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Testing the backdoor

To test that our backdoor is working as expected, we're going to put it on our web server and download it from the target computer. We don't recommend this approach for anything other than testing your backdoor.

As Kali can be used as a website, we're going to put our backdoor online and download it from the target Windows machine. We're going to keep this download in one place, a folder called evil-files, as shown in the following screenshot:

Now, the backdoor we created using Veil-Evasion, which was stored in var/lib/veil-evasion/output/compiled/, needs to be copied and pasted into the evil-files directory. And that's ...