A Visit from the Spirits of HaXmas Past
In this blog, Brent Cook takes a walk down memory lane of blogs of HaXmas past.…
Metasploit Wrap-Up
It’s beginning to look a lot like HaXmas, everywhere you go! We have a great selection of gift-wrapped modules this holiday season, sure to have you entertained from one to eight nights, depending on your preference! On a personal note, we here at the…
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Powershell Express Delivery The web_delivery module is often used to deliver a payload during post exploitation by quickly firing up a local web server. Since it does not write anything on target’s disk, payloads are less likely to be caught by anti-virus protections.…
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Management delegation of shells Onur ER contributed the Ajenti auth username command injection exploit module for the vulnerability Jeremy Brown discovered and published a PoC for on 2019-10-13 (EDB 47497) against Ajenti version 2.1.31. Ajenti is an open-source web-based server admin panel written…
Discovering a New Path in Asset Discovery: A Q&A with Metasploit Founder HD Moore
In honor of the 10-year anniversary of Rapid7’s acquisition of Metasploit, our latest episode of Security Nation features an interview with its founder, HD Moore.…
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Payload payday As we blogged about yesterday, a new form of payload that is compiled directly from C when generated was added by space-7. We hope this is only the first step in a journey of applying the myriad tools that obfuscate C programs to…
Metasploit Shellcode Grows Up: Encrypted and Authenticated C Shells
Introducing encrypted, compiled payloads in Metasploit Framework 5…
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Pulse Secure VPN exploit modules, a notable BlueKeep exploit reliability improvement, and an overhaul of MSF's password cracking integration, including new support for hashcat.…
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Config R Us Many versions of network management tool rConfig are vulnerable to unauthenticated command injection, and contributor bcoles added a new exploit module for targeting those versions. Present in v3.9.2 and prior, this vulnerability centers around the install directory not being automatically…
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This week's Metasploit wrap-up ships a new exploit module against Nostromo, a directory traversal vulnerability that allows system commands to be executed remotely. Also, improvements have been made for the grub_creds module for better post exploitation experience against Unix-like machines. Plus a few bugs…
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Is URGENT/11 urgent to your world? Metasploit now has a scanner module to help find the systems that need URGENT attention. Be sure to check the options on this one; RPORTS is a list to test multiple services on each target. Thanks Ben Seri…
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Nagios XI post module Nagios XI may store the credentials of the hosts it monitors, and with the new post module by Cale Smith, we're now able to extract the Nagios database content along with its SSH keys and dump them into the MSF database.…
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Exploiting Windows tools There are two new Windows modules this week, both brought to you by the Metasploit team. The Windows Silent Process Exit Persistence module, from our own bwatters-r7, exploits a Windows tool that allows for debugging a specified process on exit. With escalated…
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Command and Control with DOUBLEPULSAR We now have a DOUBLEPULSAR exploit module thanks to some amazing work by our own wvu, Jacob Robles, and some significant contributions from the wider community. The module allows you to check for the DOUBLEPULSAR implant, disable it, or even…
Open-Source Command and Control of the DOUBLEPULSAR Implant
Metasploit researcher William Vu shares technical analysis behind a recent addition to Framework: a module that executes a Metasploit payload against the Equation Group's DOUBLEPULSAR implant for SMB and allows users to remotely disable the implant.…
