Metasploit modules related to Microsoft Windows Xp Metasploit provides useful information and tools for penetration testers, security researchers, and IDS signature developers. This project was created to provide information on exploit techniques and to create a functional knowledgebase for exploit developers and security professionals. The rpcinfo command makes an RPC call to an RPC server and reports the status of the server. In this case, we are asking metasploitable's RPC server show us all of its RPC problems that are running. (e.g., nfs, mountd, status, portmapper, nlockmgr). Using showmount. Instructions: showmount -e 192.168.1.112; Note(FYI).
We can view some of the advanced options we can trigger for starting the console using the command:
$ msfconsole -h
Quiet start
$ msfconsole -q
Check that we've connected to the database
> db_status
msf5 uses postgresql.
Rock ‘em to the Core [commands]
Base command for searching
> search
Select module as active
> use
View information about either a specific module or just the active one we have selected
> info
Built-in netcat-like function where we can make a quick connection with a host simply to verify that we can ‘talk' to it
> connect Sjcam mac download images to my.
Change the value of a variable
> set
Change the value of a variable globally
> setg
View the value of a variable
> get
View the value of a global variable
> getg
Change the value of a variable to null/no value
> unset
Set our console output to save to a file
> spool
Use to store the settings/active datastores from Metasploit to a settings file; this will save within your msf4 (or msf5) directory and can be undone easily by simply removing the created settings file.
> save
Modules for Every Occasion!
Exploit module holds all of the exploit code we will usePayload module contains the various bits of shellcode we send to have executed following exploitationAuxilliary module is most commonly used in scanning and verification machines are exploitablePost module provides looting and pivoting capabilitiesEncoder module allows us to modify the ‘appearance' of our exploit such that we may avoid signature detection (commonly utilized in payload obfuscation)NOP module is used with buffer overflow and ROP attacks
Not every module is loaded in by default, what command can we use to load different modules?
> load
Move that shell!
Metasploit comes with a built-in way to run nmap and feed it's results directly into our database. Let's run that now by using the command ‘db_nmap -sV '
> db_nmap -sV 10.10.42.242
List discovered vulnerabilities
> vulns
We're in, now what?
What command do we use to transfer ourselves into the process? This won't work at the current time as we don't have sufficient privileges but we can still try!
migrate
What command can we run to find out more information regarding the current user running the process we are in?
getuid
How about finding more information out about the system itself?
sysinfo
How do you load mimikatz?
load kiwi
Find current user priviledges
getprivs
What command do we run to transfer files to our victim computer?
upload
How about if we want to run a Metasploit module?
run
What command do we run to figure out the networking information and interfaces on our victim?
ipconfig
Let's run the command run post/windows/gather/checkvm. This will determine if we're in a VM, a very useful piece of knowledge for further pivoting.Next, let's try: run post/multi/recon/local_exploit_suggester. This will check for various exploits which we can run within our session to elevate our privileges. Finally, let's try forcing RDP to be available. This won't work since we aren't administrators, however, this is a fun command to know about: run post/windows/manage/enable_rdp
What command can we run in our meterpreter session to spawn a normal system shell?
shell
Makin' Cisco
Let's go ahead and run the command run autoroute -h, this will pull up the help menu for autoroute. What command do we run to add a route to the following subnet: 172.18.1.0/24? Use the -n flag in your answer.
run autoroute -s 172.18.1.0 -n 255.255.255.0
Additionally, we can start a socks4a proxy server out of this session. Background our current meterpreter session and run the command search server/socks4a. What is the full path to the socks4a auxiliary module?
auxiliary/server/socks4a
Once we've started a socks server we can modify our /etc/proxychains.conf file to include our new server. What command do we prefix our commands (outside of Metasploit) to run them through our socks4a server with proxychains?
proxychains
Summary:
This is Frequently Asked Questions document about new, recently patched RPC vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The document describes related Trojan and worm malware as well.
It is worth of noticing that code execution type vulnerabilities in Office programs are widely used to industrial espionage since 2006. This time the exploitation represents the use of non-Office vulnerabilities and e-mail attack vector is not used.
Update: After the weekend the malware analyses shows that the Trojan has designed to steal credential information and to collect a botnet-like network.
Q: What is the recent Microsoft Window RPC vulnerability disclosed in October?
A: This vulnerability is caused by an error when processing malformed RPC (Remote Procedure Call) requests. The issue was disclosed by the vendor after active exploitation of the vulnerability.
Q: How does the vulnerability mentioned works?
A: The vulnerability is code execution type vulnerability. Attacker successfully exploiting this vulnerability can run code of his or hers choice in the affected machine.
This vulnerability is caused due to overflow when handling malformed RPC requests. This enables executing arbitrary code of the attacker. Technically the vulnerability exists in the Server service.
