MOHAMMED HUSSAIN

1. UNIX SECURITY andCOMPUTER FORINSICS PRESENTED TO DR.LOA’I AL TAWALBEHNew York Institute of Technology- Amman’s campus-2007 MOHAMMED HUSSAIN

2. An operating system • The OS is a program that acts as an intermediary between the user (application programs) and the hardware resources • OS interacts with hardware and manages programs. • Programs not expected to know which hardware they will run on. Thus they can’t manage their self • OS provides a safe environment for programs to run.

3. What is an Operating System?

4. Unix architecture kernel • Program always resides in memory. • Has direct access to the hardware. • Manages processes, memory, and performs all housekeeping. • Only one copy shared by all users.

5. Shell • A program or command invoked only when the user logs in. so it’s called function from the kernel by command or graphical interface. • At least one shell is invoked by every user, so a system may have several different shells running simultaneously. • Interface between the user and the kernel.

6. UNIX Architecture User Shell which executes the binary: -cp, mv, grep, tar, who, ps Kernel Hardware

7. Interacting with the Shell • The shell prints a prompt and waits for you to type in a command. • The shell can deal with a couple of types of commands: • shell internals - commands that the shell handles directly. • External programs - the shell runs a program for you.

8. Types of commands • External program on disk which could be: • a binary executable (written in C, C++). • a script file (like a shell or perl script). • Internal command of the shell which could be • a builtin (like cd, pwd, etc.) • an alias defined by the user that invokes the disk or internal version in a specific manner.

9. Why security? • Availability • Confidentiality • Integrity (system files)

10. We need to identify the capabilities that UNIX OS handled to perform the levels of security at the low and high level of operating system. • files and directories and the permission are the main compoundant for such a system

11. Ordinary step in any secure OS • PROPLEM • Secure the OS from un wanted users • And to secure the internal processes from each other • SOLUTION • Define specific domain that each user/process can access

12. Domain implementation • Two domain groups • User • Superuser (can do everything, UID=0) • User domain group • Domain = user-id (UID) • Domain switch accomplished via file system. • Each file has associated with it a domain bit (setuid bit = SUID bit). • When file is executed and setuid = on, then effective user-id is set to owner of the file being executed. When execution completes user-id is reset (exit() for child process ).

13. Basic Unix Security Model • User authenticated on logon • User ID associated with process • Default Group ID associated with process • Default Process listed in passwd file • Groups defined in /etc/groups • Set of users listed with each group definition • User can be member of multiple groups

14. Users and permissions • Three types of users • Root super users • Privileged users • Another users • We assign access permissions to such files and directories • ACL

15. Unix Access Control • Three permission octets associated with each file and directory • Owner, group, and other • Read, write, execute • For each file/directory • Can specify RWX permissions for one owner, one group, and one other

16. Other Bits • Set UID and Set GUID bits • When set, the process created by executing file takes on user ID or group ID associated with file • Secure shell (SSH) • Accessing remotely securely. • Sticky bit • On directories, prevents anyone but owner of file removing file in directory • Sys daemon (log files access)

17. Under UNIX directories are special (OS writable only) files. The directory file is an unsorted linked list of filenames to file-inode (attributes and location of file on hard disk) Directory size will always increase to be large enough to hold all the file entries. If the number of files latter shrinks the directory size WILL NOT! Directories > ls -l foo -rw-rw---- 1 hollingd grads 13 Jan 10 23:05 foo size permissions name owner group time

18. Files • Regular Files • binary • GIF, JPEG, Executable etc. • text • scripts, program source code, documentation

19. Files (cont.) • Directory • Can contain ANY kind of files . (Dot)The special name for the current directory. ..(Dot) (Dot)The special name for the directory above the current directory. • Device File • Allows programs to communicate with hardware. • Kernel modules handle device management.

20. File Time Attributes • Time Attributes: • when the file was last changed ls -l • when the file was created* ls -lc • when the file was last read (accessed) ls -ul *actually it’s the time the file status in the directory last changed (e.g. file renamed).

21. File permissions File type - : plain file d : directory c : character device (tty, printer) b : block device (disk, CD-ROM) l : symbolic link s : socket =, p : FIFO Access granted to others -rwxr--r-- Access granted to group member Access granted to owner r : read / w : write / x : execute

22. File Protection • Given the following output from ls –l -rwxr-xr-x jason research ... test.exe ----rwxr–- jason research ... example.exe • jason has full access to test.exe • jason has no access to example.exe even if he belongs to the research group • Any member of the research group (except jason) has full access to example.exe

23. Unix Accounts • To access a Unix system you need to have an account. • Unix account includes: • username and password • userid and groupid • home directory • shell

24. Users accounts 1-User name: a username is (typically) a sequence of alphanumeric characters of length no more than 8. 2-Password: is a secret string that only the user knows, not less that 8 characters. but userID: is a number of 16 bit integer that identifies a user account, and the user don’t know this number but it used to secure the shell.

