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dnsteal – DNS Exfiltration Tool

December 20, 2016

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dnsteal is a DNS exfiltration tool, essentially a fake DNS server that allows you to stealthily extract files from a victim machine through DNS requests.

dnsteal - DNS Exfiltration Tool

dnsteal is coded in Python and is available on Github.

Features

dnsteal currently has:

  • Support for multiple files
  • Gzip compression supported
  • Supports the customisation of subdomains
  • Customise bytes per subdomain and the length of filename

Usage

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# cd dnsteal/
# ./dnsteal.py -h
      ___  _  _ ___ _            _
     |   \| \| / __| |_ ___ __ _| |
     | |) | .` \__ \  _/ -_) _` | |
     |___/|_|\_|___/\__\___\__,_|_|v2.0
 
-- https://github.com/m57/dnsteal.git --
 
Stealthy file extraction via DNS requests
 
Usage: python ./dnsteal.py [listen_address] [options]
 
Options:
        -z      Unzip incoming files.
        -v      Verbose output.
        -h      This help menu
 
Advanced:
        -b      Bytes to send per subdomain                 (default = 57, max=63)
        -s      Number of data subdomains per request       (default =  4, ie. $data.$data.$data.$data.$filename)
        -f      Length reserved for filename per request    (default = 17)
 
$ python ./dnsteal.py -z 127.0.0.1
 
-------- Do not change the parameters unless you understand! --------
 
The query length cannot exceed 253 bytes. This is including the filename.
The subdomains lengths cannot exceed 63 bytes.
 
Advanced:
        ./dnsteal.py 127.0.0.1 -z -s 4 -b 57 -f 17      4 subdomains, 57 bytes => (57 * 4 = 232 bytes) + (4 * '.' = 236). Filename => 17 byte(s)
        ./dnsteal.py 127.0.0.1 -z -s 4 -b 55 -f 29      4 subdomains, 55 bytes => (55 * 4 = 220 bytes) + (4 * '.' = 224). Filename => 29 byte(s)
        ./dnsteal.py 127.0.0.1 -z -s 4 -b 63 -f  1      4 subdomains, 63 bytes => (62 * 4 = 248 bytes) + (4 * '.' = 252). Filename =>  1 byte(s)
 
 
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You can download dnsteal here:

dnsteal.py

Or read more here.

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