module

Firefox XPCOM Execute Command

Disclosed	Created
N/A	May 30, 2018

Disclosed

N/A

Created

May 30, 2018

Description

This module runs a shell command on the target OS without touching the disk.
On Windows, this command will flash the command prompt momentarily.
This can be avoided by setting WSCRIPT to true, which drops a jscript
"launcher" to disk that hides the prompt.

Author

joev [email protected]

Platform

Firefox

Architectures

firefox

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 payload/firefox/exec
    msf payload(exec) > show actions
        ...actions...
    msf payload(exec) > set ACTION < action-name >
    msf payload(exec) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf payload(exec) > run

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