Windows Download Methods
The Windows-native ways to pull a file when you have a shell on a Windows host: certutil, bitsadmin, PowerShell Invoke-WebRequest, WebClient, and the in-memory IEX cradle, with an honest look at how defenders see each one.
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SMB File Transfer
Move files to and from a Windows target over SMB: stand up a share with impacket-smbserver, then pull, run, and push back with native copy / net use or smbclient. Quick reference with a modular cheat sheet and per-command breakdowns.
SCP and SSH File Transfer
The scp and sftp quick reference: flags, a modular copy-paste cheat sheet, and a worked breakdown of every real transfer. Upload and download, copy a directory with -r, authenticate with a recovered key, hop through a jump host, pipe over ssh when scp is missing, and verify with a checksum.
Netcat File Transfer
The netcat file-transfer quick reference: flags, a modular cheat sheet, and worked breakdowns. Listen and save, connect and send, close cleanly with -N or -q0, stream a directory with tar, encrypt with socat OPENSSL, fall back to bash /dev/tcp when nc is missing, and checksum to catch truncation.
HTTP File Transfer
The HTTP file-transfer quick reference: serve a folder from your attacker box in one line, then pull files onto the target with wget, curl, certutil, PowerShell, or curl.exe. Flags, a modular cheat sheet, in-memory execution, upload-back with updog, checksum verification, and beating egress filters by serving on 80 or 443.
Getting Files onto a Target
The file-transfer quick reference: the serve-and-pull vs push-and-receive decision, a modular copy-paste cheat sheet, and a worked breakdown of every method. Serve a folder over HTTP, pull with wget or certutil, host an SMB share, move a file with netcat or socat, copy over scp, paste a base64 blob, and checksum both ends.
base64 File Transfer
The base64 file-transfer quick reference: flags, a modular copy-paste cheat sheet, and a worked breakdown of every real situation. Encode a file to one pasteable line, decode it with a heredoc, move files with certutil or PowerShell on Windows, chunk a blob too long to paste, and checksum both ends to prove it arrived intact.