Becoming the Hacker

A better way to shell

While we have achieved the goal of executing code on the server and have effectively compromised the application (and more!), you may have an incentive to dig a bit deeper. Moreover, the web shell created so far is fairly dumb and it is difficult to execute commands in succession. If this test lasts for several days, or even weeks, it could be a burden. It is a bit clunky and difficult to work with as well. You may need to transfer files, upgrade to an interactive shell, navigate the filesystem, and so forth. For this and for many other reasons, you should upgrade to a more functional feature-full shell. This is where Weevely comes in.

Weevely is a weaponized web shell installed on Kali Linux by default. It is very easy to ...