This article explains how the two types of connections, Reverse connection and Bind connection are made to get a shell on the box with Netcat utility. Ncat or Netcat is a feature-packed networking utility which reads and writes raw data across networks from the command line. A utility like Netcat helps us to get a reverse shell in multiple situations like getting shell while RCE in web applications, during post-exploitation, and many more.
The bind connection is that when you have to connect to the remote IP address and port number, which is, most of the time does not work due to the presence of a firewall at another end, which is blocking all incoming connections unless the port is in the exception list.
The bind connection is that when you have to connect to the remote IP address and port number, which is, most of the time does not work due to the presence of a firewall at another end, which is blocking all incoming connections unless the port is in the exception list.
