Reverse Shell
Hello guys and girls. This post will just explain the difference between this two types of shell. In a later post I will provide a demo, that you can follow along.
This shell is initiated from the target host to the attacker’s machine. The attackers machine should be into listening state to be able to pick up the shell connection.
Why use reverse shell and not bind shell? Well reverse shells solve several issues that can be encountered.
- With reverse shells there is no need of a listener on the target machine.
- This type of shells can use commonly used and open ports like 80 or 443 – that’s how you bypass firewall restrictions.
Bind Shell
This shell is opposite to the reverse shell. The listener is “ON” on the target machine and the attacker connects to it. The problem with this type of shell is that firewalls usually have harder rules for incoming traffic
