VoIP penetration testing

Find what a port scan never places.

SIP REGISTER hijacking, RTP eavesdropping, SDP injection, IAX2 brute force, voice-VLAN hopping, Asterisk AMI exposure, and PSTN-trunk toll fraud, tested by hand against your PBX, SBC, and signalling stack. Every finding lands with a recorded call, the replayed media, and the dialplan diff your engineers can ship.

See the VoIP method
Four VoIP planes (SIP, RTP, PBX, SBC) converging on one proof-of-call card. The RTP plane is highlighted as the exploited media path.

Four planes

Signalling · Media · PBX · Edge, one method, four layers of the stack.

Proof of call

Every finding ships with a recorded call, replayed RTP, or a fraudulent toll-out.

Re-test included

We verify your fixes at no extra cost. One engagement, closed loop.

Why now

The window from vulnerability discovery to exploitation has gone from weeks to hours.

Trusted by security teams across Fintech, SaaS & Education, Enterprise & Telecom, Security & Critical Infrastructure

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On record

  • CREST accredited
  • AICPA SOC 2 Type II
  • ISO/IEC 27001

Why an open port isn't a placed call

An open port is not a placed call.

A scanner reports SIP/5060 listening, AMI reachable, SRTP optional. SecureLayer7's operators take it further, register a phantom extension, hijack the next inbound call, decode the RTP stream, and run a fraudulent toll-out across your PSTN trunk. Every finding ships with the recorded call, the replayed media, and the dialplan or SBC diff your team can deploy.

Two columns. Scanner findings on the left escalate to proven exploits on the right: SIP open to REGISTER hijack, SRTP optional to RTP intercept, AMI reachable to PBX takeover, trunk ACL wide to toll fraud.
Two columns. Scanner findings on the left escalate to proven exploits on the right: SIP open to REGISTER hijack, SRTP optional to RTP intercept, AMI reachable to PBX takeover, trunk ACL wide to toll fraud.

IN SCOPE.

What lands in a VoIP engagement.

SIGNALING
SIP + H.323

REGISTER abuse, INVITE flooding, identity spoofing, dial-plan injection, REFER abuse for toll fraud.

MEDIA
RTP + SRTP

RTP injection, eavesdropping where SRTP isn't enforced, codec-conversion abuse on media gateways.

INFRASTRUCTURE
PBX + SBC

Default credentials, admin-interface exposure, trunk-side trust, CDR tampering, voicemail PIN brute force.

INTERCONNECT
Carrier trust

Trunk-side abuse, caller-ID spoofing past STIR/SHAKEN gaps, premium-rate fraud paths, peering trust.

What we test ,

Four planes of the call. One engagement.

Each layer gets a manual, threat-modelled review against its real attack surface, signalling, media, infrastructure, and the trunk edge. Intensity tunes per scope.

Signalling, SIP / SDP

REGISTER hijacking, INVITE flooding, BYE/CANCEL race conditions, SDP rewriting, ALG bypass, digest-auth replay, contact-header rewrite, and presence-leak via SUBSCRIBE/NOTIFY.

Media, RTP / SRTP

RTP eavesdropping, ZRTP/SRTP downgrade, DTMF injection, codec confusion, replay across the media stream, comfort-noise abuse, and media-relay bypass.

Infrastructure, PBX core

Asterisk AMI/CLI exposure, FreeSWITCH event-socket misconfiguration, Cisco CUCM AXL credential leak, dialplan logic abuse, voicemail PIN brute force, IVR fingerprinting and option escape.

Edge, SBC + SIP trunk

SBC peering misconfiguration, voice-VLAN hopping, SIP trunk toll fraud, IAX2 brute force, NAT/ALG traversal abuse, peer-spoofed call replays, and geo-routing rule override.

VOIP METHODOLOGY.

Eight phases. Dial plan to media stream.

Threat-modelled to your dial plan, trunk peering, and PBX topology. Not a template we run against every voice network.

01

Scope & threat-model

Inventory of extensions, trunks, codecs, voicemail, and IVR is agreed before any signalling is touched. In-scope numbers and call windows defined in writing.

02

Recon & enumeration

SIP scanning (svmap, svwar, svcrack), extension enumeration via REGISTER and INVITE responses, codec offer probing, ALG fingerprinting, IAX2 discovery, exposed AMI or HTTP admin.

03

Signalling exploitation

REGISTER hijacking, contact-header rewrite, BYE or CANCEL race, INVITE replay across digest auth, SDP rewriting, dialog-ID prediction, ALG bypass. Exercised to call control.

04

Media exploitation

RTP capture and decode, SRTP or ZRTP downgrade where the offer permits, DTMF injection, codec mismatch leading to garbled-then-replayed audio, comfort-noise abuse.

05

Infrastructure exploitation

Asterisk AMI privilege escalation, FreeSWITCH event-socket abuse, CUCM AXL credential reuse, dialplan injection, voicemail PIN brute force, IVR option escape.

06

Toll-fraud & trunk abuse

Outbound toll fraud across the PSTN trunk, premium-rate dialing, peer-spoofed call replays, geo-routing override. Measured to a billed call.

07

Remediation guidance

Asterisk pjsip.conf snippets, CUCM partition diffs, SBC ACLs, dialplan rewrites, ZRTP-mandatory configurations, AMI or HTTP admin lockdown. Written for voice engineers, not auditors.

08

Patch verification

Every finding re-tested after your team ships the fix, at no extra cost. Written confirmation each call path is closed.

Meet our expert

One lead across signaling and media planes.

John Dill

vCISO at SecureLayer7

15+

Years in offensive security

150+

Engagements led to date

99.99%

On-time engagement delivery

John scopes VoIP and telecom engagements against your dial plan, trunk peering, and PBX topology. He guides the pod from kick-off through final report and re-test.

  • Scopes Asterisk, FreeSWITCH, CUCM, and SBC engagements against your real call paths.
  • Owns kick-off, mid-engagement check-ins, and live walkthrough of every recorded call.
  • Drives remediation review and re-test until every signalling and media finding is closed.
SL7 Lab. Published CVE research.
John Dill, vCISO at SecureLayer7

Ready to scope a VoIP pentest? Book 30 minutes with John to walk through your dial plan, trunk peering, and timeline.

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Tested by industry.

The bug classes named below come from real engagements in each sector. Pick the closest fit.

Retail

Contact-center voice infrastructure, IVR, customer-PII voice paths.

Tech SaaS

SaaS-embedded voice (CCaaS), WebRTC SIP gateways, SBC boundaries.

FinTech

Banking IVR, fraud-team voice infrastructure, recording-and-retention chains.

Built for United Kingdom engagements

What changes when we deliver here.

  • Compliance scoping

    NICC ND 1438 paragraph mapping per VoIP finding

  • Regulatory framework

    UK TSA 2021 Code of Practice signalling-integrity evidence

  • Local engagements

    London CCaaS firm cut toll-fraud risk after SBC pentest

  • Local pricing

    GBP per-SBC-pair fee, fixed at scoping

  • Compliance scoping

    NCSC Conferencing Services guidance mapping for Teams DR

VoIP testing, UK detail.

  • Do you test SBCs from the public side?

    Yes. AudioCodes, Oracle, Ribbon and FreeSWITCH. Toll-fraud, INVITE flood and DTMF-bypass paths — each cited to NICC ND 1438 paragraph.

  • What about Microsoft Teams Direct Routing?

    Yes. Direct Routing SBC, Teams policies and trunk-side abuse. Findings cite NCSC Conferencing Services guidance plus the SBC config control.

  • How does TSA 2021 apply to a UK CCaaS provider?

    Tier-2 or Tier-3 designation drives the scope. Code of Practice paragraphs on signalling integrity and supplier control mapped per finding.

  • Do you cover WebRTC?

    Yes. STUN/TURN, ICE and DTLS-SRTP. JavaScript SDK paths reviewed for token theft and meeting-replay.

Delivery in United Kingdom

VoIP pentest. NICC ND 1438 evidence.

SIP registration, RTP-injection and SBC findings cite NICC ND 1438 and the UK TSA 2021 Code of Practice. Carrier-grade and SMB stacks both covered.

Direct line
+44-20-0000-0000
Office
London, United Kingdom

Frameworks scoped: CREST · NCSC CAF · UK GDPR · PCI DSS · ISO/IEC 27001.

Sample VoIP pentest report, kill-chain · evidence · remediation

Sample engagement report

See what arrives in your inbox.

A pre-vetted sample report: full vulnerability narrative, working proof-of-call, code-level fix guidance for voice engineers. Sent on request after a 5-minute scoping call.