Metasploit VS php-reverse-shell

Metasploit

Metasploit: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework

1-) Learn Hacking on a debian based distro like Kali Linux - I personally started with tools like nikto, camhacker... and then moved to more complex frameworks like metasploit.

I once had to give a presentation about Metasploit, and whether it was ethically correct for the creator to make it free and open-source, available to everyone. And in researching this I realized that there were a lot of parallels between the arguments for or against hacking tools being readily available and the arguments for or against gun control. I'll just list a few quickly:

Metasploit Framework (mentioned earlier)

This phase is where the pen testers practically prove that there exist potential vulnerabilities in the target system. The pen testers do the hacking using an array of technical approaches and social engineering methods to exploit the vulnerabilities. The ethical hackers commonly use Metasploit framework to automatically execute exploitation against the target systems. Moreover, they may install malwares such as rootkit to persistently maintain their foothold and further compromise the target system.

"ubu" is my VM host, and "kali" is my local machine that has a reverse shell. However, when I run the above command on my machine, instead of getting access to the victim machine's shell, I am getting access to my own shell. I am using the shell code available at https://github.com/pentestmonkey/php-reverse-shell. Can you help me understand the reason behind this?

Using the same method as before, I used wget again to upload this PHP shell, and it worked when I navigated to it in the browser, which instantly gave me a shell.

The web is full of free PHP scripts, such as reverse shells, ready for use. Users only have to provide an IP (the attacker' server) and a port to listen connections. One of the most popular PHP shells is probably PenTest Monkey. It uses variables to store your custom configuration:

The code here we will replace it with php reverse shell Now we search on google “php reverse shell” and enter on first link PHP REVERSE SHELL Copy the code from this github repository and put here

please check your php-reverse-shell.php file permission I think its required root permission to edit it or if the problem continues then manually copy the whole program from here https://github.com/pentestmonkey/php-reverse-shell/blob/master/php-reverse-shell.php

You can find it here. Link: https://github.com/pentestmonkey/php-reverse-shell/blob/master/php-reverse-shell.php

The way I usually manually go about this is through a php reverse shell from pentestmonkey . All you have to do is login to the admin panel on the Wordpress site and replace the code in the 404 page with the reverse shell (don’t forget to change the IP and port variables in the shell). Then you set up your listener (you can use metasploit or just ‘nc -lvnp {port}’ and trigger the shell by visiting the 404 page.