Nishang – PowerShell for penetration testing

Nishang is a great collection of tools used to perform many tasks during all the penetration testing phases. You can get it from https://github.com/samratashok/nishang:

# git clone https://github.com/samratashok/nishang

As you can see from listing the downloaded project, Nishang is loaded with many various scripts and utilities for performing a lot of required tasks during penetration testing missions, such as:

  • Privilege escalation
  • Scanning
  • Pivoting  

You can explore all the available scripts by listing the content of Nishang project using the ls command:

Let's explore some of Nishang's script ...

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