PowerSploit is a collection of PowerShell modules that historically served as a toolkit for post-exploitation tasks, red-team exercises, and offensive-security research—covering areas like reconnaissance, lateral movement, persistence, and situational awareness. The repository bundles many focused scripts: code to enumerate system and Active Directory information, payload generation helpers, in-memory execution utilities, and modules to interact with credentials and services. Because the modules can be used to both demonstrate weaknesses and to exploit them, the project is typically referenced in threat emulation, penetration testing, and defensive research to understand attacker capabilities. Responsible use centers on authorized assessments: defenders use the toolkit to validate monitoring and detection, while operators apply its lessons to patch, harden, and instrument systems.
Features
- Execute code on a target machine
- Injects a Dll into the process ID of your choosing
- Reflectively loads a Windows PE file (DLL/EXE) in to the powershell process, or reflectively injects a DLL in to a remote process
- Injects shellcode into the process ID of your choosing or within PowerShell locally
- Executes a PowerShell ScriptBlock on a target computer and returns its formatted output using WMI as a C2 channel
- Modify and/or prepare scripts for execution on a compromised machine