hickok 0.1.1

Reverse-shell handler & post-exploitation console — the eights to wraith's aces.

hickok

A reverse-shell handler and post-exploitation console. Catch shells on multiple listeners, run commands, upgrade to a full PTY, and generate reverse-shell one-liners — from one dependency-free CLI.

It's the other half of a hand: wraith holds the aces — it does the recon and proves the way in; hickok brings the eights — it acts on what wraith caught. Aces and eights, the dead man's hand.

Install

pipx install hickok

Or from a clone: pip install -e . — or run it with no install at all: PYTHONPATH=src python3 -m hickok.

Usage

The listener is the default command, so a bare hickok starts catching shells:

hickok                                   # listen on :9001, drop into the console
hickok -l 9001,9002 --lhost 10.10.14.7   # multiple listeners, fixed LHOST
hickok payloads 10.10.14.7 9001          # print reverse-shell one-liners
hickok hand wraith-runs/<run>/findings.json   # act on what wraith caught

Inside the console:

hickok>
  sessions          list connected shells
  payloads          reverse-shell one-liners for your LHOST
  cmd 1 id          run a command on session 1
  upgrade 1         turn a dumb shell into a PTY
  interact 1        attach (detach with Ctrl-])
  kill 1            drop a session

The bridge — hickok hand

Point hickok at a wraith run's findings.json and it reads the table: it lists what wraith found and flags every finding that means code execution (command injection, SSTI, …) — those are the doors to a shell.

hickok hand wraith-runs/target.com-<ts>/findings.json

  [Critical] Command Injection in 'host'   http://target/ping   ⮕ shell
  [High]     SSTI in 'name'                http://target/render ⮕ shell
  [High]     Reflected XSS in 'q'          http://target/search

      ┌─────┐   ┌─────┐   ┌─────┐   ┌─────┐
      │ A♠  │   │ A♣  │   │ 8♠  │   │ 8♣  │
      └─────┘   └─────┘   └─────┘   └─────┘

  aces and eights — the dead man's hand.

wraith deals the aces; hickok brings the eights. The hand is complete.

Disclaimer

Built for authorized security testing and research — point it where you're meant to. What anyone does with it from there is theirs alone; the author takes no responsibility for misuse.

License

MIT.

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in memory of J.B. Hickok — shot holding aces and eights, Deadwood, 1876.