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Pulsar

Data exfiltration and covert communication tool

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GPLv3 License Quality Gate Status

Pulsar

Pulsar is a tool for data exfiltration and covert communication that enable you to create a secure data transfer, a bizarre chat or a network tunnel through different protocols, for example you can receive data from tcp connection and resend it to real destination through DNS packets 🎉

Setting up Pulsar 🔨

⚠️ Make sure you have at least Go 1.8 in your system to build Pulsar ⚠️

First, getting the code from repository and compile it with following command:

root@kitploit:~
$ cd pulsar
$ go build -o bin/pulsar src/main.go

or run:

root@kitploit:~
$ make

Connectors 📡

A connector is a simple channel to the external world, with the connector you can read and write data from different sources.

  • Console:
    • Default in/out connector, read data from stdin and write to stdout
  • TCP
    • Read and write data through tcp connections

      root@kitploit:~
        tcp:127.0.0.1:9000
      
  • UDP
    • Read and write data through udp packet

      root@kitploit:~
        udp:127.0.0.1:9000
      
  • ICMP
    • Read and write data through icmp packet

      root@kitploit:~
        icmp:127.0.0.1 (the connection port is obviously useless)
      
  • DNS
    • Read and write data through dns packet

      root@kitploit:~
        dns:[email protected]:1994
      

You can use option --in in order to select input connector and option --out to select output connector:

root@kitploit:~
    --in tcp:127.0.0.1:9000
    --out dns:fkdns.lol:2.3.4.5:8989
    

Handlers 🔧

A handler allows you to change data in transit, you can combine handlers arbitrarily.

  • Stub:

    • Default, do nothing, pass through
  • Base32

    • Base32 encoder/decoder

      root@kitploit:~
        --handlers base32
      
  • Base64

    • Base64 encoder/decoder

      root@kitploit:~
        --handlers base64
      
  • Cipher

    • CTR cipher, support AES/DES/TDES in CTR mode (Default: AES)

      root@kitploit:~
        --handlers cipher:<key|[aes|des|tdes#key]>
      

You can use the --decode option to use ALL handlers in decoding mode

root@kitploit:~
    --handlers base64,base32,base64,cipher:key --decode

Example

In the following example Pulsar will be used to create a secure two-way tunnel on DNS protocol, data will be read from TCP connection (simple nc client) and resend encrypted through the tunnel.

root@kitploit:~
[nc 127.0.0.1 9000] <--TCP--> [pulsar] <--DNS--> [pulsar] <--TCP--> [nc -l 127.0.0.1 -p 9900]

192.168.1.198:

root@kitploit:~
$ ./pulsar --in tcp:127.0.0.1:9000 --out dns:[email protected]:8989 --duplex --plain in --handlers 'cipher:supersekretkey!!'
$ nc 127.0.0.1 9000

192.168.1.199:

root@kitploit:~
$ nc -l 127.0.0.1 -p 9900
$ ./pulsar --in dns:[email protected]:8989 --out tcp:127.0.0.1:9900 --duplex --plain out --handlers 'cipher:supersekretkey!!' --decode

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