PsExec runs remote GUI as black screen - Windows7

Question

I've recently been following through the book, "Black hat python", it's been alright but when I try the get_mac function the console spits out an error, specifically:

NameError: name 'get_mac' is not defined". 

I am not sure if this just is a Linux based issue.

Code:

from scapy.all import *
import os
import sys
import threading
import signal

interface="en1"
target_ip="10.0.0.17"
gateway_ip="10.0.0.138"
packet_count=1000

# set up our interface
conf.iface=interface

# turn off input
conf.verg=0

print"[*] Setting up %s"%interface

gateway_mac=get_mac(gateway_ip)

Solution 1

Be sure to set the -u and -p for domain\user and password on the remote PC. I was having the same issue and figured out that setting the user corrected the issue.

Solution 2

Try to use the -s switch, it worked for me.

psexec //remoteMachine -s -i kioskApp.exe

The -s switch is for ruuning the process as SYSTEM user, so I know it could be weird to combine those parameters, but it works!

Solution 3

Have you thought of setting up a scheduled task to run the program? You can use the "BUILTIN\Users" User when you create the task to have it run as the logged on user. Doing it this way would allow you to use group policy to send it out instead of depending an admin computer launching the program.

I'll warn you now that it will take some time and testing to get setup, but it is extremely powerful. I'd only try it if you can't get PSexec to work.

Comments

[Mark Reed]

No such function. Was it maybe defined earlier in the book?

[Bad Neighbor]

I had been running into Jacob Spire's issue. All I wanted was to display a text file on a user's screen, just to make sure I had the parameters correct. To display a text file on a Windows PC: psexec \\PcName -s -h -i 1 notepad.exe c:\hello.txt

[Peter Wirdemo]

This worked for me, thanks! It did not matter if I already was running the console as admin, I had to add the -u option and manually enter my pw, and the black screen on remote computer was gone!

[Boris]

That does not work when i insert it into my current code, I receive this error: "TypeError: getnode() takes no arguments (1 given)"

[Vasyl Moskalov]

I add a link to similar question on stackoverflow with another recipe. Try this one.

[tripleee]

I also notice that you transcribed conf.verb (as in verbose) incorrectly.

[tripleee]

The import * is obviously also poor style.

[41686d6564 stands w. Palestine]

This one is better than using -s because in most cases you wouldn't need (or want) to run the process in the System account.