How To Make Symlink Manually by Weevely | Tutorial | Backtrack 5 R3

What is Symlink ?

Symlink is a process of creating shortcuts of files/directories in a linux environment, same as creating shortcut icons in windows OS.

Types of Symlink:-

• There are two types of symlink: hardlink and softlink

Softlink just creates a shortcut of the target location file/program/dir, whereas hardlink creates a shortcut to the inode harddrive location of the file.

What is Weevely ?

Weevely is a stealth PHP web shell that simulate telnet-like connection. It is an essential tool for web application post exploitation, and can be used as stealth backdoor or as a web shell to manage legit web accounts, even free hosted ones.

So Lets Begin:-

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• First make a backdoor by weevely and execute it by following this tutorial www.computerkorner.org/2012/08/how-to-make-backdoor-using-weevely.html. 
• After execution, it will look like this

• Then, open this directory /etc/passwd, by executing a command cat /etc/passwd

Note:- If etc/passwd directory is not readable then upload this php script and execute it [In the box type /etc/passwd].

• Make a directory with mkdir hacked
• Enter into the directory with cd hacked
• To create a symlink ( softlink ) of any user, run this command ln -s [user path with configuration file]  xyz.txt

Note:- 

• User path means user's directory, where all files are saved of a particular user.
• Configuration file means, where all database information are stored. By Default, for Joomla sites, configuration file is saved as configuration.php and for wordpress, configuration file is saved as wp-config.php.

Note: This will take a long time compared to a symlink shell, but will be useful when there are problems uploading files restricted with file size where a small shell is required to upload to get access, and then backdoor with weevly to get CLI access and then symlink manually to get configuration of all users in the servers that are readable.

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