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My Ultimate Network Monitor/Enumeration Tool – Putting It All Together

By K4Paul January 19, 2014 March 24, 2017 0 Enumeration, Exploit, Fingerprinting, Kali, Linux, Networking, Penetration Testing, Python, Vulnerability Scanner Django, guest network, Python 2.7, Raspberry Pi, Tkinter, Tomato Shibby, VNC, Wifi

Finally, all the parts come together. Look at my previous posts for all the pieces to building the LilDevil network monitor and enumeration tool.

The LilDevil

So this tool I created sits on a Raspberry Pi. Its purpose is to monitor and enumerate all devices currently connected to a network. In this case, it sits on my Guest network. Tomato Shibby is running on my router and I used its web interface to setup the network, along with limiting access. For all guests jointing this network, they are warned by the router’s splash page that tools such as this will be running. Its a free network and they really can’t expect anything different going on. In this case, its not malicious, but it is good practice to be wary of guest networks.

To be less suspicious, the hostname of the Raspberry Pi is RainbowDash 😉 This amuses me so much, the perfect disguise! If I saw a device named LilDevil running on a guest network I would be totally alarmed. I also themed the Pi accordingly, see the below screenshot. The coloring isn’t perfect, I blame VNC.

The Pi runs a Django Restful server that stores mmap scan information about detected machines on the network. The Python 2.7 scripts for this are here. I had to make a few versions in order for things to work on Django 1.6.

In views.py, change

encoded = json.loads(request.raw_post_data)

encoded = json.loads(request.body)

Also, I had to make some changes in dirtBag.py, in order to get the ping sweep to work appropriate.

Change MIN and MAX to an integer instead of a string.

MIN="0"
MAX="12"

MIN=0
MAX=12

Here is a copy of the new main function.

def main():
    global results
    while 1:
        new = ""
        for x in range(MIN,MAX):
            new = new + commands.getoutput("ping -c 1 -t 1 "+PREFIX+"."+str(x) + " | grep 'from'") #Ping sweep the network to find connected devices
        tmp = re.findall(PREFIX+".(d+)", str(new)) #Pull out IP addresses from the ping results
        if tmp != results:
            for ip in tmp:
                if ip not in results:
                    gotcha = commands.getoutput('nmap -v -A -Pn '+PREFIX+'.'+ip)
                    sendDevice(gotcha)
            for r in results:
                if r not in tmp:
                    removeDevice(PREFIX+'.'+r)
            results = tmp

The information is up to date on all devices currently connected. It may be nice in the future to include a log of all scans but for now, I’m really only interested in connected machines.

Data is then displayed in a visible GUI. The below screenshot shows the tool windows along with the GUI. Currently, no devices were connected to the network.

Ahhh it detected a device… in this case, itself.

There you have it! A portable network enumeration tool. There are so many versions of this everywhere, but this is just something I coded up for fun. I plan to add to the Pi later for kicks.

Restricting Bandwidth on Tomato

By K4Paul January 8, 2014 March 23, 2017 9 Networking bandwidth limiter, guest network, Tomato Shibby

This is a shorter post but it’s all part of my latest and greatest project idea which will come together soon!

I dislike guests who over stay their welcome. If they want to use my internet, I don’t mind as long as they don’t go crazy. Earlier, I created a separate guest network and now I want to limit its bandwidth. By limiting this, I limit how much streaming, download, uploading, etc. my guests can do per second. This can all be accomplished in the Bandwidth Limiter section in the tomato web GUI (default 192.168.1.1).

Under the Bandwidth Limiter for LAN, enable the the limiter. This part kind of sucks. My network is setup to include a dedicated bridge for my personal network (br0) and another for my guest network (br1). Your network may be different. In order to limit the guest bridge (br1) I had to set a limit on my personal bridge (br0). I chose to set the limit ridiculously high (300 Mbps) on my personal so as never interfering with my experience. The picture shows my settings below.

For my guests, I cut down their use to 5 Mbs download.

Save it and you did it! This is pretty easy stuff. Just to verify everything, I connected to my guest network and ran a speed test (http://www.speedtest.net).

Nice! Stuff like this makes me feel like…

Tomato Shibby Guest Wireless

By K4Paul January 5, 2014 March 23, 2017 70 Networking guest network, router, Tomato Shibby

I want a guest network to mess around with, I mean what are guests for after all?

What other reasons are there for having a guest network?

Well, say you don’t want to give out the password to your actual home network. You may want to limit activity of guests. You do not want guests to be able to communicate with personal devices on your network. You might have some malicious/untrustworthy friends and you want to keep yourself safe. So many reasons.

Worry not peoples, there is an easy way to set this up on Tomato Shibby and most other new router firmwares! The following steps use the tomato firmware web UI. By default, the UI can be accessed on 192.168.1.1 by a computer connected wirelessly to the router.

First thing is first, a new bridge has to be greater for this guest network. This bridge can be created in the Basic -> Network section under LAN. Simple click ‘Add’ and enter in your desired settings.

The bridge I created (br1), is pictured above. It is set to use IP addresses 192.168.2.2-192.168.2.7 with the router hosting on 192.168.2.1. I’m only allowing up to 6 guests. I don’t want my experience to get bogged down by guests so I limit the amount of addresses available to them hence limiting the number of guests able to connect. Also, I set the lease time for guests to 60 minutes, they don’t need a long lease time. Save your progress.

Sweet, so I now have this bridge. Now I must assign it to a VLAN.

“In computer networking, a single layer-2 network may be partitioned to create multiple distinct broadcast domains, which are mutually isolated so that packets can only pass between them via one or more routers; such a domain is referred to as a virtual local area network, virtual LAN or VLAN” (Wikipedia).

I don’t want guests accessing my stuff, so I will put them on a separate VLAN. Create a VLAN (for me it was 3) and assign the new bridge (br1) to it in Advanced -> VLAN under VLAN.

In my setup above, I’m not expecting guests to connect directly to a port on the router so I did not configure any of them. I expect guests to just connect wirelessly. Save your progress after setting this up.

Now time to set up the wireless SSID for the guests. Go to Advanced -> Virtual Wireless. Add the wl0.1 interface (or whatever one you want to use) and set it to use the new bridge (br1). Give it any SSID you want, I chose to call mine Guest, as seen below. Save it.

You can configure settings for the wireless interface by selecting the coordinating tab (wl0.1) from the top of the page. For instance, you might want to give it security. For now, I gave mine security but I don’t think I’ll keep it. Save it.

Finally, double check all is set correctly in Advanced -> VLAN.

Basically, look to make sure the right bridge is setup to the right wireless interface. Save it.

Next to make sure my guest VLAN users cannot access my private network devices I added a few block forwarding IP table rules. To do this, add the following commands in Administration->Scripts under Firewall:

iptables -P FORWARD DROP
iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o br0 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -i br0 -o eth0 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o br1 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -i br1 -o eth0 -j ACCEPT

These rules first drop all forwarding communications. Following, the next rules set the firewall to allow communications between both bridges and the external world (eth0) only. This way the networks cannot talk to each other but still have internet connectivity. Save and you’re done with the basics!

I went ahead and added a few extra things like a splash page for guests and I also limited their bandwidth activity. I’ll explain how to do this in a later post, this one is too long.