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Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup: Nov. 17, 2017
This is a time of year when many folks in the U.S. reflect on things in their
lives that they are thankful for. There’s also usually a turkey involved, but we
figured we’d pardon the bird
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Thanksgiving_Turkey_Presentation] this
wrapup and just focus on things we Metasploit folks here at Rapid7 are thankful
for.
Community Contributors
We are SUPER THANKFUL for our community contributors
[https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/graphs/contributors] an
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Penetration Testing
Metasploit MinRID Option
We’ve added a new option to the smb_lookupsid Metasploit module
[https://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/auxiliary/scanner/smb/smb_lookupsid]. You can
now specify your starting RID.
Wait, What Does This Module Do Again?
As a penetration tester, one of the first things I try to do on an internal
network is enumerate all of the domain users so that I can perform login attacks
against them. It would be a noteworthy risk if we could do that anonymously,
because that means that any malicious actor who can
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Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup: Nov. 11, 2017
Metasploit kicked November off to a roaring start with a wholesome dose of RCE,
LPE, command injection, DoS, and more fixes/improvements.
So many file choosers…but which one to choose?
Big ups to @RootUP for the DoS module
[https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/9060] targeting a
vulnerability in IBM’s Lotus Notes [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Notes]
client (CVE-2017-1130). The DoS module targets the web interface via malicious
JavaScript (😱). An enterprising ‘sploiter can s
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Metasploit
Testing Developer Security with Metasploit Pro Task Chains
In this modern age, technology continues to make inroads into all sorts of
industries. Everything from smartphones to late-model automobiles to
internet-connected toasters requires software to operate, and this proliferation
of software has brought along gaggles of software developers with their
tools-of-the-trade. All this technology —not to mention the people utilizing it—
can result in an increased attack surface for organizations doing software
development.
In this blog post, we’ll explore
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Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup: Nov. 3, 2017
What’s New?
This week’s release sees multiple improvements and corrections, some years in
the making! We fixed an interesting bug in the initial handshake with
meterpreter that caused some payload callbacks to fail, improved error and
information reporting in other modules, and then @h00die ran spellcheck
[https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/9144/files]!
New (and Improved!) Modules (2 New):
After three years, @wvu’s tnftp aux module grew up to become a strong,
well-rounded explo
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Metasploit
Testing SMB Security with Metasploit Pro Task Chains: Part 2
This is part two of our blog series on testing SMB security with Metasploit Pro.
In the previous post, we explained how to use Metasploit Pro’s Task Chains
feature to audit SMB passwords automatically. Read it here
[/2017/10/31/testing-smb-server-security-with-metasploit-pro-task-chains-part-1/]
if you haven’t already.
In today’s blog post, we will talk about how to use a custom resource script in
a Task Chain to automatically find some publicly-known high-profile
vulnerabilities in SMB. Publi
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Metasploit
Testing SMB Server Security with Metasploit Pro Task Chains: Part 1
A step-by-step guide to testing SMB server security using Metasploit Pro Task Chains.
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Metasploit
Metasploit Wrapup: Oct. 27, 2017
Would you like to help Metasploit Framework and get a free t-shirt?
There is still a bit of October left, which means you can totally still sign up
for Hacktoberfest [https://hacktoberfest.com/]: a fun annual project to
encourage open source software contributions! Make four pull requests on any
open source GitHub project by Oct 31, and you might find yourself some joy and
fulfilment—but at least a free t-shirt.
Check out the Contribute section on the refreshed metasploit.com
[https://metasploi
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Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup: Oct. 20, 2017
Exploits for hours. Gather 'round with a pocket full of shells.
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Metasploit
Metasploit Wrapup: Metasploit 5 or Bust
What's coming down the pipeline for Metasploit? Brent Cook brings you October's first Metasploit wrap-up.
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Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup: Sep. 22, 2017
To celebrate this first day of Autumn[1], we've got a potpourri of "things
Metasploit" for you this week. And it might smell a bit like "pumpkin spice"...
Or it might not. Who knows?
Winter is Coming
If you're looking to finish filling your storehouse before the cold sets in,
we've got a couple of new gatherer modules to help. This new Linux post module
[https://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/post/linux/gather/tor_hiddenservices] can
locate and pull TOR hostname and private key files for TOR hidden
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Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup: Sept. 15, 2017
It's been a hot minute since the last Metasploit Wrapup. So why not take in our
snazzy new Rapid7 blog makeover and catch up on what's been goin' down!
You can't spell 'Struts' without 'trust'
Or perhaps you can! With the all the current news coverage around an Apache
Struts vulnerability from earlier this year
[https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5638] (thanks to its
involvement in a consumer credit reporting agency data breach), there's a new
Struts vuln [https://lgtm.com/
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Metasploit
Metasploit: The New Shiny
It's been a while since I've written a blog post about new stuff in Metasploit
[https://www.rapid7.com/products/metasploit/download/] (and I'm not sure if the
editors will let me top the innuendo of the last one
[/2017/02/09/metasploit-framework-valentines-update/]). But I'm privileged to
announce that I'm speaking about Metasploit twice next month: once at the FSec
17 Conference [http://fsec.foi.hr/] in Varaždīn, Croatia September 7-8, and a
second time at UNITED 2017 [https://unitedsummit.org/
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Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup: August 11, 2017
Slowloris: SMB edition
Taking a page from the Slowloris HTTP DoS attack
[https://web.archive.org/web/20090822001255/http://ha.ckers.org/slowloris/], the
aptly named SMBLoris DoS attack [/2017/08/03/smbloris-what-you-need-to-know]
exploits a vuln contained in many Windows releases (back to Windows 2000) and
also affects Samba (a popular open source SMB implementation). Through creation
of many connections to a target's SMB port, an attacker can exhaust all
available memory on the target by sendi
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Metasploit
Hack with Metasploit: Announcing the UNITED 2017 CTF
Got mad skillz? Want mad skillz? This year at Rapid7's annual UNITED Summit
[https://unitedsummit.org/index.php], we're hosting a first-of-its-kind Capture
the Flag (CTF) competition. Whether you're a noob to hacking or a grizzled pro,
you'll emerge from our 25-hour CTF with more knowledge and serious bragging
rights. Show off your 1337 abilities by competing for top prizes, or learn how
to capture your first ever flag. Read on for details, and if you haven't already
done so, register for UNITED