Netcat

Another one of the very versatile fundamentals of exploitation, netcat is one of those programs that becomes second nature to an Ethical Hacker.

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Setting up a Listener

A number of exploits create a ‘reverse shell’, in which the exploited machine calls back to the attacker. Part of this, is that you must set up a listener to recieve this call.

nc -lvnp [port]

• l -> Listen

• v -> verbose logging

• n -> dont resolve DNS

• p -> next arguement is the port to listen on

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