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Microsoft Windows Shell LNK Code Execution

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Disclosed
Mar 10, 2015
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a vulnerability in the MS10-046 patch to abuse (again) the handling
of Windows Shortcut files (.LNK) that contain an icon resource pointing to a malicious
DLL. This module creates the required files to exploit the vulnerability. They must be
uploaded to an UNC path accessible by the target. This module has been tested successfully
on Windows 2003 SP2 with MS10-046 installed and Windows 2008 SP2 (32 bits) with MS14-027
installed.

Authors

Michael Heerklotz
juan vazquez [email protected]

Platform

Windows

References

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 exploit/windows/fileformat/ms15_020_shortcut_icon_dllloader
    msf exploit(ms15_020_shortcut_icon_dllloader) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(ms15_020_shortcut_icon_dllloader) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(ms15_020_shortcut_icon_dllloader) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(ms15_020_shortcut_icon_dllloader) > exploit
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