Last updated at Thu, 31 Aug 2017 13:47:43 GMT

Welcome to another edition of the increasingly inaccurately named Weekly Wrap up! I'm egypt and I'll be your host. Since the last one of these, a lot of work has landed on the Framework. I talked about some of it with a bit of a yearly wrapup at my Derbycon talk. We also had a fun time at the Metasploit Townhall.

One of the recent things I didn't cover is the super cool BusyBox work by Javier Vicente Vallejo. For those who aren't familiar, BusyBox is a small, usually statically compiled, shell environment for resource-constrained systems like SOHO routers (which we've talked about quite a bit here on the Metasploit blog). From the official website:

BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts. BusyBox provides a fairly complete environment for any small or embedded system.

BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and limited resources in mind. It is also extremely modular so you can easily include or exclude commands (or features) at compile time. This makes it easy to customize your embedded systems. To create a working system, just add some device nodes in /dev, a few configuration files in /etc, and a Linux kernel.

BusyBox is used all over the place with all sorts of different configurations and, as a result of its modular design, many deployments are stripped down to the bare minimum requirements of a given system. That means significant environment-specific limitations from a post-exploitation perspective. Having a collection of tools for working with it after you've compromised a device can save a lot of time over figuring out what particular handicaps a given busybox has been compiled with.

We also released our shiny new Omnibus installer, with support for Windows, Linux, and OSX, for your Open Source installation pleasure.

As always, feel free to check the diffs from the last blog checkpoint, over on GitHub.

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