UPDATE: Pattern2Code is now at V.03. This page has been updated with that version of code.
Pattern_create.rb is a great little tool that can be found in the /tools directory of your Metasploit framework. It is used to create a pattern of characters to a specified length which you can then inject into applications as a buffer overflow. Its sister script, pattern_offset.rb, is then used to identify how many bytes from the start of the string a particular part of the pattern occurred.
pattern2code.py is a script I created to save me manually modifying the pattern_create.rb patterns to fit into my fuzzing code. Its simple to use and will output the pattern into either Python, Perl or C code.
Running the script is as simple as piping the output from pattern_create.rb into the pattern2code.py and specifying a name for the buffer, a length of each split, and the language output.
The instructions below can also be found in the script if required;
[+] Usage: ./pattern2code.py <buffername> <length> <languagename> <input>
[+] <buffername> = Custom buffer name
[+] <length> = Length of each split
[+] <languagename> = Perl, Python or C
[+] <input> piped input from pattern_create.rb
Output examples:
# ./pattern_create.rb 180 | ./splitter.py overflowbuff 50 python
overflowbuff = “Aa0Aa1Aa2Aa3Aa4Aa5Aa6Aa7Aa8Aa9Ab0Ab1Ab2Ab3Ab4Ab5Ab”
overflowbuff += “6Ab7Ab8Ab9Ac0Ac1Ac2Ac3Ac4Ac5Ac6Ac7Ac8Ac9Ad0Ad1Ad2A”
overflowbuff += “d3Ad4Ad5Ad6Ad7Ad8Ad9Ae0Ae1Ae2Ae3Ae4Ae5Ae6Ae7Ae8Ae9″
overflowbuff += “Af0Af1Af2Af3Af4Af5Af6Af7Af8Af9″
^ Python code output with a 50 character split.
# ./pattern_create.rb 260 | ./splitter.py newbuffer 40 perl
my $newbuffer =
“Aa0Aa1Aa2Aa3Aa4Aa5Aa6Aa7Aa8Aa9Ab0Ab1Ab2A” .
“b3Ab4Ab5Ab6Ab7Ab8Ab9Ac0Ac1Ac2Ac3Ac4Ac5Ac” .
“6Ac7Ac8Ac9Ad0Ad1Ad2Ad3Ad4Ad5Ad6Ad7Ad8Ad9″ .
“Ae0Ae1Ae2Ae3Ae4Ae5Ae6Ae7Ae8Ae9Af0Af1Af2A” .
“f3Af4Af5Af6Af7Af8Af9Ag0Ag1Ag2Ag3Ag4Ag5Ag” .
“6Ag7Ag8Ag9Ah0Ah1Ah2Ah3Ah4Ah5Ah6Ah7Ah8Ah9″ .
“Ai0Ai1Ai2Ai3Ai4Ai5Ai”;
^ Perl code output with 40 a character split
# ./pattern_create.rb 260 | ./splitter.py newbuffer 55 c
unsigned char newbuffer[] =
“Aa0Aa1Aa2Aa3Aa4Aa5Aa6Aa7Aa8Aa9Ab0Ab1Ab2Ab3Ab4Ab5Ab6Ab7A”
“b8Ab9Ac0Ac1Ac2Ac3Ac4Ac5Ac6Ac7Ac8Ac9Ad0Ad1Ad2Ad3Ad4Ad5Ad”
“6Ad7Ad8Ad9Ae0Ae1Ae2Ae3Ae4Ae5Ae6Ae7Ae8Ae9Af0Af1Af2Af3Af4″
“Af5Af6Af7Af8Af9Ag0Ag1Ag2Ag3Ag4Ag5Ag6Ag7Ag8Ag9Ah0Ah1Ah2A”
“h3Ah4Ah5Ah6Ah7Ah8Ah9Ai0Ai1Ai2Ai3Ai4Ai5Ai”;
^ C code output with a 55 character split.
Here is the code for your enjoyment 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 | #!/usr/bin/env python import sys if len(sys.argv) != 4: print "++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++" print "+ +" print "+ pattern2code.py V0.03 +" print "+ Created by Damian Grace - http://www.damiangrace.com +" print "+ Restructure based on code by Jamie Gadd +" print "+ +" print "++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\n" print "[+] Usage: ./pattern2code.py <buffername> <length> <languagename> <input>" print "[+] <buffername> = Custom buffer name" print "[+] <length> = Length of each split" print "[+] <languagename> = Perl, Python or C" print "[+] <input> piped input from pattern_create.rb\n" print "[+] This program is for use with pattern_create.rb which comes" print "[+] bundled with Metasploit in the tools directory." print "[+] To make it executable: chmod 755 ./pattern2code.py" print "[+] While its in the tools directory run it like so:" print "[+] ./pattern_create.rb 2000 | ./pattern2code.py buffer python\n" sys.exit(2) # read buffer name and split length buffername = sys.argv[1] splitlength = int(sys.argv[2]) # read pattern and remove newline pattern = sys.stdin.read()[:-1] # language options language = {"perl":("my $"+buffername+" = \t\""+pattern[:splitlength], "\" .\n\t\t\"", "\";\n"), "python":(buffername+" = \t\""+pattern[:splitlength],"\"\n"+buffername+" += \"","\"\n"), "c":("unsigned char "+buffername+"[] = \""+pattern[:splitlength],"\" \\\n\t\t\"", "\";\n")} # parse args start,mid,end = language.get(sys.argv[3], ('','','')) # main sys.stdout.write(start) for x in xrange(splitlength,len(pattern),splitlength): sys.stdout.write(mid+pattern[x:x+splitlength]) sys.stdout.write(end) |
The code can also be downloaded here
Enjoy!
P.S. I would love to hear feedback on how to improve my code so please leave a comment…
