catch EVERY reverse shell while hacking! (VILLAIN)

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00:00 Villain
02:21 About Villain
04:17 Setup
04:50 Shellcrafting
07:42 Sending the payload
09:09 Multiplayer hacking
11:55 HQ Ownership
15:59 A few more features
16:53 Final thoughts
18:05 Closing out

[@_JohnHammond]

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[@builder481]

Hey John are you going to do Advent of Cyber for 2022?

[@gg-gg-gg-gg]

John you should consider uploading your videos to Nebula, you'd make a good addition

[@gamingravan1713]

how to remove that windows backdoor from your system

[@builder481]

@@gamingravan1713 do you have a virus?

[@gamingravan1713]

@@builder481 nope just trying to know what would be the solution for if I want it to remove from one of my windows vms

[@HaxorTechTones]

The inspiration and "try harder" attitude to create Villain came from the video you made about hoaxshell. For that reason, as well as your remarkable effort to educate people in IT/Cybersec for a decade now, I dedicate Villain to you. Thank you🙏

[@janmbaez]

Really thank you marchus for creating this awesome tool, keep up the great work!

[@brianb5723]

Thank you, you're a legend!

[@upcomingKang]

i love you sir but one question how did you learn writing your own script can you start a series on this i have asked this to john hammond sir but he didn't respond to that at all so i want you to do it sir it will be really great for the people like me.

[@__lasevix_]

@@upcomingKang Try searching for python beginner tutorials

[@dedsec5271]

I know a legend when I see one 🫡

[@Zerback]

Thank you T3l3Machus and John for the amazing tool and usual 10 out of 10 quality education !

[@Boolap1337]

I love his tools but I love even more your explanations and tutorials. You guys complement each other.

[@tanja84dk1]

Thank you very much for showcasing that. Tbh I have actually really been looking for a framework like that to when ever I play ctf's ( specially if I ever are going to attend where its teams agenst teams ) so its great to have it in my tools folder

[@vnm2514]

As always love to watch your videos and see how excited you are about new tools. Keep the great work up.

[@StrokeMahEgo]

Definitely love the multiplayer aspect, much like cobalt strike's team server concept. Very useful for actual red team engagements where there's multiple operators.

[@konfushon]

the small differences in this video like the sound track used and the "waves shennanigans on John's head" at the bottom right corner is kinda slick though 👌

[@janekmachnicki2593]

Great tutorial John H. Thanks for your effort to help less advanced hackers or IT lovers understand some of the tricks .

[@Entre_Latidos]

Regards from Dominican Republic 🇩🇴. I think your channel is pretty cool and I've learned a lot since I found this Channel, I was stuck with the Reverse Shell thing, but thanks to you I got out of that corner, brother. THANK YOU!.

[@struggle375]

Damn John the production quality is on point!

[@hongkonghacker]

Windows defender already blocked those payload after few days later.

[@faran4536]

Loved the video quality, especially your cam circle effects when you speak!

[@bawalicoder1233]

totally loved the video😍 btw great editing

[@gamblezz101]

This is genius! Kudos to the dev.

[@Bobtb]

Thanks for introducing this awesome tool John.

[@hawk__]

A dude said in a previous vid of your "John doesn't need fancy thumbnails, has face does it all" and yeah it really does, man! Keep putting nice content 🙂, coool tool. That OTP thing is the coolest one. You haven't done any writeups lately though ;) + Video is nice enough, editing, music. If possible plz share pc specs the one which is running 1 host + 4 vms without any lag.

[@grayshell8928]

as always, great video John. Good tool for testing

[@JeffNoel]

Realizing your video is sponsored by HTB Academy is pretty cool! CPTS is probably my next thing to work on if I pass OSCP on December 12th :D

[@_ismail8880]

did you pass?

[@JeffNoel]

@@_ismail8880 I did! I missed one flag but for the bonus points so 100/110 points. The course material is on point and is perfect to prepare your for the exam content.

[@_AN203]

Hey John.. I am back ! And that voice interactive background that you have on your thumb during the video... Does sell the HTB theme.. And hey.. Another C2 framework to the arsenal... Pretty cool..

[@nixcutus]

Used this tool last month and it was super dope.

[@johnb3170]

John from another John...you are a legend. Coming from and education and training background to cyber warfare now a security researcher. You encompass everything good in our industry. Keep it up! See you around!

[@gezzadaverealstuffonlyboth8915]

Hey , I'm learning cyber warfare at the moment, but need some good software as I was helping a young mum getting bullied and was raped , so said I'll sort it out and protect your network till hes moves on , well he payed few different hackers , and they was good , 3 atack me from different countries, not sure if they new each other, but it took 3 days 2 hours sleep they burt out 4 laptop 3 pc towers , my 9 year old boys plug the earth burnt where it burst the plug like it was cheap plastic, I'm still with nothing but my phone, they got everything cloud haswell, so I lost everything's, and was going to give up, but seeing your comment, the only one in 7 years , so hi there and sorry for asking but my eyes lit up 🤝

[@Canarddu38]

Ducksploit is a similar tool

[@HerozTech]

I love the new editing style❣

[@sam-sw8zw]

love your content the hacking b-role had me laughing this episode lol

[@karkantas]

Your content is improving like a super sayian after each video.

