linux-pentester-commands
Fail
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Sep 17, 2026
Risk Level: CRITICALREMOTE_CODE_EXECUTIONCOMMAND_EXECUTIONPRIVILEGE_ESCALATIONPERSISTENCEEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSDYNAMIC_EXECUTION
Full Analysis
- [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill instructs users to download a repository from an unverified GitHub account (
HIMANSHUSHARMA20/Linux-for-a-Pentester) for offline access and testing purposes. - [REMOTE_CODE_EXECUTION]: The documentation provides multiple ready-to-use reverse shell payloads including:
- Bash one-liners using
/dev/tcpredirection. - Netcat commands with the
-eflag and named pipe (mkfifo) alternatives. - Python and PHP scripts designed to establish outbound network connections and spawn interactive shells.
- [PERSISTENCE]: The skill includes several persistence techniques:
- The installation process modifies the user's shell profile (
~/.bashrc) to add an alias. - Detailed commands for adding SSH keys to
authorized_keys. - Instructions for creating a hidden backdoor user account with sudo privileges.
- Commands to establish persistent reverse shells via root crontab entries.
- [PRIVILEGE_ESCALATION]: Extensive guidance on bypassing security controls and gaining root access is provided, including:
- Identification and exploitation of SUID/SGID binaries.
- Sudo bypass techniques targeting specific vulnerabilities (CVE-2019-14287).
- Exploitation of
LD_PRELOADenvironment variables to inject malicious shared libraries. - [DYNAMIC_EXECUTION]: The skill provides a workflow for runtime compilation of C source code into a shared object (
.so) file usinggcc, which is then used for privilege escalation viaLD_PRELOAD. - [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill details methods for log cleanup and anti-forensics, such as clearing
bash_historyand truncating system log files likeauth.logandsyslogto hide activity.
Recommendations
- CRITICAL: 1 infected file(s) detected - DO NOT USE
- CRITICAL: 1 file(s) identified as malware by FileRep - DO NOT USE
- AI detected serious security threats
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