25. command interpreter home directory “real” name group ID user ID [encrypted password] login name Users and Ownership: /etc/passwd • Every File is owned by one of the system’s users – identity is represented by the user-id (UID) • Password file assoicate UID with system users. gates:x:65:20:B. Gates:/home/gates:/bin/ksh

26. SUID/SGID/sticky bits • SUID (set uid) • Processes are granted access to system resources based on user who owns the file. • SGID (set gid) • (For file) Same with SUID except group is affected. • (For directory) Files created in that directory will have their group set to the directory's group. • sticky bit • If set on a directory, then a user may only delete files that he owns or for which he has explicit write permission granted, even when he has write access to the directory. (e.g. /tmp )

27. Advanced: Access Control Lists The permissions defined by ACLs are a superset of the permissions specified by the filepermission bits. The permissions defined for the file owner correspond to the permissions of the ACL_USER_OBJ entry. The permissions defined for the file group correspond to the permissions of the ACL_GROUP_OBJ entry, if the ACL has no ACL_MASKentry. If the ACL has an ACL_MASK entry, then the permissions defined for the file group correspond to the permissions of the ACL_MASK entry. The permissions defined for the other class correspond to the permissions of the ACL_OTHER_OBJ entry. Modification of the file permission bits results in the modification of the permissions in the associated ACL entries. Modification of the permissions in the ACL entries results in the modification of the file permission bits. Example: user::rw- user:lisa:rw- group::r-- group:toolies:rw- mask::r-- other::r--

28. Log files • Log files are normally kept in /var/log • Read them • Syslog logs the system and what is happening on it • Logcheck is a handy utility which checks the contents of logs and mails anything unusual • http://www.psionic.com/abacus/logcheck/

29. Advanced: TCP/IP Firewalls

30. UNIX and Forensics

31. Privacy Through Media Mutilation Basic enabler: Data is very hard to kill or or or forensically-secure file deletion software (but make sure it works!) degausser

32. Digital evidences are every were in the intended area of work. • It’s in side out side the used space, or impeded into other strings. • Or even on the cell phones • Temp files, print spools, Zipped files, windows registry.

33. But the anti-forensics can play an negative role in the investigation process.

34. Dear Mom, Dropp ed the hamster. D idn’t mean to kill He rbie! Hiding Data in Slack Space w/ bmap: File carving won’t help! pa ssword is frid To Whom It May C oncern: … Best, Fred ay #include <stdio.h> #include <io.h> void zapQ(void); bmap: tools for creating a simple filesystem in slack space

35. 1 Lsof version 4.63 Vic Abell ftp://vic.cc.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof

36. FUNCTIONS • List open files • regular files • directories • device files • executing text file • library (for dynamic load libraries) • network file (socket, NFS file) • stream

37. What Has a Process Opened? % lsof -p 78957 COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME dc 78957 bishop cwd VDIR 3,131077 2560 8482 /usr/home/bishop dc 78957 bishop rtd VDIR 3,131072 512 2 / dc 78957 bishop txt VREG 3,131077 27452 7953 /usr/bin/dc dc 78957 bishop txt VREG 3,131077 71976 992435 /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 dc 78957 bishop txt VREG 3,131077 116092 286210 /usr/lib/libm.so.2 dc 78957 bishop txt VREG 3,131077 531444 287065 /usr/lib/libc.so.4 dc 78957 bishop 0u VCHR 5,2 0t735 8176 /dev/ttyp2 dc 78957 bishop 1u VCHR 5,2 0t735 8176 /dev/ttyp2 dc 78957 bishop 2u VCHR 5,2 0t735 8176 /dev/ttyp2 You can also use –c cmdbegin

38. What Has a User Opened? # lsof +M -u daemon COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME portmap 84 daemon cwd VDIR 3,131072 512 2 / portmap 84 daemon rtd VDIR 3,131072 512 2 / portmap 84 daemon txt VREG 3,131077 11088 64023 /usr/sbin/portmap portmap 84 daemon txt VREG 3,131077 71976 992435 /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 portmap 84 daemon txt VREG 3,131077 24776 287069 /usr/lib/libwrap.so.3 portmap 84 daemon txt VREG 3,131077 531444 287065 /usr/lib/libc.so.4 portmap 84 daemon 0u VCHR 2,2 0t0 7828 /dev/null portmap 84 daemon 1u VCHR 2,2 0t0 7828 /dev/null portmap 84 daemon 2u VCHR 2,2 0t0 7828 /dev/null portmap 84 daemon 3u IPv4 0xc7c6dc00 0t0 UDP *:sunrpc[portmapper] portmap 84 daemon 4u IPv4 0xc7c9ed80 0t0 TCP *:sunrpc[portmapper] (LISTEN) portmapper registration name/number (+M gives this)

45. 2 NMAP Version 3.00 by fyodor@dhp.com http://www.insecure.org/nmap/

46. TO • To scan hosts looking for open ports • TCP connect • TYP SYN (a.k.a. half-open) • TCP FIN (a.k.a. stealth) • TCP SYN/FIN using IP fragments • TCP ftp proxy (a.k.a. bounce attack) • UCP raw ICMP port unreachable • RPC scan • ACK/WIN scan • Ping scan

47. 2 Sleuthkit Linux toolkit for forensics written by Brian Carrier http://www.sleuthkit.org/ Command line tools for forensic analysis under UNIX Graphical interface: Autopsy Forensic Browser

48. Timestamps are often crucial in forensics analysis • Determining who was using a system • Determining if a system has been compromised • Determining when files were downloaded, modified, organized • Establish whether a person could have actually committed a computer crime • Establish validity of alibis • Sleuthkit MAC tools “light up the filesystem” • Idea: • Create a timeline that begins with the date of creation for the first file of interest… • …traces all subsequent file access, modification and creation dates… • Good news: Deleting a file counts as a “modification” and often the deletion dates of files can be retrieved