Teaching the Old .NET Remoting New Exploitation Tricks

This repository provides further details and resources on the CODE WHITE blog post of the same name Teaching the Old .NET Remoting New Exploitation Tricks:

• RemotingServer: a restricted .NET Remoting server
• RemotingClient_MBRO: a client that creates a MarshalByRefObject on the server using a XAML gadget
• RemotingClient_MBRO_BruteForcer: a client that enumerates object names
• RemotingClient_MBRO_Lazy: a client that creates a MarshalByrefObject on the server using Lazy<T>
• RemotingClient_MBVO: a client that sends a serializable MarshalByRefObject by value

RemotingServer

A .NET Remoting server with restrictive configuration:

• TypeFilterLevel.Low: causes CAS code access permission restrictions
• marshaled server type is not MarshalByRefObject: renders --uselease and --useobjref of ExploitRemotingService unusable
• no existing client channel: also renders --uselease and --useobjref unusable (due to CAS restrictions)

RemotingClient_MBRO

A client that implements the trick of creating a MarshalByRefObject on the server side and coercing the server to serialize it. This requires the deserialization of a DataTable class that results in arbitrary XAML parsing, which creates the MarshalByRefObject instance and throws it in an exception retrievable from the response.

It creates a WebClient that can remotely read and write files on the server.

RemotingClient_MBRO_BruteForcer

A client that enumerates all the given object names in the word list from the server. For technical details, see RemotingClient_MBRO. Use with:

.\RemotingClient_MBRO_BruteForcer.exe tcp://127.0.0.1:12345/ .\object.list C:\Windows\win.ini

RemotingClient_MBRO_Lazy

A client that implements the trick of creating a MarshalByRefObject on the server side and coercing the server to serialize it. Opposed to the RemotingClient_MBRO above, it only requires the deserialization of a System.Lazy<T> object, which creates an instance of the specified type argument T during serialization.

It creates a WebClient that can remotely read and write files on the server.

RemotingClient_MBVO

A client that implements the trick of sending a serializable MarshalByRefObject by value instead of by reference and coercing the server to serialize it.

It uses the SoundPlayer to cause a file access by remotely setting its Location property.