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Parveen Vashishtha | 15 Aug 2007 | 0 comments

In our previous analysis we discussed ‘What is Mpack and how it works.’ We had reviewed MPackversion 0.84 in our previous blog; this time we will compare it with an updated version, MPack v 0.91.

1. The exploits include the existing ones present in v0.84. The list of exploits is present at the end of this blog.

2. There have been some changes to the management and reporting interface. A new file, admin.php, is introduced and stats.php has been removed.

The developers of the toolkit have provided admin.php for secure control and configuration of the Mpack installation. The Mpack owner can set username and password protection by using settings.php. There have been changes in the user interface, cosmetic changes such as better styles used to view, and a copyright logo: (c) 2007 DreamCoders– Logo.

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Eric Chien | 04 Jul 2007 | 0 comments

The MPack toolkit has received a fair amount of media attention, causing it to become one of the most desired Web browser exploit toolkits in the underground hacker scene. The original author was selling the MPack toolkit for $1,000 USD, including a year of free support, and additional exploit modules for around $100 USD.

However, considering the toolkit is written in a script language, it is easy to redistribute and modify. The toolkit is being sold by others now for as low as $150 USD. That is a whopping 85% off. Talk about clearance sale. The sellers likely didn't even need to buy it themselves, but rather probably found some of the multiple Web sites that did not employ standard Web site protections, allowing them to download the whole kit for free.

With the toolkit available in the underground scene and even available to almost...