Gray Hat Hacking The Ethical Hacker's Handbook, Fifth Edition, 5th Edition

CHAPTER 15

PowerShell Exploitation

The majority of corporate systems are still Windows based, so it’s important that we have a good grasp of the available tools in Windows systems. One of the most powerful of these tools is PowerShell. In this chapter, you learn about what makes PowerShell such a powerful tool, and we look at some ways to use it as part of our exploitation toolkit.

In this chapter, we cover the following topics:

•   Why PowerShell

•   Loading PowerShell scripts

•   Creating shells with PowerShell

•   PowerShell post exploitation

Why PowerShell

Although the PowerShell language has been a blessing for Windows systems automation, it also gives hackers leverage. PowerShell gives us access to almost all of the Windows features ...