Q: When this vulnerability was found?
A: The exact information is not available. Information about upcoming security update was announced on 22nd October, but this vulnerability has been used in targeted attacks at least two weeks already. The exploitation disclosed the existence of vulnerability.
Q: What is the mechanism in exploitation?
A: Information was not disclosed, but during the exploitation malicious executables are being downloaded and executed from the remote Web site.
Q: Is the exploit code of this vulnerability publicly released?
A: Yes. On Friday 24th October the proof of concept code was released on a blog of security researcher and on public, moderated security mailing list. The PoC has been released at several well-known exploit and security community Web sites too. Metasploit module has been released too (link). PoC's work against Windows XP SP2, Windows XP SP3 and Windows 2003 Server SP2 machines.
Q: Which Windows versions are affected?
A: Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 2003 Server and Windows Server 2008 systems are affected.
Q: I am using the 7 Pre-Beta version of Windows, is my operating system affected?
A: According to the Microsoft it is affected too. An update is available (see MS08-067).
Q: I am a home user, is it possible to update my system in a normal way via Microsoft Update?
A: Yes, visiting the Microsoft Update Web site at http://update.microsoft.com/ will update the system against the exploitation of the vulnerability. If the Automatic Updates is enabled the system will be updated automatically without user's actions.
Q: Where are the official Microsoft documents related to this case located?
A: The official Security Bulletin MS08-067, entitled Vulnerability in Server Service Could Allow Remote Code Execution (958644) has been released at Microsoft TechNet Security section:
www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-067.mspx
Updated information released by the vendor has been covered at MSRC Blog (The Microsoft Security Response Center Blog). The address of the blog is blogs.technet.com/msrc/.
File information of the MS08-067 security update has been released at separate Knowledge Base document #958644: support.microsoft.com/kb/958644.
Microsoft Security Advisory #958963 released to notify the availability of the security update is located at
www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/958963.mspx
Q: What the term ‘out-of-band' means?
A: Normally Microsoft releases security updates once a month, at the second Tuesday of the every month. Very rarely, during the Windows ANI vulnerability etc. the security update will come out outside of this regular update cycle. Out-of-band and out-of-cycle describe the situation when waiting the regular update Tuesday, so-called Patch Tuesday is not enough to protect Windows systems against exploitation.
The next security updates will be released on Tuesday 11th November.
Update:
Q: Is this a new Slammer worm?
A: No, due to new security features included to SP2 etc. However, on 3rd Nov it was reported about the worm exploiting this vulnerability.
Q: Are there any workarounds available? Our organization is making tests with the patch still.
A: The security bulletin lists the following workarounds:
-Disable the Server and Computer Browser services
-Block TCP ports 139 and 445 at the firewall
Q: Is there Snort rules for this vulnerability available?
A: Yes. Additional details can be obtained at
www.snort.org/vrt/advisories/vrt-rules-2008-10-23.html
known as a ruleset against Microsoft DCE/RPC remote code execution attempts.
The download address is www.snort.org/pub-bin/downloads.cgi
(to paying Sourcefire customers)
Emerging Threats project has released new signatures too, details at
http://www.emergingthreats.net/index.php/component/content/article/17-sigs/125-weekly-new-signatures-october-25-2008.html
Q: What is the situation of Nessus plugins related to this vulnerability?
A: Nessus Plugin ID #34476 has been released. More information is available at
www.nessus.org/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=34476
Q: What are the target organizations etc. of this vulnerability?
A: This information is not available and probably it will never go public. Microsoft has confirmed that fever than 100 organizations are targeted in targeted attacks.
Q: Is there information about file sizes used during the attacks?
A: Yes. The size is 397,312 bytes.
Update: The size can be anything between 49,152 and 417,792 bytes.
Q: How the user can notify the infection?
A: It is reported that the command prompt will appear.
Q: What are the names of malwares exploiting this vulnerability?
A: There are reports about a data collecting Trojan (Gimmiv.A) and a Trojan searching for non-patched machines on LAN (Arpoc.A).
