Netcat vs Cryptcat – Remote Shell to Control Kali Linux from Windows machine
Netcat is a well build network debugging tool, which can read and write data across computers using TCP or UDP, it is also called as TCP/IP utilities.
It is capable to act as master and slave to do file transfer, TCP banner grabbing, backdoor shells, port scanner, port redirection and network chats can also be performed using Netcat.
In this Kali Linux Tutorial how to work with Netcat and Cryptcat and would show the difference between them.
Remote shell with Netcat:-
- Execute Command: nc -l -p 1338 -e /bin/bash
- Above listener will be listening via port 1338 and gives executable -e for anyone for shell access through /bin/bash
- Now, Kali Linux as a backdoor to your network.