There are several methods to do so but the method using python almost always works. In real targets, we might not get the pseudo shell directly. You can see above some keys like arrows, delete, etc. In my case, I got the pty (pseudo-terminal) directly.
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Make sure to check for getting shells in different languages. There are many techniques to spawn a reverse shell. Assuming that the target doesn’t have netcat installed, I would be connecting using bash as follows. On the target machine, I would run the command that would connect to my reverse connection. Since the attacking machine would listen to the reverse connection, in my case I would listen on the user kali’s shell. Here, my target is the root user, whereas the user kali will be the attacker who will have access to the reverse shell. To demonstrate, I am going to different users’ shells. Let’s take an example of a simple reverse shell.
#NETCAT REVERSE SHELL CLOSES UPGRADE#
Hence, it is required to upgrade to an intelligent reverse shell than a dumb reverse shell. That is, the shell is a very plain shell that doesn’t have any prompts or features like bash-completion. However, there is a small drawback to this type of shell. Anyways, in the pentesters’ community, its major role is to avail them with the shell of the target machine either using a reverse connection or bind. Likewise, this is also important to debug if the network connection has worked or not. Hence, this tool has come in handy whether we want to spawn a reverse shell or download a file if wget or curl isn’t available on the target.
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Netcat is a tool that allows us to read from and writing to network connections using TCP or UDP.