To round out implementation of a simple path for users to access
HttpClient like Open or Net::HTTP, create :request_url method which
takes a single URL parameter, uses :request_opts_from_url to build
the request configuration for Rex::Proto::Http::Client, executes
a GET request with it, and disconnects the client unless keepalive
is specified as the second parameter to :request_url.
Example usage of functionality is implemented in http_pdf_authors.
To address the complexity which comes with the flexibility offered
by Rex::Proto::Http::Client and its Msf mixin descendant, a simple
process needs to be implemented for issuing a request using only
the URL string in order to provide ease of access to users who may
not have the time to study how these clients work in detail.
Implement :request_opts_from_url in Msf's HttpClient mixin such as
to extract the options required for :send_request_* from a URL
string passed into the method. This approach reduces HTTP requests
in the mixin to `send_request_raw(request_opts_from_url(url))` when
`url` is just a string.
Implement this approach in the http_pdf_authors gather module to
further reduce infrastructure complexity around the simple need to
acquire PDF files via HTTP/S.
Testing:
Local to this module only, and in Pry of course. Seems to work...
This fixes a [] for NilClass bug in the download_file API.
The opts argument is not checked for nil before the code looks for
the block_size key.
Fix#8636
This changes the encryption flags on the meterpreter session so that
it's 32 bits (and hence changes the packet header). This also supports
the idea that sessions may use encryption that isn't AES256, so the
flags field will ultimately indicate that. A type flag has been added so
that MSF knows the type that should be done on the wire.
At some point soon we'll add something that makes sure that the packet
encryption type always matches the encryption type expected in MSF, this
will hopefully avoid the risk of having packets injected into the stream
by external entities.
Due to the way python3 does things differently, the escaped char string
for the session guid didn't work in the way it was expected. Instead,
we're going to do what we did with the payload UUID and hex encode, and
use binascii to handling the translation for us.
William Vu