Practical Industrial Control System Penetration Testing

Examine how open source intelligence and osint techniques uncover default credentials in industrial control systems, highlighting vendor patterns, password risks, and the need for regular password changes.

Explore Shodan, a search engine for IoT and control systems, to locate exposed PLC devices, perform banner grabbing, and search for protocols like Modbus and S7 Comm on port 102.

Scan the public IP range with Shodan using the net filter to identify exposed Siemens controllers and ports like Telnet and SSH; banner grabbing reveals module coding and firmware version.

Download Ubuntu desktop, create a VirtualBox VM with 8 GB RAM and 25 GB disk, bridge the network, install VirtualBox guest additions, and complete the initial Ubuntu server setup.

Set up Kali Linux for ICS testing by configuring bridged networking, enabling clipboard, and German keyboard, then run a script to install open-source pentesting tools and Modbus Pal.

Explore onboard Kali Linux and open source pen testing tools for industrial control systems, and practice scanning targets with Nmap and testing exploits on simulated controllers.

Boot Ubuntu server PLC VM and Kali Linux VM, open terminal, run run.sh to spawn honeypots, then switch to Kali Linux and practice sudo with tool name, IP, and port.

Explore enumeration with snmp-check to extract device information from SNMP on UDP port 161, gathering vendor, model, firmware, and serial data to support ICS pentesting.

Search Shodan for exposed Siemens PLC devices using port 102, then extend the search with the vendor to identify the product series and model numbers.

Search port 102 for the S7 protocol hosts with shodan; banner grabbing shows product details for Siemens and Symantec devices, and including cpu type digits refines the results.

Filter the Excel spreadsheet for Siemens and perform a Google Docs search with the terms to locate publicly exposed devices as part of practical industrial control system penetration testing.

We scan tcp ports 1 to 65535 and udp port 16100 with nmap, skipping host discovery. The com port remains undetected and snmp on udp 16100 is not detected.

Perform an SNMP enumeration using the SNMP check tool against port 16,100 to identify SNMP servers and gather information about the target.

Advance your pen testing skills by using the Nmap scripting engine in Kompot and integrating external exploits into Metasploit, after verifying your Mac address matches the course materials.

Explore scanning port 102 with the Nmap scripting engine, using --script to run a chosen NSE script, and locate suitable S7 scripts for Siemens devices in the Nmap share.

Navigate to the PLC scan folder, display its contents, and run the legacy plc scan script with the target IP using Python 2 to pull information from the target.

Use open source tools to run PLC scan and Siemens level two discovery, extracting device details and manipulating outputs or CPU state on a target PLC.

Explore the gas station inventory controller's communication interface on port 10,001 using Shodan to count online devices. Analyze device function code 201 00 to determine exposed units.

Kick off a practical industrial control system pentest by launching Ubuntu Server and Kali Linux in a VM, starting gas station controller emulation, and performing ssh-based IP and NAT discovery.

Examine open port 10001 with Nmap, specify the target IP and port, and start the Nmap scripting engine; explore gas station inventory systems (ATG) and related Nmap scripts.

Demonstrate using nmap NSE scripts to locate and run a specific ATG info script, scan a target IP and port, and interpret returned controller function data, with honeypot detection.

Explore lab-based penetration testing of exposed Schneider Electric devices using Shodan and Google Docs, boot Ubuntu Server and Kali Linux virtual machines, and perform Modbus port 5020 testing with netdiscover.

Examine an IP address with Nmap, start with XPN, skip host discovery, specify the destination IP, and use dash P to set the target port range for a tcp scan.

Run modbus metasploit modules against the target to detect modbus operation, identify the station number via unit id, and banner grabbing, noting other modules fail on the honeypot.

Start the modbus simulation on Kali Linux, add a modbus device and holding registers, run the modbus server, then discover your IP with ifconfig and scan the port with nmap.

Launch the Metasploit framework, load Modbus modules, and identify whether Modbus is running on the target and determine the target's unit ID.

Explore using a metasploit modbus module to detect modbus tcp targets, set the host IP, check unit IDs, and read or manipulate PLC registers, with a future command line alternative.

Read memory blocks solution demonstrates reading the first ten memory blocks by setting a starting address with percent zero followed by a ten, directly accessing memory content from blocks 0–10.