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Linux Manage Download and Execute

Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module downloads and runs a file with bash. It first tries to uses curl as its HTTP client and then wget if it's not found. Bash found in the PATH is used to execute the file.

Author(s)

  • Joshua D. Abraham <jabra@praetorian.com>

Platform

Linux

Development

Module Options

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

Time is precious, so I don’t want to do something manually that I can automate. Leveraging the Metasploit Framework when automating any task keeps us from having to re-create the wheel as we can use the existing libraries and focus our efforts where it matters.

– Jim O’Gorman | President, Offensive Security

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