Hands-On Penetration Testing with Kali NetHunter

Exercise – planting a backdoor with Netcat

Netcat is like a Swiss Army knife in the TCP/IP stack. It's a very popular networking tool that provides networking and security professionals with many features; some of these features include the following:

• Able to read and write data over a networking
• Ability to transfer files
• Open service ports
• Conduct port-scanning and banner-grabbing

Netcat is not specific to an operating system; it's available to both Windows and Linux platforms. In this section, we will look at a few examples and usage of Netcat.

To connect to another machine, do the following:

nc <host IP address> < port> 

To listen for inbound connections, issue the following:

nc -l -p <port> 

Simply replace the port number with any unused, ...