] Cross-User Defacement
[+] Custom Special Character Injection
[+] Denial of Service
[+] Direct Dynamic Code Evaluation (‘Eval Injection’)
[+] Execution After Redirect (EAR)
[+] Exploitation of CORS
[+] Forced browsing
[+] Form action hijacking
[+] Format string attack
[+] Full Path Disclosure
[+] Function Injection
[+] Host Header injection
[+] HTTP Response Splitting
[+] HTTP verb tampering
[+] HTML injection
[+] LDAP injection
[+] Log Injection
[+] Man-in-the-browser attack
[+] Man-in-the-middle attack
[+] Mobile code: invoking untrusted mobile code
[+] Mobile code: non-final public field
[+] Mobile code: object hijack
[+] One-Click Attack
[+] Parameter Delimiter
[+] Page takeover
[+] Path Traversal
[+] Reflected DOM Injection
[+] Regular expression Denial of Service – ReDoS
[+] Repudiation Attack
[+] Resource Injection
[+] Server-Side Includes (SSI) Injection
[+] Session fixation
[+] Session hijacking attack
[+] Session Prediction
[+] Setting Manipulation
[+] Special Element Injection
[+] SMTP injection
[+] SQL Injection
[+] SSI injection
[+] Traffic flood
[+] Web Parameter Tampering
[+] XPATH Injection
[+] XSRF or SSRF

Following form a recent Blog post from My Friend Arbaz Hussain I’m Sharing out “10 rules of Bug Bounty”
  1. Targeting the Bug Bounty Program
  2. How do you Approach the Target ?
  3. Don’t Expect Anything !
  4. Less Knowledge about Vulnerabilities and Testing Methodologies :
  5. Surround yourself with Bug Bounty Community to keep yourself Updated.
  6. AUTOMATION
  7. GET BOUNTY or GET EXPERIENCE:
  8. FIND THE “BUG” or FIND A “BUG’S CHAIN”:
  9. FOLLOW MASTER’S PATH:
  10. RELAX & ENJOY LIFE:
If You want to Learn about these Steps In Details Follow Up the link
https://medium.com/@arbazhussain/10-rules-of-bug-bounty-65082473ab8c

Tools to Focus and Learn about their Uses!

Adding a List of Tools that i use on daily basis for recon and other Purposes during Bug Hunting
dnscan https://github.com/rbsec/dnscan
Knockpy https://github.com/guelfoweb/knock
Sublist3r https://github.com/aboul3la/Sublist3r
massdns https://github.com/blechschmidt/massdns
nmap https://nmap.org
masscan https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan
EyeWitness https://github.com/ChrisTruncer/EyeWitness
DirBuster https://sourceforge.net/projects/dirbuster/
dirsearch https://github.com/maurosoria/dirsearch
Gitrob https://github.com/michenriksen/gitrob
git-secrets https://github.com/awslabs/git-secrets
sandcastle https://github.com/yasinS/sandcastle
bucket_finder https://digi.ninja/projects/bucket_finder.php
GoogD0rker https://github.com/ZephrFish/GoogD0rker/
Wayback Machine https://web.archive.org
waybackurls https://gist.github.com/mhmdiaa/adf6bff70142e5091792841d4b372050
Sn1per https://github.com/1N3/Sn1per/
XRay https://github.com/evilsocket/xray
wfuzz https://github.com/xmendez/wfuzz/
patator https://github.com/lanjelot/patator
datasploit https://github.com/DataSploit/datasploit
hydra https://github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-hydra
changeme https://github.com/ztgrace/changeme
MobSF https://github.com/MobSF/Mobile-Security-Framework-MobSF/
Apktool https://github.com/iBotPeaches/Apktool
dex2jar https://sourceforge.net/projects/dex2jar/
sqlmap http://sqlmap.org/
oxml_xxe https://github.com/BuffaloWill/oxml_xxe/
XXE Injector https://github.com/enjoiz/XXEinjector
The JSON Web Token Toolkit https://github.com/ticarpi/jwt_tool
ground-control https://github.com/jobertabma/ground-control
ssrfDetector https://github.com/JacobReynolds/ssrfDetector
LFISuit https://github.com/D35m0nd142/LFISuite
GitTools https://github.com/internetwache/GitTools
dvcs-ripper https://github.com/kost/dvcs-ripper
tko-subs https://github.com/anshumanbh/tko-subs
HostileSubBruteforcer https://github.com/nahamsec/HostileSubBruteforcer
Race the Web https://github.com/insp3ctre/race-the-web
ysoserial https://github.com/GoSecure/ysoserial
PHPGGC https://github.com/ambionics/phpggc
CORStest https://github.com/RUB-NDS/CORStest
retire-js https://github.com/RetireJS/retire.js
getsploit https://github.com/vulnersCom/getsploit
Findsploit https://github.com/1N3/Findsploit
bfac https://github.com/mazen160/bfac
WPScan https://wpscan.org/
CMSMap https://github.com/Dionach/CMSmap
Any Important Tool Missing? Comment please 🙂

Final Note!

Being a security researcher, it is really tough to keep yourself up to date. I’d ask the beginners to focus on self study and learn things by themselves as everything is possible all you need is the passion of taking a step after that you can achieve anything. Nothing is impossible to achieve. All i achieved was by doing self-study and self motivation and without any certifications. You are never a perfect person, but you are still better then the rest of the people. For being a security researcher, all it takes is the passion to achieve something. I hope this article helped you motivate to take a positive step in life..
Well That’s All I can Share With you Guys For Now i’ll Make sure to Keep this Article Updated for More People to read  

 

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