Using the PowerShell alphanumeric shellcode injection attack

The Social Engineering Toolkit also incorporates more effective attacks based on PowerShell, which is available on all Microsoft operating systems after the release of Microsoft Windows Vista. Because PowerShell shell code can easily be injected into the target's physical memory, attacks using this vector do not trigger antivirus alarms.

To launch a PowerShell injection attack using SEToolkit, select 1) Social-Engineering Attacks from the main menu. Then, select 10) PowerShell AttackVectors from the next menu.

This will give the attacker four options for attack types; for this example, select 1 to invoke PowerShell alphanumeric shellcode injector.

This will set the attack parameters ...

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