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In Security, the concept of attack-surface (or attack surface) refers to the set of entry points that an attacker can use to access a system or application and carry out an attack. In other words, it is the complete map in which a system or application can be violated. They may include software vulnerabilities, insecure configurations, unauthorized access, open ports, application programming interfaces (APIs), among others. The larger the attack surface of a system or application, the greater the risk that an attacker could exploit a vulnerability and compromise the security of the system.

In Security, the concept of attack-surface (or attack surface) refers to the set of entry points that an attacker can use to access a system or application and carry out an attack. In other words, it is the complete map in which a system or application can be violated. They may include software vulnerabilities, insecure configurations, unauthorized access, open ports, application programming interfaces (APIs), among others. The larger the attack surface of a system or application, the greater the risk that an attacker could exploit a vulnerability and compromise the security of the system.

We have just released a YARA to detect vulnerable images of Acropalypse in scale. We also added a sanitization script to remove extra information from PNG files.

In this second part (part one), we will show a step by step of a security analysis having in mind a basic methodology:
- Perform a passive recognition of the target
- Go through an active recognition
- Identify vulnerabilities coming from an automatic scanning
- Exploit these vulnerabilities
- Wrap up with an executive report

A new year means new opportunities but also new vulnerabilities, and we're hoping 2023 gives rise to some much-needed progress and safer coverage of your infrastructure. Whatever happens, Faraday will be there, providing security, unique reporting options, and invaluable research work 24/7.

Pentesters use a comprehensive and complete toolkit to expose different platforms and evaluate the security of an IT infrastructure. They safely try to exploit vulnerabilities and are experts at reporting failures, data leakage, or other vulnerabilities.
In this post, we present these tools and the several ways they can be applied.