April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
17h 12m
English
book
Gray Hat Hacking The Ethical Hacker's Handbook, Fifth Edition, 5th Edition
by Daniel Regalado, Shon Harris, Allen Harper, Chris Eagle, Jonathan Ness, Branko Spasojevic, Ryan Linn, Stephen Sims
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CHAPTER 15
PowerShell Exploitation
The majority of corporate systems are still Windows based, so it’s important that we have a good grasp of the available tools in Windows systems. One of the most powerful of these tools is PowerShell. In this chapter, you learn about what makes PowerShell such a powerful tool, and we look at some ways to use it as part of our exploitation toolkit.
In this chapter, we cover the following topics:
• Why PowerShell
• Loading PowerShell scripts
• Creating shells with PowerShell
• PowerShell post exploitation
Why PowerShell
Although the PowerShell language has been a blessing for Windows systems automation, it also gives hackers leverage. PowerShell gives us access to almost all of the Windows features ...