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Snoopy: A distributed tracking and data interception framework

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                                               V0.1  
"Amy, technology isn't intrinsically good or evil. It's how it's used. Like the Death Ray."
-Professor Farnsworth

Welcome to Snoopy; a distributed tracking and profiling framework. Snoopy is a work in progress, so please feel free to submit suggestions and/or corrections. This document outlines basic usage. To understand the background a little more, have a look at the following:

  • Snoopy: A distributed tracking and profiling framework
  • ZaCon4 - Glenn Wilkinson - Terrorism, tracking, privacy and human interactions
  1. INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW ============================= Snoopy consists of four components:
  • Client software (aka Snoopy Drone software)
  • Server software
  • Web interface
  • Maltego transforms

a. Snoopy Drones

The client side software runs on what we call "Drones". A Drone can be any Linux based device that has a WiFi interface (with injection drivers) and outbound internet connectivity. Snoopy has been tested on a Nokia N900 and a laptop running BackTrack. The Drones perform the following two operations:

  1. Collect Probe SSIDs from nearby wireless devices
  2. Offer a Rogue Access Point for nearby wireless devices to connect to

Collected probe requests (e.g. Bob's iPhone looking for BTHomeHub-4123) are uploaded to the Snoopy server at regular intervals. All devices that associate to the Rogue AP have have their Internet served via the Snoopy Server.

b. Server Software

The server populates all probe requests into a database, and uses Wigle to determine GPS coordinates, and Google Maps to determine street addresses (and street view photographs). This means that if you're probing for your home network, I may get a photograph of your house.

Each Drone connects to the server over OpenVPN, and has its own subnet. Associated clients receive an IP address from the Drone, and route traffic via it. This means that on the server we can match client IP addresses (and therefore MAC addresses) to internet activity.

On the server, the following happens:

  • Internet traffic is transparently proxied through Squid, which logs all requests to MySQL
  • SSLStrip attempts to rewrite webpages without HTTPS
  • mitmproxy.py allows arbitrary injection into web pages
  • Various scripts run to extract Social Media data (e.g. pulling Facebook profiles)

The network diagram looks like so:

     Client1                        Drone1                                  Snoopy Server
    +----------+            +-----------------------+               +-----------------------+
    |    wlan0-|<---WiFi--->|-at0                   |               |                   eth0|<-squid-sslstrip-mitmproxy->Internet
    |          |    |       | 10.2.0.1              |               |            11.22.33.44|    |
    | dhclient |    |       |                       |               |                       |    Traffic inspection
    |          |    |       |                  tap0-|<-openvpn----->|-tap0                  |    Social media analysis
    +----------+    |       |          192.168.42.2 |           +--/| 192.168.42.1          |
    10.2.0.2        |       +-----------------------+           |   +-----------------------+
                    |                                           |
                    |                                           | route 10.2.0.0 via 192.168.42.2
                    |                                           | route 10.3.0.0 via 192.168.42.3
      Client2       |                                           |
    +----------+    |                                           |
    |    wlan0-|<---+                                           |
    |          |                                                |
    | dhclient |                                                |
    |          |                                                |
    +----------+                                                |
    10.2.0.3                                                    |
                                                                |
                                                                |
                                                                |
      Client3                       Drone2                      |      
    +----------+            +-----------------------+           |
    |    wlan0-|<---WiFi--->|-at0                   |           |
    |          |    |       | 10.3.0.1              |           |
    | dhclient |    |       |                       |           |
    |          |    |       |                  tap0-|<-openvpn--+
    +----------+    |       |          192.168.42.3 |       
    10.3.0.2        |       +-----------------------+       
                    |
                    |       
                    |
      Client4       |                                       
    +----------+    |                                       
    |    wlan0-|<---+                                       
    |          |                                            
    | dhclient |                                            
    |          |                                            
    +----------+
    10.3.0.3

c. The Web Interface

Walter wrote a web interface for Snoopy. It can be accessed from http://your-snoopy-server.com:5000/

d. Maltego Transforms

Several Maltego transforms exist to graphically explore collected data (see below for more info).

  1. INSTALLATION ================ Server installation should be straight forward. It's only been tested on a stock install of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 32bit. Changes are made to several server components, so it's highly recommended to run the install script on a base installation, and not run much else on that box (if anything). If in doubt, go through the install.sh file and manually make the changes. Otherwise, just run (./install.sh) the installer.

  2. USAGE ======== Once installation is finished you should just be able to type 'snoopy' for the server menu to load. If not (or in doubt) go to the home directory of the user created during the installation phase. Inside the 'snoopy/server/' directory there is a 'snoopy.sh' file which you may run. Below is the menu:

     +---------------------------------------------------------------+
     |                    Welcome to Snoopy V0.1                     |
     |                        SERVER SIDE                            |
     |                                                               |
     |              SensePost Information Security                   |
     |         [email protected] / www.sensepost.com            |
     +---------------------------------------------------------------+
     Date: Thu Nov  1 16:37:08 CET 2012
     Snoopy Server Status: Stopped
     Connected Drones: 0
     Wigle User: setYourWigleAccount
    
     Would you like to:
     [1] (Re)Start Snoopy server components
     [2] Stop Snoopy server components
     [3] Manage drone configuration packs
     [4] Configure server options
     [5] Set web traffic injection string
     [6] Observe logs
     [X] Exit
    
     [?] Help
    
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