Windows shellcode stage, Windows Reverse HTTPS Stager (winhttp) - Metasploit
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Module Overview
Name: Windows shellcode stage, Windows Reverse HTTPS Stager (winhttp)
Module: payload/windows/custom/reverse_winhttps
Source code: modules/payloads/stagers/windows/reverse_winhttps.rb
Disclosure date: -
Last modification time: 2020-09-22 02:56:51 +0000
Supported architecture(s): x86
Supported platform(s): Windows
Target service / protocol: -
Target network port(s): -
List of CVEs: -
Custom shellcode stage. Tunnel communication over HTTPS (Windows winhttp)
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/windows/custom/reverse_winhttps
msf payload(reverse_winhttps) > show options
... show and set options ...
msf payload(reverse_winhttps) > generate
To learn how to generate payload/windows/custom/reverse_winhttps with msfvenom, please read this.
Required Options
- LHOST: The local listener hostname
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Msfconsole Usage
Here is how the windows/custom/reverse_winhttps payload module looks in the msfconsole:
msf6 > use payload/windows/custom/reverse_winhttps
msf6 payload(windows/custom/reverse_winhttps) > show info
Name: Windows shellcode stage, Windows Reverse HTTPS Stager (winhttp)
Module: payload/windows/custom/reverse_winhttps
Platform: Windows
Arch: x86
Needs Admin: No
Total size: 781
Rank: Normal
Provided by:
bwatters-r7
hdm <[email protected]>
Borja Merino <[email protected]>
Basic options:
Name Current Setting Required Description
---- --------------- -------- -----------
EXITFUNC process yes Exit technique (Accepted: '', seh, thread, process, none)
LHOST yes The local listener hostname
LPORT 8443 yes The local listener port
LURI no The HTTP Path
SHELLCODE_FILE no Shellcode bin to launch
Description:
Custom shellcode stage. Tunnel communication over HTTPS (Windows
winhttp)
Module Options
This is a complete list of options available in the windows/custom/reverse_winhttps payload:
msf6 payload(windows/custom/reverse_winhttps) > show options
Module options (payload/windows/custom/reverse_winhttps):
Name Current Setting Required Description
---- --------------- -------- -----------
EXITFUNC process yes Exit technique (Accepted: '', seh, thread, process, none)
LHOST yes The local listener hostname
LPORT 8443 yes The local listener port
LURI no The HTTP Path
SHELLCODE_FILE no Shellcode bin to launch
Advanced Options
Here is a complete list of advanced options supported by the windows/custom/reverse_winhttps payload:
msf6 payload(windows/custom/reverse_winhttps) > show advanced
Module advanced options (payload/windows/custom/reverse_winhttps):
Name Current Setting Required Description
---- --------------- -------- -----------
EnableStageEncoding false no Encode the second stage payload
HandlerSSLCert no Path to a SSL certificate in unified PEM format
HttpCookie no An optional value to use for the Cookie HTTP header
HttpHostHeader no An optional value to use for the Host HTTP header
HttpProxyHost no An optional proxy server IP address or hostname
HttpProxyIE true no Enable use of IE proxy settings
HttpProxyPass no An optional proxy server password Max parameter length: 63 charact
ers
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 charact
ers
HttpReferer no An optional value to use for the Referer HTTP header
HttpServerName Apache no The server header that the handler will send in response to reques
ts
HttpUnknownRequestResponse <html><body><h1>It works!</h1></body no The returned HTML response body when the handler receives a reques
></html> t that is not from a payload
HttpUserAgent Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS no The user-agent that the payload should use for communication Max p
X 12.2; rv:97.0) Gecko/20100101 Fir arameter length: 255 characters
efox/97.0
IgnoreUnknownPayloads false no Whether to drop connections from payloads using unknown UUIDs
OverrideLHOST no When OverrideRequestHost is set, use this value as the host name f
or secondary requests
OverrideLPORT no When OverrideRequestHost is set, use this value as the port number
for secondary requests
OverrideRequestHost false no Forces a specific host and port instead of using what the client r
equests, defaults to LHOST:LPORT
OverrideScheme no When OverrideRequestHost is set, use this value as the scheme for
secondary requests, e.g http or https
PayloadUUIDName no A human-friendly name to reference this unique payload (requires t
racking)
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
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 N
OT 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
SSLVersion Auto yes Specify the version of SSL/TLS to be used (Auto, TLS and SSL23 are
auto-negotiate) (Accepted: Auto, TLS, SSL23, SSL3, TLS1, TLS1.1,
TLS1.2)
StageEncoder no Encoder to use if EnableStageEncoding is set
StageEncoderSaveRegisters no Additional registers to preserve in the staged payload if EnableSt
ageEncoding is set
StageEncodingFallback true no Fallback to no encoding if the selected StageEncoder is not compat
ible
StagerRetryCount 10 no The number of times the stager should retry if the first connect f
ails
StagerRetryWait 5 no Number of seconds to wait for the stager between reconnect attempt
s
StagerURILength no The URI length for the stager (at least 5 bytes)
StagerVerifySSLCert false no Whether to verify the SSL certificate hash in the handler
VERBOSE false no Enable detailed status messages
WORKSPACE no Specify the workspace for this module
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See Also
Check also the following modules related to this module:
- payload/windows/custom/bind_hidden_ipknock_tcp
- payload/windows/custom/bind_hidden_tcp
- payload/windows/custom/bind_ipv6_tcp
- payload/windows/custom/bind_ipv6_tcp_uuid
- payload/windows/custom/bind_named_pipe
- payload/windows/custom/bind_nonx_tcp
- payload/windows/custom/bind_tcp
- payload/windows/custom/bind_tcp_rc4
- payload/windows/custom/bind_tcp_uuid
- payload/windows/custom/find_tag
- payload/windows/custom/reverse_hop_http
- payload/windows/custom/reverse_http
- payload/windows/custom/reverse_http_proxy_pstore
- payload/windows/custom/reverse_https
- payload/windows/custom/reverse_https_proxy
- payload/windows/custom/reverse_ipv6_tcp
- payload/windows/custom/reverse_named_pipe
- payload/windows/custom/reverse_nonx_tcp
- payload/windows/custom/reverse_ord_tcp
- payload/windows/custom/reverse_tcp
- payload/windows/custom/reverse_tcp_allports
- payload/windows/custom/reverse_tcp_dns
- payload/windows/custom/reverse_tcp_rc4
- payload/windows/custom/reverse_tcp_rc4_dns
- payload/windows/custom/reverse_tcp_uuid
- payload/windows/custom/reverse_udp
- payload/windows/custom/reverse_winhttp
Authors
- bwatters-r7
- hdm
- Borja Merino <bmerinofe[at]gmail.com>
Version
This page has been produced using Metasploit Framework version 6.2.23-dev. For more modules, visit the Metasploit Module Library.
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