Hello aspiring ethical hackers. In our previous blogpost, you learnt what is a payload and about what is a payload generator. In this blogpost, you will learn about one of the payload generators, Arcanus Framework. Arcanus is a customized payload generator that can generate payloads which are undetectable by almost all of the antiviruses (till date ). This could be very useful in penetration testing.
Let’s see how to use Arcanus Framework. To install this tool on Kali Linux, we need to install golang. Install Golang and then clone the Arcanus repository from Github as shown below.
Navigate to the ARCANUS directory created and view its contents. We should see a file ARCANUS_x86. Let’s first generate a Windows payload. We will generate a x_86 payload. First change its permissions as shown below.
Next run this file. You should see an ARCANUS logo as shown below.
You will see five options as shown below. Since we are generating a Windows payload, we will choose option 2.
It will prompt you to set the attacker system’s IP address ( in our case the address of Kali Linux ) and a port on which you want to start a listener for the reverse shell. Enter the values and hit “Enter”.
It will generate the payload and automatically start a listener as shown below.
The payload will be generated with the name “payload.exe” as shown below in the ARCANUS directory.
Next we need to send this payload to the victim using Social engineering. When the target user clicks on the payload we sent, we will get a shell on the target system as shown below.
That’ s all in Windows hacking with Arcanus. Now let’s see how to generate a payload for Linux target. Select the option 3 since we are generating a Linux payload.
The rest of the steps are same as generating a Windows payload. Enter your IP address (Kali Linux in this case) and the listening port as shown below.
It will generate the payload in the same directory start to automatically listen for a reverse shell as shown below.
Send the generated payload to our victim. When he executes it, we should get a shell on his system as shown below.
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hello there
please write me down step by step installation of arcanus framework. Have just reinstalled my kali linux with 2021 iso,and when i try to install it,its shows errors,zsh,permission denied,what should i do please. Thank you
Thank you for informing. We will rewrite this soon.
Coming to your error, run the command with SUDO privileges and try.