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Windows Manage Remote Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol

Disclosed
N/A
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module initiates a PPTP connection to a remote machine (VPN server). Once
the tunnel is created we can use it to force the victim traffic to go through the
server getting a man in the middle attack. Be sure to allow forwarding and
masquerading on the VPN server (mitm).

Author

Borja Merino [email protected]

Platform

Windows

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 post/windows/manage/pptp_tunnel
msf post(pptp_tunnel) > show actions
...actions...
msf post(pptp_tunnel) > set ACTION < action-name >
msf post(pptp_tunnel) > show options
...show and set options...
msf post(pptp_tunnel) > run

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