sftp

Upload or download files using SSH. This command is also executed by the SSHExecutor and therefor all ssh-related settings can be used. SSH-sessions can also be used with the sftp-command!

Note

This command caches all the settings so that they only need to be defined once.

vars:
  $SERVER_ADDRESS: 192.42.0.254
  $SSH_SERVER: 10.10.10.19

commands:
  - type: sftp
    cmd: put
    local_path: /tmp/linpeas.sh
    remote_path: /tmp/linpeas.sh
    hostname: $SSH_SERVER
    username: aecid
    key_filename: "/home/alice/.ssh/id_rsa"
    creates_session: "attacker"

  # cached ssh-settings. creates new ssh-connection
  - type: sftp
    cmd: get
    remote_path: /etc/passwd
    local_path: /tmp/remote_passwd

  # reuses existing session "attacker"
  - type: ssh
    session: "attacker"
    cmd: "id"
cmd

SFTP-command to use. Valid commands are put or get.

Type:

str

Required:

True

remote_path

The filepath on the remote machine.

Type:

str

Required:

True

local_path

The filepath on the local machine.

Type:

str

Required:

True

mode

The file permissions on the remote file(e.g. 755).

Type:

str

hostname

This option sets the hostname or ip-address of the remote ssh-server.

Type:

str

port

Port to connect to on the remote host.

Type:

int

Default:

22

username

Specifies the user to log in as on the remote machine.

Type:

str

password

Specifies the password to use. An alternative would be to use a key_file.

Type:

str

passphrase

Use this passphrase to decrypt the key_file. This is only necessary if the keyfile is protected by a passphrase.

Type:

str

key_filename

Path to the keyfile.

Type:

str

timeout

The timeout to drop a connection attempt in seconds.

Type:

float

clear_cache

Normally all settings for ssh-connections are cached. This allows to defined all settings in one command and all following commands can reuse these settings without set them in every single command. If a new connection with different settings should be configured, this setting allows to reset the cache to default values.

Type:

bool

Default:

False

Note

This setting will not clear the session store.

creates_session

A session name that identifies the session that is created when executing this command. This session-name can be used by using the option “session”

Type:

str

session

Reuse an existing ssh-session. This setting works only if another ssh-command was executed with the command-option “creates_session”

Type:

str

jmp_hostname

This option sets the hostname or ip-address of the remote jump server.

Type:

str

jmp_port

Port to connect to on the jump-host.

Type:

int

Default:

22

jmp_username

Specifies the user to log in as on the jmp-host.

Type:

str

Default:

same as username