Find the sketchiest ad networks (http://krebsonsecurity.com/ has lots of reading and links). You'll need to front some cash to buy bitcoin to buy time on those ad networks. Put your "ad" consisting of this exploit on the network, which then manages to root both the machine visiting the web page, and the VMWare host machine. Use this to build a botnet.
Given how juicy the VMWare escape is, I'd also just start dumping ~/Documents/ on any machine that you escape out from the guest OS on. Who knows what they'll have?
It's mostly going to be boring, so you'll want to automate this, but infect enough machines and you'll hit easy scammer pay dirt- PII on millions of people, despite regulations that prohibit doing this. Credit cards, social security numbers, phone numbers, addresses. From there, it's just a felony or two away from either stealing people's identities yourself, or selling the list in a scam forum (for way more than $100k). There are all sorts of juicy data that you might find; VMWare isn't something that most people run, and maybe there are other monetizable bits of data.
Assuming you don't find the scammers' wet dream in stolen data though, you're reduced to trying to monetize from other ways. Desktop popups, DDoS for hire, cryptolocker-style data-ransom, using the machine as a host for sending spam.
It's 2017 and it really sucks that spam is still such a huge problem (Gmail's spam filter is only so effective because Google's team works hard, and is good at their job, not because the problem has gone away). As a spammer though, this means it's still lucrative enough that there's some non-zero amount of money to be made. Due to the VMWare escape involved, you'll have fewer problems with machines in your botnet going offline (how often do you reimage a VMWare host compared to the guests on it?) and can charge more money to use it too.
There are established scammer networks that can already monetize a botnet and selling your botnet and its capabilities to them might be easier than monetizing yourself, but at some level in order to make money you start getting some serious exposure that will land you in prison for years if you get caught, plus you'll eventually start working with scary people that will kill you if it suits them.
I think you're vastly overestimating the number of VMware backed browsers as well as the money to be made in a botnet. As well as the effort in actually setting all this up and maintaining opsec.
I'm also not convinced a VMware escape is something people get killed over. The leaked "Hacking Team" data shows exploits aren't worth that much more on the market (iOS being a big exception).
Given how juicy the VMWare escape is, I'd also just start dumping ~/Documents/ on any machine that you escape out from the guest OS on. Who knows what they'll have?
It's mostly going to be boring, so you'll want to automate this, but infect enough machines and you'll hit easy scammer pay dirt- PII on millions of people, despite regulations that prohibit doing this. Credit cards, social security numbers, phone numbers, addresses. From there, it's just a felony or two away from either stealing people's identities yourself, or selling the list in a scam forum (for way more than $100k). There are all sorts of juicy data that you might find; VMWare isn't something that most people run, and maybe there are other monetizable bits of data.
Assuming you don't find the scammers' wet dream in stolen data though, you're reduced to trying to monetize from other ways. Desktop popups, DDoS for hire, cryptolocker-style data-ransom, using the machine as a host for sending spam.
It's 2017 and it really sucks that spam is still such a huge problem (Gmail's spam filter is only so effective because Google's team works hard, and is good at their job, not because the problem has gone away). As a spammer though, this means it's still lucrative enough that there's some non-zero amount of money to be made. Due to the VMWare escape involved, you'll have fewer problems with machines in your botnet going offline (how often do you reimage a VMWare host compared to the guests on it?) and can charge more money to use it too.
There are established scammer networks that can already monetize a botnet and selling your botnet and its capabilities to them might be easier than monetizing yourself, but at some level in order to make money you start getting some serious exposure that will land you in prison for years if you get caught, plus you'll eventually start working with scary people that will kill you if it suits them.