Working With Bind and Reverse Shells
Bind shells are commonly used by penetration testers to logically set up a service port in a listening state on a targeted system while binding the listening service port to a native shell such as Bourne Again Shell (Bash) on Linux or Command Prompt on Windows; this is commonly referred to as a listener. Once the penetration tester initiates a connection to the listener and a session is established, the penetration tester will gain access to the targeted system’s native shell, whether it’s Bash on Linux or Command Prompt on a Windows-based system. ...