Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

Changing the icon and compiling the payload

In the previous section, we worked on our script. In this section, we are going to learn how to compile it to an executable and how to change its icon. The script is written in a scripting language called AutoIt. AutoIt doesn't come preinstalled in Kali, but it gets installed when we install Veil. Since we're using a Veil backdoor, there's no way we could have gotten to this point without having installed Veil. That's why we are not going to cover how to install AutoIt; we can just download it and run the installer using Wine. So, AutoIt should be already installed for us by now, and all we have to do is rename the .txt file and change the extension from .txt to .au3. Then, search for the program ...