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Powercat - An alternative to netcat coded in PowerShell

Netcat comes pre-installed in most Linux distributions. There is also a version for windows: download from https://nmap.org/download.html.

As for Windows machines, there's an alternative to netcat coded in PowerShell called PowerCat.

powercat is a powershell function. First you need to load the function before you can execute it. You can put one of the below commands into your powershell profile so powercat is automatically loaded when powershell starts.

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# Load The Function From Downloaded .ps1 File:
    . .\powercat.ps1

# Load The Function From URL:
    IEX (New-Object System.Net.Webclient).DownloadString('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/besimorhino/powercat/master/powercat.ps1')

But it's also installed in Kali at:

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/usr/share/powershell-empire/empire/server/data/module_source/management/powercat.ps1

Meaning that we can serve it from our kali:

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cp /usr/share/powershell-empire/empire/server/data/module_source/management/powercat.ps1 .

python3 -m http.server 80
Last update: 2025-12-14
Created: May 22, 2023 16:04:59