Windows Remoting: Difference between psexec, wmiexec, atexec, *exec

https://images.pexels.com/photos/3760778/pexels-photo-3760778.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&w=1260&h=750&dpr=1 If you’re anything like me, you discovered Impacket, either through a course, Ippsec, or your own research, and you look at the scripts. Your grin turns into horror as you realize the sheer amount of scripts that end with “exec”. They all give you remote access but when do you use which one!? Don’t worry, I have your back. Let’s break them down. PsExec PsExec works by writing a randomly-named binary to the ADMIN$ SMB share (hence why you require write access to that share in order to use it)....

2022-12-09 · 4 min · Ally Petitt

Pentester’s Guide to Performing File Transfers

Foreword To avoid detection, it is best to use tools that are native to the victim’s computer. FTP with Windows Host While having a shell on the Windows machine, start an FTP server on your host machine. Follow these steps if you don’t already have FTP server installed: sudo apt-get install vsftpd sudo service vsftpd start service vsftpd status #status should be active To check if your server is working, type ftp localhost....

2022-06-08 · 3 min · Ally Petitt