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Microsoft Windows Shell LNK Code Execution

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Disclosed
Jul 16, 2010
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a vulnerability in the handling of Windows
Shortcut files (.LNK) that contain an icon resource pointing to a
malicious DLL. This creates an SMB resource to provide the payload
inside a DLL, and generates a LNK file which must be sent to the
target.

Authors

hdm [email protected]
jduck [email protected]
B_H

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/smb/ms10_046_shortcut_icon_dllloader
    msf exploit(ms10_046_shortcut_icon_dllloader) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(ms10_046_shortcut_icon_dllloader) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(ms10_046_shortcut_icon_dllloader) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(ms10_046_shortcut_icon_dllloader) > exploit
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