It can send back a shell to an attacker giving unauthorized remote shell access.
A binary with download capabilities.
binds to a certain port on the victim’s machine.
It can exfiltrate files on the victim’s machine.
It runs in privileged context and may be used to access the file system, escalate or maintain access with elevated privileges if enabled on sudo
.
A piece of code or a script running on a server that enables remote
It runs with the SUID bit set and may be exploited to access the file system, escalate or maintain access with elevated privileges working as a SUID backdoor. If it is used to run commands it only works on systems like Debian (<= Stretch) that allow the default sh
shell to run with SUID privileges.
This example creates a local SUID copy of the binary and runs it to maintain elevated privileges. To exploit an existing SUID binary skip the first command and run the program using its original path.