Re: Core Impact vs. Canvas vs. Metasploit

[Paul Asadoorian <paul () pauldotcom com>]

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Having used all three of these software packages/frameworks, here are  
my general thoughts:

- - I like Metasploit and CANVAS because I can run them on my  
powerbook, which means I can now do entire pen tests from OS X, which  
is convenient and cost effective

- - Metasploit & CANVAS work awesome, but lack the report features of  
CORE IMPACT

- - IMPACT has a nice feature where you can send email to you potential  
victims with a URL that points back to the IMPACT server and exploits  
the client.  This can be accomplished manually, however IMPACT logs  
and reports the entire process, which saves time in "Word Programming".

- - IMPACT is the best choice, in my opinion, if you are going to be  
auditing internally for a large organization (See the SANS What Works  
http://www.sans.org/info.php?id=1088 with Larry Pesce and Alan Paller).

If you are pen tester, it depends on your budget and how much time  
you have.  I also think that Metasploit can be extended to provide  
many of the features that will make a pen testers life easier and am  
impressed with the enhacenments in version 3.0.  I also use CANVAS  
quite extensively, which is a great selling point to those Fortune  
1000 companies when you can tell them that you use a commercial tool  
to audit their network (I am a HUGE fan of open-source, however  
corporate types seem to like the fact that we use a commercial tool,  
and CANVAS won't break the bank).

Paul

PS. We discuss pen testing, frameworks, Google hacking, and automated  
information gathering in our podcast interview with Johnny Long,  
http://www.pauldotcom.com/2006/04/pauldotcom_security_weekly_spe_7.html

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On Apr 27, 2006, at 2:08 PM, virtuale () hushmail com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> For those who have been using one or more of the subj. products -
>
> How do the products compare? What are the key technical adv/ 
> disadvantages of each product?
>
> The cost of the products is different. There must be something  
> about the technical part that is significantly different. I'm  
> trying to figure that out.
>
> My personal experience - both canvas and core support advanced  
> agent chaining, modules are python-based.
>
> I'm not sure how level2-3 agents in core map to canvas's helium but  
> level0 seem to be pretty similar in the way syscalls are proxied/ 
> socket reuse (strikingly similar, i'd say :)
>
> Encoders are similar in all three, e.g. xor, chunk, unicode/ 
> widechar. Is the price the only differentiator?
>
> V
>
>
>
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