rapid7/metasploit-framework — pull request #935 by dmaloney-r7 (2012-10-19 20:12:46+00:00)
Title: WinRM mixin and basic discovery module

This adds the mixin for support of WinRM and the first module in the series. This first module connects to a HTTP/HTTP service and tries to check if it is a WinRM service. If so, it will gather the details on what authentication methods are supported.

The WinRM service is a part of more recent Windows Oses, that provides a SOAP based interface to WMI. It allows for execution of WQL queries, as well as executing actual shell commands.
Details on WinRM can be found at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa384426(v=vs.85).aspx