Pivoting Tunneling

Pivoting

• moving to other networks through a compromised host
• find more targets on different network segments

Tunneling

• a subset of pivoting
• encapsulates network traffic into another protocol
• routes traffic through it
• VPNs, specialized browsers
• E.g. using HTTP/HTTPS GET POST to mask our C2 traffic

NIC (ifconfig)

• tun0 interface - VPN is active
• eth0 - a public routable IP address

Routing - Checking Route Tables

netstat -r