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      Hash Slinging Stasher

      Hash Slinging Stasher

      🏆   by theSW4n February 04, 2025

      Bash Bunny Exfiltration

      This payload copies files to Bash Bunny udisk from the target OS matching given extensions and file size while checking file checksum
      Screenshare Over LAN

      Screenshare Over LAN

      🏆   by beigeworm February 04, 2025

      Recon USB Rubber Ducky

      This payload starts up a HTTP server and streams the local desktop to a browser window for other devices on the network.

      Flood Gateway

      Flood Gateway

      🏆   by InfoSecREDD January 23, 2025

      Execution Shark Jack

      This payload detects the Gateway IP then proceeds to send SYN/ACK/RST/UDP to the Gateway
      Pebbles

      Pebbles

      🏆   by Cribbit January 07, 2025

      General Key Croc

      This Keycroc payload creates the game of pebbles base off of the game NIM, with the user battling the croc.

      FileHunter

      FileHunter

      🏆   by 0i41E January 03, 2025

      Exfiltration USB Rubber Ducky

      Crawls all drives of the target system for a specific file or file type, to then compress and exfiltrate them to the Ducky.
      USB Poison

      USB Poison

      🏆   by beigeworm January 03, 2025

      General USB Rubber Ducky

      This payload executes a script that waits for new USB flash storage devices to be connected. When a new device connects, this script will copy a desired file...

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      2. 🥈   InfoSecREDD
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      2. 🥈   0i41E
      3. 🥉   Spywill
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      2. 🥈   0iphor13
      3. 🥉   atomiczsec

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