[@_JohnHammond]

SUPER duper thankful for our new editor and the phenomenal work they are doing -- all credit to @Nordgaren!!

[@user-jg2zv1yr1z]

I like you very much Mr.John Hammond. You are always teach us new things. Thanks

[@toolbgtools]

cool tool! and lot of room for improvements

[@adesopekingsley9967]

The most amazing thing to me is thar the whole script was written with python.... amazing 👏🙀 great to see this ... I subscribed

[@MartinGaertner]

Great howto! you a very good teatcher! perfect video, make more for this i love it!

[@samfisher8426]

i been using this for a week so far .. i have tested it on many OS versions ,windows 7 - 10 -11 / linux ,always bypass any fiirewall/defender never let me down ,the good thing that i can get multiple reverse shell just in one click ,without having to setup a new listener for each reverse shell payload ... thats really amazing tool

[@fdert]

I like the new editing!

[@waqxddgytdcvjj8678]

I’m as hyped as you John!

[@benary5620]

That looks really interesting. Question: let's say I generate a linux payload and put it on my (remote) laptop; will it automatically connect if I start my local Villain _after_ that remote machine has run its crontab? Or would it be sufficient to run it every 5 (or so) minutes on the remote machine, so once I start my local Villain, it will take 4:59 secs max to connect (in that case, will the remote machine's crontab kill any active sessions once the payload runs again??)?

[@DavidCosta85]

thanks for your videos. very much appreciated

[@cyberdevil657]

Aswome stuff Jhon I really respect you!

[@hackwrld1895]

bro going from the intro mekody to your voice in this video.. its just too dope, I saw the video many times just because of that😂🤣

[@Neuer_Alias_erstellen]

something is slick: JohnH: that's cool

[@marineplaysairsoft]

now THIS is verrrry niiiiiice

[@torsec6048]

And now john detailed video arrived :) go go john Hammond

[@juliusrowe9374]

Super dope content John!

[@trevor.viljoen]

This has a very Metasploit look and feel to it.

[@refaiabdeen5943]

Cheers Mate.

[@a_h_m_e_d_43112]

This is what i was waiting for

[@yacce4463]

This is cool, but relying on "curl" all the time? Would be awesome to have different revshell payloads relying on different programs. I've hit several machines where "curl" or "wget" wasn't available, mostly if running on a container environment. Awesome work t3l3machus and John!

[@SatheeshJenne2658]

Thank u so much.. please do more videos..

[@kashoo_1]

Thanks John ✌💥

[@alldev]

I like the video but i have a simple question will it be a persist session or not

[@AnacardiumOcidentale]

Very nice piece of tool. Does it runs on a Raspberry pi? Gonna try to install it on mine...

[@theequalizer7297]

Thank you very much 🙏My S14 Flip laptop. I was working and left it for a few minutes. When I came back, I was surprised to be asked for a new PIN code and that the old one was disabled and could not be accessed (explorer.exe - System Error). The system detected an overrun of a stack-based buffer in this application. This overrun could potentially allow a malicious user to gain control of this application) I felt frustrated and spent 9 hours trying to solve the problem, but the problem was not solved, and I do not know what is the reason for this problem. By the way, it is a completely new laptop that has been in service for only 4 months, an Asus S14Flip Ryzen 5600 laptop, a Radeon card, and RAM. 8 JB and its performance was very slow when browsing websites, but I noticed that sometimes its temperature increased.

[@sagiadir]

Thank you ! its alway great to watch your videos !!!!!

[@Rojawa]

Just saw a talk about hoaxshell on which a penetrationtester was hyping it up so much only to not work anymore after two days because everyone burned the signature haha. So interesting to see the new shell framework. Lets see for how long its working on engagements :D

[@Alexis82]

Powershell script blocked of internal antivirus!

[@trustedsecurity6039]

@@Alexis82 lmao stop using buzz word like you know what it means

[@trustedsecurity6039]

It was by the author... every open source tool will be burned like that

[@Alexis82]

@@trustedsecurity6039 I know exactly what I'm saying, don't worry about me!

[@trustedsecurity6039]

@@Alexis82 nope you dont...

[@jeonghutamilim2259]

If this works as intended, it could be great rat for headless servers or remotely assisting friends. Gotta play around.

[@michaelblenkinsop9038]

nice intro to HTB

[@fireloks6362]

got it to work. I just needed to change permissions

[@AgustinLozada]

The example you shown are all on same subnet, what if its a segmented network?

[@Cypherx444]

Hey John please help me there is an eror while executing this it shows modulenotfound crypto please 🙏 reply

[@Pwnedby]

I’m building a software exactly like this. I have a few more feature than this but I might implement some techniques which was being used. Thank you for sharing this!

[@neppusstreams]

Looks good! What happened to pwncat tho?

