pivotal

Big idea

• Inject DLL in target IE process using Metasploit's Reflective DLL Injection
• DLL's DllMain launches a thread
• The thread starts an HTTP proxy server
• Proxy server listens for HTTP requests
• HTTP CONNECT requests to port 443 are intercepted, the proxy returning "200 Connection established" then initiating handshake as the requested server
• If request is encrypted, it is decrypted using keys established during handshake.
• Proxy server forwards request using WinINet API thereby inheriting any associated credentials from the parent process
• Proxy server forwards response back to original client, reencrypting response if needed.
• Server closes when IE process ends

Current status

• driver.exe loads DLL using LoadLibrary
• DLL's DllMain launches a thread which starts the proxy server
• Server listens for connections on 0.0.0.0:4040
• Incoming requests are parsed, transmitted through WinINet, and returned
• TLS handshakes are partially functional, but won't yet be responded to

Building

• VS2012 solution provided, should work in 2013 too
• Configured for 32- and 64-bit DLLs (which one do we need?)
• Requires some C++11 features though this requirement might be removed in the future. If building in VS2012 which lacks some C++11 features, install (updated compiler)[http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35515]

Testing

• Run driver.exe. It expects a dll named pivotal.dll in the same directory.
• After five seconds, server will start on a separate thread
• Set proxy setting to use 0.0.0.0:4040
• All connections will be displayed in the console
• All non-SLL connections should work!
• Testing in a lab enviornment verified that the proxy allows access to hosts to which there is an open session.
  • Testing scinaro used:
    • Target host is on a remote subnet that is segmented from the attacker by ACL's and stateful inspection
    • An intermediary can access the target host but only with web traffic
    • The ideal for testing would be if access to the remote host was restriced by an additional itermediary like a jump box because it is possible to mimic HTTP traffic and fool packet inspection
    • We compromise the itermediary execute our payload
    • We can now interact with any host the user has a session open to

To be done:

• Create a port scanner that will run over HTTP to play nice with our proxy
  • Need to do some testing with making requests to ports over HTTP to see how this will work
• Add HTTPS support. See example here
• Actually try injecting this into IE and see what happens
  • Make the dll reflective for injection (https://github.com/stephenfewer/ReflectiveDLLInjection)
• Set up to be delivered with MSF
  • patch the reflective DLL to make it compatible with the dllinject stager
  • deliver the patched reflective DLL to the dllinject stager
• SEE: http://blog.strategiccyber.com/2012/09/17/delivering-custom-payloads-with-metasploit-using-dll-injection/

Steps to Creating a Payload

• Target Vulnerability
• Setting Up for Development
• Choosing a Starting Point
• Development Process Overview
• Triggering the Vulnerability
• Sending the Payload