Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

Downloading and executing AutoIt

In this section, we will learn how to combine the backdoor that we created with any other file type, so that when executed, it will display an image, a PDF, a song, or something that the target person is interested in. This way, we will be able to social engineer them to run our backdoor and they will see something that they trust, but our backdoor will be running in the background. We're going to do this using a download and execute script that will basically download the backdoor, download the file that the person expects, run the files that the person expects, and run the backdoor in the background. The download and execute script is included in the resources, which is available at the book's GitHub repository. ...