Power to the shell – PowerShell fundamentals
PowerShell is a command-line and scripting language framework for task automation and configuration management. I didn’t specify for Windows as, for a couple of years now, PowerShell has been cross-platform; however, it’s a Microsoft product. These days, it’s built into Windows, and despite its powerful potential for an attacker, it isn’t going to be fully blocked. For the Windows pen testers of today, it’s a comprehensive and powerful tool in their arsenal that just so happens to be installed on all of their victims’ PCs.
What is PowerShell?
PowerShell can be a little overwhelming to understand when you first meet it, but ultimately, it’s just a fancy interface. PowerShell interfaces with providers, which allows you to access functionality that can’t easily be leveraged at the command line. In a way, they’re like hardware drivers – code that provides a way...
