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RedGhost — Linux post exploitation framework written in bash designed to assist red teams in persistence, reconnaissance, privilege escalation and leaving no trace. | Kitploit
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RedGhost

Linux post exploitation framework written in bash designed to assist red teams in persistence, reconnaissance, privilege escalation and leaving no trace.

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RedGhost

Linux post exploitation framework designed to assist red teams in persistence, reconnaissance, privilege escalation and leaving no trace. image

  • Payloads

Function to generate various encoded reverse shells in netcat, bash, python, php, ruby, perl

  • SudoInject

Function to inject sudo command with wrapper function to run a reverse root shell everytime "sudo" is run for privilege escalataion

  • lsInject

Function to inject the "ls" command with a wrapper function to run payload everytime "ls" is run for persistence

  • SSHKeyInject

Function to log keystrokes of a ssh process using strace

  • Crontab

Function to create cron job that downloads payload from remote server and runs payload every minute for persistence

  • SysTimer

Function to create systemd timer that downloads and executes payload every 30 seconds for persistence.

  • GetRoot

Function to try various methods to escalate privileges

  • Clearlogs

Function to clear logs and make investigation with forensics difficult

  • MassInfoGrab

Function to grab mass reconaissance/information on system

  • CheckVM

Function to check if the system is a virtual machine

  • MemoryExec

Function to execute remote bash script in memory

  • BanIp

Function to BanIp using iptables

Installation

one liner to install RedGhost:

root@kitploit:~
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/d4rk007/RedGhost/master/redghost.sh; chmod +x redghost.sh; ./redghost.sh

One liner to install prerequisites and RedGhost:

root@kitploit:~
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/d4rk007/RedGhost/master/redghost.sh; chmod +x redghost.sh; apt-get install dialog; apt-get install gcc; apt-get install iptables; apt-get install strace; ./redghost.sh

Dependencies

dialog, gcc, iptables, strace

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