[@ChristopherEGr33n33]

0:02 the old reverse shell "hanlder" 🤣

[@jawadsher1062]

Hey John i think 🤔 this is help full in OSCP

[@SumanRoy.official]

Great tool but they need to generate unique obfuscated payloads that bypass every AV and Security endpoints like Crowdstrike and others.

[@ThatNateGuy]

Villain's output reminds me a lot of PowerShell. I dig. Thanks for showing this tool off, John! 🙂

[@trustedsecurity6039]

Lmao it is powershell output for Windows...

[@ThatNateGuy]

@@trustedsecurity6039 I did not know that!

[@gokul5582]

My question is anyone of my victim will dare to paste suspicious lines on their cmd? Is there any other way to deliver it? Practically will it work?

[@zeloigl]

what did u do at the cut at 4:49 im struggling to figure it out ive tried everything can anyone help it says module 'Crypto' not found so i checked the crypto file and the c is lowercase but doesnt let me change it to uppercase as it says file location was moved????

[@shenetworks]

very cool!

[@bhagyalakshmi1053]

How many maintenance the handling files open

[@maxbunnies]

Hi John can you tell me what Glasses you have :)

[@tech_raj]

Nice sir Thank you

[@Hackedme-ce8fe]

Just a question, can i do rce on servers using those generated payload?

[@noviccen388]

can yo do meterpreter payload with it?

[@boh70326]

How many hours htb course consists of ? Not clear, just said 28modules Thanks

[@brianb5723]

Another A+ incredible content and instruction step-through by John. I found the audio pulses around your camera preview a little distracting, though!

[@_JohnHammond]

Good to note, thank you! We're experimenting with some of those new flashy video effects and thought we would test the water with the audio visualizer around the face cam. I had a thought it might be too distracting from the content, but wanted to try it in the wild. We will think on it and see if we can scheme up some other nice quality-of-life touches!

[@HAGSLAB]

I agree. Not a huge issue, but it was the first thing I noticed and not really in a good way. I've always appreciated the simplicity of your content. Simple as in few elements on screen and straightforward editing.

[@Leo_Aqua]

Can you make a video on how to get a reverse shell from a webserver without php?

[@Cypherx444]

hey john please help me it's not working while executing it's shows error of crypto module not found

[@Kobayashi423]

Can i use hack the box using windows?

[@joaopaulomendesdecarvalho]

Great!

[@kal_dev]

I like this one, fastly and easier

[@bbowling619]

a turtle in a turtle ? Dude is mentor !!!

[@drvoip]

Generating connectivity between two endpoints on a private network seems to be the dominant theme on KZbin. Educational and informative, but how about showing how any of the tools work over the Internet, with firewalls and the usual network basic security practices in place?

[@drentrepreneur_ng]

Hello Dr. how can I access your PhD thesis?

[@larva5606]

i took a shot every time he said "slick" 🥴

[@BobbyBobBob69]

Hey I don’t wanna sound stupid, but I can’t copy between my Kali vm and my Ubuntu vm? When I’ve got only one vm open the guest isolation can copy and paste but when there’s more then one I can’t?

[@raghulmanikandan]

what's wrong with Metasploit and Empire?

[@bhagyalakshmi1053]

Window paword+linux paword equal password attending and different tightening in the password, same password in the continue.

[@Iampopg]

Does it bypass windows defender?

[@jdogdarkness]

I couldn't get program to run said a few things then "no module naked Crypto"

[@memejamas3818]

excelente tool thanks

[@imurovtsev]

ssh -R to your temp vps/vds not work more? What if the victim doesn't have a white IP address?

[@luismarrero9293]

hello John thanks for this amazing video as always. i tried this villain but when i tried to open it i got required argument PAYLOAD not supplied any help

[@ravananasuran]

then it is super helpful for battle ground in htb

[@jorisschepers85]

Great video again John, but please ditch the soundbars around the webcam feed.

[@_JohnHammond]

Appreciate the feedback, thank you! We're experimenting with some of those new flashy video effects and thought we would test the water with the audio visualizer around the face cam. I had a thought it might be too distracting from the content, but wanted to try it in the wild. We will think on it and see if we can scheme up some other nice quality-of-life touches!

[@jorisschepers85]

@@_JohnHammond you don't need all those flashy things. Content is A+. Keep doing you

[@nielwerking6744]

Is this tool allowed in OSCP?

[@cipher3966]

Do you instantly change your outfit and film the Advent of Cyber after recording this?

[@Cypherx444]

It is not working in windows

[@AlexMercersRevenge]

This tutorial is all well and good, but how does one get a potential target to practically click on a payload? I seriously dought some rando layperson is going to go into powershell/cmd and copy/paste that long ass command line into it on their own volition lol.

[@mav7284]

My windows 10 blocked the script.. So I have to turn off the virus defender only can run the backdoor script..:(

[@sugestiesti]

Copy to clipboard failed. You need to do it manually. generate failed

[@ibrahimyosif]

i love you john but please turn off sound wave thingy surrounding your frame.

[@sauron89]

It doesn't work with Kaspersky endpoint