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Reflected File Download

Oren Hafif · Trustwave Holdings, Inc. · 30 October 2014

Reflected File Download turns a trusted site into a malware host without any upload: a URL whose input is reflected into the response, typically a JSON or JSONP API, is given extra permissive path segments so the browser saves the reply as an executable .bat or .cmd file. The victim sees a download from a trusted domain over HTTPS, and running it executes attacker-supplied shell commands.

Record

Researcher

Oren Hafif

Published by

Trustwave Holdings, Inc.

Date

30 October 2014

In the archive

• Nominated for the 2014 Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques

Related sources

• Whitepaper
• Whitepaper
• Talk recording

Tags

• command-injection
• url-parsing
• injection
• content-type
• rest-api
• http
• mitigation
• owasp-a03-2021
• owasp-a05-2021

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