Hands-On Red Team Tactics

Reverse shell using powercat

powercat is a utility tool that is just like netcat but written in PowerShell with some extra features, including the ability to send data over TCP, UDP, and DNS, connection relays, and payload generation.

powercat can be downloaded from https://github.com/besimorhino/powercat.

To make a start with powercat, we need to import the powercat.ps1 module into PowerShell. (Luckily, I have installed PowerShell on my macOS). We can only see the powercat command after we import the module:

Let's execute the following command in order to bring up the help screen:

powercat -h

From here onwards, we can use this module just ...