SecureState Releases New Auxiliary Module for Metasploit Framework

Page Collector Cuts Down on Time and Energy for PenTesters

(Cleveland, Ohio) SecureState is pleased to announce the release of a new Auxiliary module for the Metasploit Framework that can greatly reduce the amount of time that it takes to visually fingerprint large amounts of webservers.

During Penetration Tests, consultants often need to target web applications in order to find “low hanging” vulnerabilities, such as default password configurations and out of date software. This task can be very difficult on large networks that are home to many hosts with different web servers, often running on a variety of ports. In this situation, PenTesters must often resort to running port scans and opening potential web servers in a browser one by one. Needless to say, this is a very time consuming and tedious task.

This dilemma led to the creation of the new Auxiliary module for the Metasploit Framework developed by Spencer McIntyre.

The new module, called “page_collector,” takes a range of hosts in the typical RHOSTS fashion and checks a user-definable list of ports for web services using both HTTP and HTTPS. Each successfully identified web server then gets a corresponding iFrame in an output file. The result is a single HTML document that, when loaded by the attacker, presents them with an easy to view list of hosts. Using this, Penetration Testers can greatly reduce the overhead usually required to find such “low hanging fruit” as Tomcat and JBoss installations, as well as generic login pages.

More information on the Metasploit Framework can be found at www.metasploit.com

About SecureState

SecureState provides information security assessments and information protection to help our clients obtain and maintain their desired state of security. SecureState information protection consultants work to provide the very best physical, logical and personnel security services through audit and compliance, attack and penetration tests, data forensics, and security program building. Our clients span a variety of industries giving SecureState the experience of working in unique environments. We take that experience, combined with our consultants' experience of working for Military Intelligence, Big X Consulting, government agencies and various other law enforcement entities, and apply it to your organization.