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module

Non-Alpha Encoder

Disclosed
N/A
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

Encodes payloads as non-alpha based bytes. This allows
payloads to bypass both toupper() and tolower() calls,
but will fail isalpha(). Table based design from
Russel Sanford.

Author

Platform

All

Architectures

x86

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


msf > use encoder/x86/nonalpha
msf encoder(nonalpha) > show actions
...actions...
msf encoder(nonalpha) > set ACTION < action-name >
msf encoder(nonalpha) > show options
...show and set options...
msf encoder(nonalpha) > run

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