Powershell Exec, Reverse HTTPS Stager with Support for Custom Proxy - Metasploit


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Module Overview

Name: Powershell Exec, Reverse HTTPS Stager with Support for Custom Proxy
Module: payload/cmd/windows/powershell/meterpreter/reverse_https_proxy
Source code: modules/payloads/adapters/cmd/windows/powershell.rb
Disclosure date: -
Last modification time: 2022-05-27 16:41:25 +0000
Supported architecture(s): cmd
Supported platform(s): Windows
Target service / protocol: -
Target network port(s): -
List of CVEs: -

Execute an x86 payload from a command via PowerShell. Tunnel communication over HTTP using SSL with custom proxy support

Module Ranking and Traits

Module Ranking:

  • normal: The exploit is otherwise reliable, but depends on a specific version and can't (or doesn't) reliably autodetect. More information about ranking can be found here.

Basic Usage

msf > use payload/cmd/windows/powershell/meterpreter/reverse_https_proxy
msf payload(reverse_https_proxy) > show options
    ... show and set options ...
msf payload(reverse_https_proxy) > generate

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Msfconsole Usage

Here is how the cmd/windows/powershell/meterpreter/reverse_https_proxy payload module looks in the msfconsole:

msf6 > use payload/cmd/windows/powershell/meterpreter/reverse_https_proxy

msf6 payload(cmd/windows/powershell/meterpreter/reverse_https_proxy) > show info

       Name: Powershell Exec, Reverse HTTPS Stager with Support for Custom Proxy
     Module: payload/cmd/windows/powershell/meterpreter/reverse_https_proxy
   Platform: Windows
       Arch: cmd
Needs Admin: No
 Total size: 4355
       Rank: Normal

Provided by:
  Spencer McIntyre
  skape <[email protected]>
  sf <[email protected]>
  OJ Reeves
  hdm <[email protected]>
  corelanc0d3r <[email protected]>
  amaloteaux <[email protected]>

Basic options:
Name           Current Setting  Required  Description
----           ---------------  --------  -----------
EXITFUNC       process          yes       Exit technique (Accepted: '', seh, thread, process, none)
HttpProxyHost                   no        An optional proxy server IP address or hostname
HttpProxyPass                   no        An optional proxy server password Max parameter length: 63 characters
HttpProxyPort                   no        An optional proxy server port
HttpProxyType  HTTP             yes       The type of HTTP proxy (Accepted: HTTP, SOCKS)
HttpProxyUser                   no        An optional proxy server username Max parameter length: 63 characters
LHOST          127.0.0.1        no        The local listener hostname
LPORT          8443             no        The local listener port
LURI                            no        The HTTP Path

Description:
  Execute an x86 payload from a command via PowerShell. Tunnel 
  communication over HTTP using SSL with custom proxy support

Module Options

This is a complete list of options available in the cmd/windows/powershell/meterpreter/reverse_https_proxy payload:

msf6 payload(cmd/windows/powershell/meterpreter/reverse_https_proxy) > show options

Module options (payload/cmd/windows/powershell/meterpreter/reverse_https_proxy):

   Name           Current Setting  Required  Description
   ----           ---------------  --------  -----------
   EXITFUNC       process          yes       Exit technique (Accepted: '', seh, thread, process, none)
   HttpProxyHost                   no        An optional proxy server IP address or hostname
   HttpProxyPass                   no        An optional proxy server password Max parameter length: 63 characters
   HttpProxyPort                   no        An optional proxy server port
   HttpProxyType  HTTP             yes       The type of HTTP proxy (Accepted: HTTP, SOCKS)
   HttpProxyUser                   no        An optional proxy server username Max parameter length: 63 characters
   LHOST          127.0.0.1        no        The local listener hostname
   LPORT          8443             no        The local listener port
   LURI                            no        The HTTP Path

Advanced Options

Here is a complete list of advanced options supported by the cmd/windows/powershell/meterpreter/reverse_https_proxy payload:

msf6 payload(cmd/windows/powershell/meterpreter/reverse_https_proxy) > show advanced

Module advanced options (payload/cmd/windows/powershell/meterpreter/reverse_https_proxy):

