building tests for agent

[zyronix]

• How easy is it to test against a real server?
• Built tests for Hashcat cracking flow
• Keyspace
• Benchmark
• Real cracking
• Setup Windows devcontainer
• Allow to run real hashcat on windows
• Allow to debug unittest
• Test windows download cracker
• Test windows keyspace
• Test windows benchmark
• Test windows cracking

Required test cases

• Test with worlist/rules '-a0'
• Test with space -a3
• Test runtime benchmark
• Test with prince
• Test with prince and rules and speedbenchmark
• Test preprocessor windows
• Test with brain
• Test Agent upgrade
• Test file with 7z
• Test file with 7z windows

Discussion:

• How can we crack passwords containing spaces with bruteforce in the attack command?

[zyronix]

Solution to test against real server:

Temp fix:

• Test against APIv2 (for creating tasks etc, not implementing user api).
• Create instructions how to run the tests

Final solution:

• User API Python module in separate module
• Github actions flow:
• Git clone agent code
• Git clone server code
• Git clone python-module code
• Start devcontainerserver
• Start devcontainer agent
• Run tests against the real server

[zyronix]

Regarding devcontainer for windows development based on the nanoserver image for example. This does not seem to be possible: microsoft/vscode-remote-release#445

Possible workaround:
Install OpenSSH into the container; connect with remote-ssh to the container.

Setup notes:

• Install Container Feature and Hyper-V feature
• Right click on the Docker Desktop, select 'Switch to Windows containers'
• Start container in powershell with: docker run -it mcr.microsoft.com/windows-cssc/python3.7nanoserver:ltsc2022 cmd.exe

[zyronix]

Test with space -a3, this is a kinda special case. On the CLI you normally do this through quotes. For example:

./crackers/1/hashcat.bin -a3 -m0 4061727a2162d43085a7444fad8464c4 ?l?l?l" "l?l
But quotes are escaped.

[zyronix]

Note: usePrince is already broken. As it is deprecated and replace with preprocessorCmds I am not investing time in fixing this.

[zyronix]

Note: no test needed for upgrade. No paths are involved here.

[zyronix]

Will be solved in hashtopolis/agent-python#36