
The ultimate WinRM shell for hacking/pentesting
The ultimate WinRM shell for hacking/pentesting

This shell is the ultimate WinRM shell for hacking/pentesting.
WinRM (Windows Remote Management) is the Microsoft implementation of WS-Management Protocol. A standard SOAP based protocol that allows hardware and operating systems from different vendors to interoperate. Microsoft included it in their Operating Systems in order to make life easier to system administrators.
This program can be used on any Microsoft Windows Servers with this feature enabled (usually at port 5985), of course only if you have credentials and permissions to use it. So we can say that it could be used in a post-exploitation hacking/pentesting phase. The purpose of this program is to provide nice and easy-to-use features for hacking. It can be used with legitimate purposes by system administrators as well but the most of its features are focused on hacking/pentesting stuff.
It is based mainly in the WinRM Ruby library which changed its way to work since its version 2.0. Now instead of using WinRM protocol, it is using PSRP (Powershell Remoting Protocol) for initializing runspace pools as well as creating and processing pipelines.
Usage: evil-winrm -i IP -u USER [-s SCRIPTS_PATH] [-e EXES_PATH] [-P PORT] [-a USERAGENT] [-p PASS] [-H HASH] [-U URL] [-S] [-c PUBLIC_KEY_PATH ] [-k PRIVATE_KEY_PATH ] [-r REALM] [-K TICKET_FILE] [--spn SPN_PREFIX] [-l]
-S, --ssl Enable ssl
-c, --pub-key PUBLIC_KEY_PATH Local path to public key certificate
-k, --priv-key PRIVATE_KEY_PATH Local path to private key certificate
-r, --realm DOMAIN Kerberos auth, it has to be set also in /etc/krb5.conf file using this format -> CONTOSO.COM = { kdc = fooserver.contoso.com }
-K, --ccache TICKET_FILE Path to Kerberos ticket file (ccache or kirbi format, auto-detected)
-s, --scripts PS_SCRIPTS_PATH Powershell scripts local path
--spn SPN_PREFIX SPN prefix for Kerberos auth (default HTTP)
-e, --executables EXES_PATH C# executables local path
-i, --ip IP Remote host IP or hostname. FQDN for Kerberos auth (required)
-U, --url URL Remote url endpoint (default /wsman)
-u, --user USER Username (required if not using kerberos)
-p, --password PASS Password
-H, --hash HASH NTHash
-P, --port PORT Remote host port (default 5985)
-a, --user-agent Specify connection user-agent (default Microsoft WinRM Client)
-V, --version Show version
-n, --no-colors Disable colors
-N, --no-rpath-completion Disable remote path completion
-l, --log Log the WinRM session
-h, --help Display this help message
Ruby 2.3 or higher is needed. Some ruby gems are needed as well: winrm >=2.3.7, winrm-fs >=1.3.2, stringio >=0.0.2, logger >= 1.4.3, fileutils >= 0.7.2, readline ~> 0.0.4, readline-ext ~> 0.2.0.
Depending of your installation method (4 availables) the installation of them could be required to be done manually.
Another important requirement only used for Kerberos auth is to install the Kerberos package used for network authentication.
For some Linux like Debian based (Kali, Parrot, etc.) it is called krb5-user. For BlackArch it is called krb5 and probably it could be called in a different way for other Linux distributions.
The remote path completion feature requires the native readline-ext binding, which is installed automatically as an Evil-WinRM dependency. Some systems require additional development packages to compile it. Check the section below for more info.
gem install evil-winrmevil-winrm -i 192.168.1.100 -u Administrator -p 'MySuperSecr3tPass123!' -s '/home/foo/ps1_scripts/' -e '/home/foo/exe_files/'
sudo gem install winrm winrm-fs stringio logger fileutils readline readline-extgit clone https://github.com/Hackplayers/evil-winrm.gitcd evil-winrm && ruby evil-winrm.rb -i 192.168.1.100 -u Administrator -p 'MySuperSecr3tPass123!' -s '/home/foo/ps1_scripts/' -e '/home/foo/exe_files/'
gem install bundlergit clone https://github.com/Hackplayers/evil-winrm.gitcd evil-winrm && bundle install --path vendor/bundlebundle exec evil-winrm.rb -i 192.168.1.100 -u Administrator -p 'MySuperSecr3tPass123!' -s '/home/foo/ps1_scripts/' -e '/home/foo/exe_files/'
docker run --rm -ti --name evil-winrm -v /home/foo/ps1_scripts:/ps1_scripts -v /home/foo/exe_files:/exe_files -v /home/foo/data:/data oscarakaelvis/evil-winrm -i 192.168.1.100 -u Administrator -p 'MySuperSecr3tPass123!' -s '/ps1_scripts/' -e '/exe_files/'
If you don't want to put the password in clear text, you can optionally avoid to set -p argument and the password will be prompted preventing to be shown.
To use IPv6, the address must be added to /etc/hosts. Just put the already set name of the host after -i argument instead of an IP address.
upload local_filename or upload local_filename destination_filenamedownload remote_filename or download remote_filename destination_filename