RedGhost : Linux Post Exploitation Framework Designed To Assist Red Teams In Gaining Persistence, Reconnaissance & Leaving No Trace

RedGhost is a Linux post exploitation framework designed to assist red teams in persistence, reconnaissance, privilege escalation and leaving no trace.

  • Payloads

Function to generate various encoded reverse shells in netcat, bash, python, php, ruby, perl

  • SudoInject

Function to inject sudo command with wrapper function to run a reverse root shell everytime “sudo” is run for privilege escalataion

  • lsInject

Function to inject the “ls” command with a wrapper function to run payload everytime “ls” is run for persistence

  • Crontab

Function to create cron job that downloads payload from remote server and runs payload every minute for persistence

  • GetRoot

Function to try various methods to escalate privileges

  • Clearlogs

Function to clear logs and make investigation with forensics difficult

  • MassInfoGrab

Function to grab mass reconaissance/information on system

  • CheckVM

Function to check if the system is a virtual machine

  • MemoryExec

Function to execute remote bash script in memory

  • BanIp

Function to BanIp using iptables

Also Read – Ghostfuscator : The Python Password-Protected Obfuscator

Installation

one liner to install RedGhost:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/d4rk007/RedGhost/master/redghost.sh; chmod +x redghost.sh; ./redghost.sh

One liner to install prerequisites and RedGhost:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/d4rk007/RedGhost/master/redghost.sh; chmod +x redghost.sh; apt-get install dialog; apt-get install gcc; apt-get install iptables; ./redghost.sh

Prerequisites

  • Dialog
  • GCC
  • IPtables
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