   Name                                 Current Setting                      Required  Description
   ----                                 ---------------                      --------  -----------
   AutoLoadStdapi                       true                                 yes       Automatically load the Stdapi extension
   AutoRunScript                                                             no        A script to run automatically on session creation.
   AutoSystemInfo                       true                                 yes       Automatically capture system information on initialization.
   AutoUnhookProcess                    false                                yes       Automatically load the unhook extension and unhook the process
   AutoVerifySessionTimeout             30                                   no        Timeout period to wait for session validation to occur, in secon
                                                                                       ds
   EnableStageEncoding                  false                                no        Encode the second stage payload
   EnableUnicodeEncoding                false                                yes       Automatically encode UTF-8 strings as hexadecimal
   HandlerSSLCert                                                            no        Path to a SSL certificate in unified PEM format, ignored for HTT
                                                                                       P transports
   HttpServerName                       Apache                               no        The server header that the handler will send in response to requ
                                                                                       ests
   HttpUnknownRequestResponse           <html><body><h1>It works!</h1></bod  no        The returned HTML response body when the handler receives a requ
                                        y></html>                                      est that is not from a payload
   HttpUserAgent                        Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64  no        The user-agent that the payload should use for communication Max
                                        ; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, l             parameter length: 255 characters
                                        ike Gecko) Chrome/98.0.4758.81 Safa
                                        ri/537.36 Edg/97.0.1072.69
   IgnoreUnknownPayloads                false                                no        Whether to drop connections from payloads using unknown UUIDs
   InitialAutoRunScript                                                      no        An initial script to run on session creation (before AutoRunScri
                                                                                       pt)
   MeterpreterDebugBuild                false                                no        Use a debug version of Meterpreter
   MeterpreterDebugLogging                                                   no        The Meterpreter debug logging configuration, see https://github.
                                                                                       com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/wiki/Meterpreter-Debugging-Meter
                                                                                       preter-Sessions
   OverrideLHOST                                                             no        When OverrideRequestHost is set, use this value as the host name
                                                                                        for secondary requests
   OverrideLPORT                                                             no        When OverrideRequestHost is set, use this value as the port numb
                                                                                       er for secondary requests
   OverrideRequestHost                  false                                no        Forces a specific host and port instead of using what the client
                                                                                        requests, defaults to LHOST:LPORT
   OverrideScheme                                                            no        When OverrideRequestHost is set, use this value as the scheme fo
                                                                                       r secondary requests, e.g http or https
   PayloadProcessCommandLine                                                 no        The displayed command line that will be used by the payload
   PayloadUUIDName                                                           no        A human-friendly name to reference this unique payload (requires
                                                                                        tracking)
   PayloadUUIDRaw                                                            no        A hex string representing the raw 8-byte PUID value for the UUID
   PayloadUUIDSeed                                                           no        A string to use when generating the payload UUID (deterministic)
   PayloadUUIDTracking                  false                                yes       Whether or not to automatically register generated UUIDs
   PingbackRetries                      0                                    yes       How many additional successful pingbacks
   PingbackSleep                        30                                   yes       Time (in seconds) to sleep between pingbacks
   Powershell::encode_final_payload     false                                yes       Encode final payload for -EncodedCommand
   Powershell::encode_inner_payload     false                                yes       Encode inner payload for -EncodedCommand
   Powershell::exec_in_place            false                                yes       Produce PSH without executable wrapper
   Powershell::exec_rc4                 false                                yes       Encrypt PSH with RC4
   Powershell::method                   reflection                           yes       Payload delivery method (Accepted: net, reflection, old, msil)
   Powershell::no_equals                false                                yes       Pad base64 until no "=" remains
   Powershell::noninteractive           true                                 yes       Execute powershell without interaction
   Powershell::persist                  false                                yes       Run the payload in a loop
   Powershell::prepend_protections_byp  auto                                 yes       Prepend AMSI/SBL bypass (Accepted: auto, true, false)
   ass
   Powershell::prepend_sleep                                                 no        Prepend seconds of sleep
   Powershell::remove_comspec           false                                yes       Produce script calling powershell directly
   Powershell::strip_comments           true                                 yes       Strip comments
   Powershell::strip_whitespace         false                                yes       Strip whitespace
   Powershell::sub_funcs                false                                yes       Substitute function names
   Powershell::sub_vars                 true                                 yes       Substitute variable names
   Powershell::wrap_double_quotes       true                                 yes       Wraps the -Command argument in single quotes
   PrependMigrate                       false                                yes       Spawns and runs shellcode in new process
   PrependMigrateProc                                                        no        Process to spawn and run shellcode in
   ReverseAllowProxy                    false                                yes       Allow reverse tcp even with Proxies specified. Connect back will
                                                                                        NOT go through proxy but directly to LHOST
   ReverseListenerBindAddress                                                no        The specific IP address to bind to on the local system
   ReverseListenerBindPort                                                   no        The port to bind to on the local system if different from LPORT
   ReverseListenerComm                                                       no        The specific communication channel to use for this listener
   SessionCommunicationTimeout          300                                  no        The number of seconds of no activity before this session should
                                                                                       be killed
   SessionExpirationTimeout             604800                               no        The number of seconds before this session should be forcibly shu
                                                                                       t down
   SessionRetryTotal                    3600                                 no        Number of seconds try reconnecting for on network failure
   SessionRetryWait                     10                                   no        Number of seconds to wait between reconnect attempts
   StageEncoder                                                              no        Encoder to use if EnableStageEncoding is set
   StageEncoderSaveRegisters                                                 no        Additional registers to preserve in the staged payload if Enable
                                                                                       StageEncoding is set
   StageEncodingFallback                true                                 no        Fallback to no encoding if the selected StageEncoder is not comp
                                                                                       atible
   VERBOSE                              false                                no        Enable detailed status messages
   WORKSPACE                                                                 no        Specify the workspace for this module

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References

See Also

Check also the following modules related to this module:

Authors

  • Spencer McIntyre
  • skape
  • sf
  • OJ Reeves
  • hdm
  • corelanc0d3r <peter.ve[at]corelan.be>
  • amaloteaux

Version

This page has been produced using Metasploit Framework version 6.2.29-dev. For more modules, visit the Metasploit Module Library.

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