Last week, several sources were talking about the indexing of URLs that happen inside supposedly secure and private Skype sessions. There was a bit of press about it and we thought it would be fun to test it out and easy to do with HoneyPoint Personal Edition. Here’s how we did it:
- First, we stood up a HoneyPoint Personal Edition and dilated port 80 with a web listener. We configured it to look like a default under construction page on an IIS box. We then exposed it to the Internet.
- In order to cut down on noise from scanning while we were testing, we decided we would use a target page in our test URL of vixennixie.htm, since scanners aren’t generally looking for that page, if we get scanned while we are testing, it won’t interfere with our data gathering and analysis.
- Next, we created a Skype chat between to members of the team and made sure each of us was configured for full security.
- Once this was confirmed, we passed the URL: http://target_ip/vixennixe.htm between us. The time was 1:13pm Eastern.
- Then, we waited.
- Lo and behold, we got this nearly 12 hours later:
2013-05-22 01:09:45 – HoneyPoint received a probe from 65.52.100.214 on port 80 Input: HEAD /vixennixie.htm HTTP/1.1 Host: target_ip Connection: Keep-Alive
A whois of 65.52.100.214 shows:
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# ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use
# available at: https://www.arin.net/whois_tou.html
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# Query terms are ambiguous. The query is assumed to be:
# “n 65.52.100.214”
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# Use “?” to get help.
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# The following results may also be obtained via:
# http://whois.arin.net/rest/nets;q=65.52.100.214?showDetails=true&showARIN=false&ext=netref2
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NetRange: 65.52.0.0 – 65.55.255.255
CIDR: 65.52.0.0/14
OriginAS:
NetName: MICROSOFT-1BLK
NetHandle: NET-65-52-0-0-1
Parent: NET-65-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Assignment
RegDate: 2001-02-14
Updated: 2012-03-20
Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-65-52-0-0-1
OrgName: Microsoft Corp
OrgId: MSFT
Address: One Microsoft Way
City: Redmond
StateProv: WA
PostalCode: 98052
Country: US
RegDate: 1998-07-10
Updated: 2011-04-26
Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/org/MSFT
OrgNOCHandle: ZM23-ARIN
OrgNOCName: Microsoft Corporation
OrgNOCPhone: +1-425-882-8080
OrgNOCEmail: noc@microsoft.com
OrgNOCRef: http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/ZM23-ARIN
OrgTechHandle: MSFTP-ARIN
OrgTechName: MSFT-POC
OrgTechPhone: +1-425-882-8080
OrgTechEmail: iprrms@microsoft.com
OrgTechRef: http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/MSFTP-ARIN
OrgAbuseHandle: HOTMA-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: Hotmail Abuse
OrgAbusePhone: +1-425-882-8080
OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@hotmail.com
OrgAbuseRef: http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/HOTMA-ARIN
OrgAbuseHandle: ABUSE231-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: Abuse
OrgAbusePhone: +1-425-882-8080
OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@hotmail.com
OrgAbuseRef: http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/ABUSE231-ARIN
OrgAbuseHandle: MSNAB-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: MSN ABUSE
OrgAbusePhone: +1-425-882-8080
OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@msn.com
OrgAbuseRef: http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/MSNAB-ARIN
RTechHandle: ZM23-ARIN
RTechName: Microsoft Corporation
RTechPhone: +1-425-882-8080
RTechEmail: noc@microsoft.com
RTechRef: http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/ZM23-ARIN
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# ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use
# available at: https://www.arin.net/whois_tou.html
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I’ll leave it to the reader to decide what they think about the data. You can draw your own conclusions. We just appreciated yet another use for HoneyPoint and a quick and dirty project to play with. Thanks for reading!