⚒ Upgrade your Hacking Tools 🛠

Netcat, Nmap, Gobuster, these are all staple tools in the ethical hacking world. If you frequent Hack the Box, Try Hack Me or any other ethical hacking lab platform, you likely use the aforementioned tools very often. What if you could upgrade those tools?

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Upgrade may be a dramatic word, but the hacking tools that this article is going to go over were developed to work faster and/or better than the usual tool. Pwncat, Feroxbuster, Rustcan and Updog is what will be reviewed.

Pwncat

The upgrade for Netcat. In pen testing lab environments you’re constantly exploiting Remote Command Execution vulnerabilities and need netcat to receive call backs for shells. But what if those shells could be more functional, persistent, automated and cool looking? This is among what Pwncat has to offer. Pwncat has all the flexibility of Netcat with a lot of extra features.

More functionally because when you establish a shell, pwncat establishes a PseudoTerminal to make it just like an SSH session with history, tab completion, line editing, and graphical terminal applications. Build into the shell are upload and download commands that make file transfer easy. It even doubles as an SSH client: