Black Hat Bash

7 REVERSE SHELLS

You’ve practiced gaining initial access to a target by establishing web shells that provide temporary, one-way network channels. In this chapter, we’ll explore a more stable initial access technique: using reverse shells, which swap the direction of the network communication. Attackers use these reverse connections from a compromised target machine to their own machine to gain reliable control over the compromised system and execute commands remotely in a more synchronized fashion.

You’ll learn how to create a reverse shell, then make your communications with remote environments more robust. As a bonus, you’ll also learn ...