Introduction
1.1 Why PowerShell :
Powershell is a powerful built-in shell and scripting environment we can utilize as penetration testers considering its wide-spread availability on all modern Windows-based systems.
The use of Powershell allows us to take advantage of the “livingoff-the-land” concept, where using tools that are built-in to the Operating System work to our advantage once we’ve obtained access to a system.
There are many advantages to using Powershell as it relates to penetration testing, with some of them being:
Advantages (continued):
Having access to all of those things through Powershell helps us reduce our footprint and evade defense mechanisms while conducting post-exploitation tasks.
Powershell is also easy to use, and there are many scripts and frameworks written that we can utilize for our offensive purposes. Furthermore, it doesn’t take much to create our own scripts to carry out some of our tasks as we’ll see in the modules that follow.
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