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hackedteam/vector-exploit
Exploit repository
This is part of the 2015 Hacking Team breach dump — actual internal exploit code from an Italian commercial surveillance company. It covers 2012–2014 exploits targeting Word, PowerPoint, Internet Explorer, and OS X, organized as a builder framework with per-exploit Ruby scripts, YAML metadata, and resource bundles. Every vulnerability here has been patched for over a decade.
- Real production tooling from a commercial vendor, not a hobbyist PoC — the builder pattern (Ruby script + YAML metadata + resource bundle per exploit) shows how professional exploit kit organization actually worked at the time.
- Source for the IE sandbox escape (PMIEFuck-Java, PMIEFuck-WinWord) is included, which is genuinely useful for studying how privilege escalation chains were constructed against Office and IE in the 2012–2013 era.
- The YAML info files per exploit show a structured approach to tracking CVE targets, platform requirements, and fake document templates — a rare look at internal ops documentation from a commercial team.
- Entirely historical — targets Flash, ActiveX, and IE/Office versions that have been EOL for years. Zero practical offensive value, though that's also what makes it safe to analyze.
- Committed compiled binaries alongside source: .pdb, .ilk, .obj, .tlog files throughout. The repo is bloated with MSVC build artifacts that should never have been checked in.
- No documentation of how any exploit works. The code is just there, stripped of context — useful only if you already know the CVEs well enough to reverse-engineer the intent.
- Hacking Team sold these tools to governments with documented human rights violations. The breach exposed that, which is the reason this repo exists publicly. That context matters when deciding whether to engage with the material.