Like Linux, Windows uses the cd (change directory) command. At its most basic, we need to change directories within the file system. In many ways, Windows CMD commands are similar to Linux/Unix commands (Unix preceded these commands by over a decade, and Microsoft borrowed heavily from it). In my case, I will be connecting to the target system with a Netcat connection, but a Metasploit-spawned command shell or other will work just as well. Here, we are only interested in those that can be run remotely. We can't assume that a command we can run while on the system will run remotely.
Windows makes a distinction between commands that can be run while physically on the system and those that can be run remotely. If you download a Copy of a windows 10 operating system. Step 1: Connect to a Remote Windows System from Kali Well, I am not super savvy in terms of hacking with CMD but there is a trick I can give you. I will be running the Windows commands from a remote Kali system on the target.
What I want to do in this tutorial is demonstrate some Windows commands on a Windows 7 system (Windows 7 is still over 50% of the installed base of Windows systems), but these commands change very little from Windows version to Windows version.
In these cases, you will need to understand how to control the system strictly through the command prompt, without ever having the convenience and familiarity of the Windows GUI.
Some exploits will only allow us to get a CMD shell on the target Windows system. As a hacker, you will often be forced to control the target system using just Windows commands and no GUI.Īlthough we would love to get Metasploit's Meterpreter on the target and use all its capabilities on the owned system, that is not always possible. Many new hackers come from a Windows background, but seldom, if ever, use its built-in command-line tools.