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forgottenspyingfeature-chen2013

2025-04-23

The Forgotten Spying Feature: Metasploit’s Mic Recording Command

by Wei Chen

January 23, 2013

Rapid7

https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2013/01/23/the-forgotten-spying-feature-metasploits-mic-recording-command/

Notes
Metasploit
microphone
stdapi
Matthew Weeks
accidentally lost the record_mic command https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/commit/42719ab34bb9ca51d2cd623777662fc2253857f1
record_mic deletion wasn’t noticed–perhaps no one used it?
webcam
record_mic
Windows
Java
meterpreter
OSX
Linux
penetration testing
maybe record_mic wasn’t used because pentesters are “gentlemen?”
maybe record_mic wasn’t used because it is not convenient
WAV file
Metasploit Pro
run_all_post.rc
resource script
mfsconsole
Meterpreter post module
speech to text
AT&T speech API PoC https://gist.github.com/wchen-r7/7c3c61b293b4f78451d6
Google Voice
Speech2Text

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