March 2022
Intermediate to advanced
752 pages
18h 47m
English
book
Gray Hat Hacking: The Ethical Hacker's Handbook, Sixth Edition, 6th Edition
by Allen Harper, Ryan Linn, Stephen Sims, Michael Baucom, Huascar Tejeda, Daniel Fernandez, Moses Frost
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CHAPTER 15
PowerShell Exploitation
In this chapter, we cover the following topics:
• Why PowerShell
• Loading PowerShell scripts
• Creating shells with PowerShell
• PowerShell post-exploitation
The majority of corporate systems are Windows based, so it’s important that we have a good grasp of the tools available 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.
Why PowerShell
Although the PowerShell language has been a blessing for Windows systems automation, it gives hackers leverage. PowerShell gives us access to almost all Windows features in a programmatic ...