Typhoeus

Reverse pivots are commonly used to circumvent firewall restrictions, like the following situations:

  • File upload/download
  • Exploit payload reverse shell
  • Facilitate further pivoting

Typhoeus contains the following pivoting applications and technologies:

  • Netcat
  • Socat
  • SSH
  • Chisel
  • SSF
  • Meterpreter

The objective for each level is to create a reverse pivot to catch the message from the target device.  Each message can be received using ncat with the SSL option.  The message will be the password for the next level.  An SSH connection to the pivot box will  be provided to run the necessary commands to set up the pivot application.  

ncat --ssl -nvlp <port>