The following names are being used (listed in alphabetical order):
AhnLab – Dropper/Gimmiv.397312 since 2008.10.24.04
Authentium – W32/Gimmiv.A since 23rd Oct
Avira – TR/Dldr.Agent.gcx since 24th Oct, iVDF 7.00.07.81
Bitdefender – Win32.Worm.Gimmiv.A since since 23rd Oct
– dropper detected as Win32.Worm.Gimmiv.B
CA – Win32/Gimmiv.A since eTrust 31.6.6167
ClamAV – Trojan.Gimmiv since 8524
– Trojan.Gimmiv-1…Trojan.Gimmiv-7 since 8526
Dr.Web – DLOADER.PWS.Trojan since 23rd Oct
Eset – Win32/Gimmiv.A since 24th Oct, v.3551
– Win32/Spy.Gimmiv, Win32/Spy.Gimmiv.A since v.3553
– Win32/Spy.Gimmiv.B since v.3555
Fortinet – W32/Gimmiv.A!tr.spy
– name change: W32/Gimmiv.A!worm since 9.676
F-Secure – Trojan-Spy:W32/Gimmiv.A since 2008-10-24_01
– Trojan-Spy:W32/Gimmiv.B since 2008-10-24_05
– Trojan-Spy:W32/Gimmiv.C, D, E, F variants since 2008-10-24_08
– Net-Worm.Win32.Gimmiv.a since 25th Oct 2008-10-25_01
McAfee – PWS.y!C91DA1B9 since DAT5413
– Spy-Agent.da since 23rd Oct, DAT5414, its DLL component detected as Spy-Agent.da.dll
Microsoft – TrojanSpy:Win32/Gimmiv.A[.dll] since 23rd Oct
– since 24th Oct update 1.4005 included signatures
– exploit: Exploit:Win32/MS08067.gen!A
Kaspersky – Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent.alce since 24th Oct, 7.0.0.125
Panda Security – detected as ‘Suspicious file' since 23rd Oct, 9.0.0.4
– Gimmiv.A since 24th Oct
PCTools – Trojan-Spy.Gimmiv.A
Prevx – detected as ‘Cloaked Malware‘
Rising – Trojan.Spy.Win32.Undef.z since 23rd Oct, 21.00.32.00
Sophos – Sus/Dropper-A since 21st Aug (based to heuristic techniques)
– additionally Troj/Gimmiv-A, IDEs since 4.34.0,
– Troj/Gimmiv-Gen since 4th Nov
Symantec – Infostealer since 23rd Oct
– name change: Trojan.Gimmiv.A since 24th Oct, rev. 024
– malicious files detected as Bloodhound.Exploit.212
Trend Micro – WORM_GIMMIV.A since 5.617.00
– TSPY_GIMMIV.A since 5.617.00
where '2008.10.24.04' states that these virus signatures or newer include a protection for the malware.
Best Metasploit Exploits
Alias names CVE-2008-4250, W32.Slugin.A and W32/NetAPI32.RPC!exploit.M20084250 are in use too.
Update: Added Arpoc section:
BitDefender – Win32.Worm.Gimmiv.B
CA – Win32/Gimmiv.B since 31.6.6172
Dr.Web – Win32.HLLW.Jimmy.3 since unknown signatures
McAfee – Spy-Agent.da since DAT5414, its DLL component detected as Spy-Agent.da.dll
Update: Added RPC worm section:
AntiVir – TR/Expl.MS08-067.G
BitDefender – Trojan.Downloader.Shelcod.A
ClamAV – Exploit.MS08-067 since 8566
Eset – Win32/Exploit.MS08-067.B, C and D since 3576
F-Secure – worm component as Exploit.Win32.MS08-067.g
– kernel component as Rootkit.Win32.KernelBot.dg
Ikarus – Virus.Exploit.Win32.MS08.067.g
Kaspersky – Exploit.Win32.MS08-067.g since 31th Oct
McAfee – kernel component as KerBot!37E73FFB since DAT5422
Microsoft – Exploit:Win32/MS08067.gen!A
– Trojan:Win32/Wecorl.A
– Trojan:Win32/Wecorl.B
Norman – kernel component as w32/agent.jbvo
Prevx – Worm.KernelBot
Sophos – Mal/Generic-A
– Exp/MS08067-A since 4th Nov
Symantec – W32.Wecorl since 3rd Nov (latest daily certified version) rev. 052
– W32.Kernelbot.A since 3rd Nov (latest daily certified version) rev. 041
Trend Micro – WORM_KERBOT.A since 5.637.00
– WORM_WECORL.A since 5.640.05
Q: What kind of payload this Trojan horse has?
A: This is what the Trojan gathers (according to Microsoft's document):
*User Name
*Computer Name
*Network Adapters / IP Addresses
*Installed com objects
*Installed programs and installed patches
*Recently opened documents
*Outlook Express and MSN Messenger credentials
*Protected Storage credentials
Q: What kind of Trojan has attacked to the targeted organizations?
A: It is a very sophisticated and dangerous Trojan. It encrypts the data with AES and deletes itself after its operations. Before sending the gathered data to the attacker it reports the AV software of the installation (from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWARE) as a parameter (BitDefender, Jiangmin, Kingsoft, Kaspersky, Microsoft OneCare, Rising and Trend Micro).
Q: Are there any changes to Windows registry or the file system made by this malware?
A: The following registry key is being modified:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicessysmgr
The display name of the service being generated is System Maintenance Service.
