Download

The download command provides an easy way to exfiltrate files from the victim. All file transfers are made over the same connection as your shell, and there are no HTTP or raw socket ports needed to make these transfers. File transfers are accomplished by utilizing the gtfobins framework to locate file readers on the victim host and write the contents back over the pipe. In some cases, this includes and requires encoding the data on the victim end and automatically decoding on the attacking host.

The download command has a simply syntax which specifies the source and destination files only. The source file is a file on the remote host, which will be tab-completed at the pwncat prompt. The destination is a local file path on your local host which will be created (or overwritten if existing) with the content of the remote file.

Downloading the contents of /etc/hosts to a local file
download /etc/hosts ./victim-hosts