Warming up – Your First Antivirus-Free Persistence Shell

Nowadays, security solutions such as firewalls, IPS, and sandboxing are becoming more and more advanced to prevent and detect cyber-attacks. So, being an advanced hacker requires you to code your own script and tools to bypass these security solutions.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

• Preparing the attacker machine
• Preparing the target machine
• TCP reverse Shell
• HTTP reverse Shell
• Persistence
• Tuning connection attempts
• Tips for preventing a shell breakdown
• Countermeasures