The malicious files are being copied to System32wbem folder including basesvc.dll, syicon.dll, winbase.dll and winbaseInst.exe. NOTE: After being executed the Trojan deletes these files and itself.
Update: According to Arbor Networks the file C:Documents and SettingsLocalServiceLocal SettingsTemporary Internet Filesmacnabi.log is being dropped too.
Q: Now I know that my anti-virus software can report computers in my organizations as clean because the Trojan has deleted itself from the system. What are the malicious executables that I can search them and examine logs etc.?
A: There are several names and all of the files has same size mentioned earlier, i.e. 397,312 bytes.
Update: According to McAfee the size varies from 49,152 to 417,792 bytes.
The most common file name is N2.exe. However, file names Nx.exe are widely spreading as well; [x] represents a number from 1 through 9.
The MD5 hash of the one specific N2.exe file in the wild on 23rd Oct is f173007fbd8e2190af3be7837acd70a4.
Update: To list one more the MD5 hash of n5.exe is 24cd978da62cff8370b83c26e134ff4c.
Prevx database knows the following file names too:
15197927.EXE, 00003106.EXE, NVIR/N2.EXE, 18912604.EXE, 54800477.DAT
The format of the file can be NVIR/N3.EXE etc. too.
Q: What type of network connections these malware make?
A: Gimmiv.A sends an ICMP Echo Request packet to multiple IP addresses including the string 'abcde12345fghij6789'.
Q: How can I recognize malicious files spreading RPC worm (Exploit.Win32.MS08-067.g)?
A: The files names reported in the wild are 6767.exe and KernekDbg.exe.
Q: What is the size of these files?
A: The size are various, but many of them are 16,384 bytes long.
Q: What kind of network connections the worm makes and are there any modifications made to Windows registry?
A: It connects to robot.10wrj.com, ls.cc86.info, ls.lenovowireless.net and ls.playswomen.com. Yes, the worm will add the new value to HKLMSOFTWARELicenses and HKLMSOFTWAREGoogle.
Q: Are there any changes to Windows HOSTS file?
A: Yes, the lines
127.0.0.1 dnl-cn1.kaspersky-labs.com
127.0.0.1 alert.rising.com.cn
127.0.0.1 www.mcafee.com
will be added yo the HOSTS file.
Q: Is there CVE name available to this issue?
A: Yes. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has released the following CVE candidate CVE-2008-4250:
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4250
Q: What is the CVSS severity of this vulnerability?
A: The CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) score is 10.0 (High).
Q: Is there a CWE class assigned?
A: The CWE (Common Weakness Enumeration) ID of the vulnerability, in turn, is #119, i.e. Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of an Allocated Memory Buffer class:
cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/119.html
Q: Is there a CME name available?
A: No. The Common Malware Enumeration (CME) project has not assigned an identifier for these malware.
Q: When exploiting this RPC vulnerability is the authentication needed?
A: On Windows 2000, XP, and Windows Server 2003 systems arbitrary code can be run without authentication. On Vista systems the authentication is needed.
Q: What is the vulnerable component?
A: It is netapi32.dll (Net Win32 API DLL). On Windows 2000 SP4 the non-affected version is 5.0.2195.7203, on Windows XP SP3 5.1.2600.5694 and on Vista SP1 there are several 6.0.6000.xxxx versions, see KB958644 for details. The vulnerable Windows API call is NetPathCanonicalize(), in turn.
Secunia has renamed its vulnerability advisory to Windows Path canonicalisation vulnerability. It states that processing directory traversal character sequences in path names enables to send drafted RPC requests to the Server Service.
(c) Juha-Matti Laurio, Finland (UTC +2hrs)
The author has released several Microsoft Office 0-day vulnerability FAQ documents, e.g.
blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/759
and Windows Vector Markup Language vulnerability FAQ's
blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/640
since 2006.
Revision History:
1.0 25-10-2008 Initial release
1.1 26-10-2008 Updated document and some minor fixes
1.2 26-10-2008 Major updates to Trojan section, added credits, information of non-affected dll versions and Snort rule reference
1.3 27-10-2008 Added information about the various file names and sizes, a separate Arpoc section and Nessus plugin reference and [UPDATED] to the title
1.4 27-10-2008 Several virus description release dates and ID's added, updated the summary to clarify the characteristics of the exploitation
1.5 28-10-2008 Added Microsoft Security Advisory #958963 link
1.6 29-10-2008 Added names to Arpoc Trojan section
1.7 03-11-2008 Updated the exploit/PoC section and added information about the worm exploiting the vulnerability
1.8 04-11-2008 Added names to RPC worm section, updated the summary
1.9 05-11-2008 Added information about Windows HOSTS file modification and new worm names
Msrpc Vulnerabilities Metasploit
Credits: Microsoft, AV vendors, Prevx Malware Center
