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by pogue 542 days ago
I can't seem to figure out how this would work or what this mean. Most of the links to the documentation seem to be missing.

I'd actually be curious to know if this seemingly ~10 year old software still works. Also how much bandwidth it uses, CPU/RAM etc.

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There's tons of client software that can be exploited if you send a dangerous payload to it. Think of an exploitable version of Curl that will fail if it receives a bad http header.
I would guess that it fingerprints the scanning software (e.g. metasploit), then feeds a payload back to it that has a known exploit in the scanning script.