Packet handlers should only return true if they consume a packet.
Otherwise, they should return false so something else can consume it.
This fixes port forwards by allowing the socket handler to see packets
that were otherwise being discarded in the pivot handler.
Dnsruby provides advanced options like DNSSEC in its data format
and is a current and well supported library.
The infrastructure services - resolver, server, etc, were designed
for a standalone configuration, and carry entirely too much weight
and redundancy to implement for this context. Instead of porting
over their native resolver, update the Net::DNS subclassed Rex
Resolver to use Dnsruby data formats and method calls.
Update the Msf namespace infrastructure mixins and native server
module with new method calls and workarounds for some instance
variables having only readers without writers. Implement the Rex
ServerManager to start and stop the DNS service adding relevant
alias methods to the Rex::Proto::DNS::Server class.
Rex services are designed to be modular and lightweight, as well
as implement the sockets, threads, and other low-level interfaces.
Dnsruby's operations classes implement their own threading and
socket semantics, and do not fit with the modular mixin workflow
used throughout Framework. So while the updated resolver can be
seen as adding rubber to the tire fire, converting to dnsruby's
native classes for resolvers, servers, and caches, would be more
like adding oxy acetylene and heavy metals.
Testing:
Internal tests for resolution of different record types locally
and over pivot sessions.
All meterpreter Clients are created equal, and as such they all
include the PacketDispatcher mixin and call its init methods when
a passive dispatcher is needed. However, since tunneling protocols
have different requirements for implementation, the methods which
provide protocol-specific functionality need to be mixed into the
Client before it attempts to initialize the dispatcher.
Provide a dispatch_ext option in the has passed to the client on
init from the session handler which is an Array containing mixin
references which are sent to :extend calls in the :init_meterpreter
method just prior to calling :initialize_passive_dispatcher.
Each handler implementation can thus push chains of mixins to the
client in order to provide middleware specific to the tunnel. Down
the road, this should permit stacking C2 encapsulations or tunnel
protocols/permutators to create unique session transports on the
fly.
PacketDispatcher has some hardcoded assumptions about utilizing
HTTP services as the async resource. With C2 and DNS tunnels in
the pipeline, these elements need to be separated from the core
functions of async packet dispatch and moved into their own module.
This creates a new namespace for Meterpreter::HttpPacketDispatcher,
meant to be mixed in after PacketDispatcher. The module implements
only three of the original module's methods - init, shutdown, and
the :on_passive_request callback; with the first two using :super,
with the expectation of having a PacketDispatcher mixin or API
compatible namespace already in the mix.
Brent Cook