Research

Below you will find the tools that The Hacker Academy instructors and team have written. The tools are available for public use.

thaPdfMetaSlurp

thaPdfMetaSlurp.pl is a custom tool written by The Hacker Academy’s Jeremy Conway aimed at automating the harvesting of Metadata and extracting Incremental Updates from within PDF files found on the internet. thaPdfMetaSlurp will automatically search for, retrieve, parse, and analyze PDF files it retrieves based on Google Search results for a targeted domain.

MSSQL Magic

MSSQL_magic is a quick shell script for obtaining (remotely, without ANY authentication) the version of any Microsoft SQL Server newer than SQL Server 2000.  While most online resources require you to log in to the SQL Server to obtain the version, MSSQL Magic will get that information without authentication.

infect_pdfs.rb

infect_pdfs.rb: Custom THA Meterpreter Script to inventory and infect all PDF files on a targets file system with the Social Engineering Embedded PDF Attack Payload from within a Meterpreter shell.