@msolnicki said:
Well, no, if there was a pre-configured ssh access to the box, one could just use it instead of going through all those steps you described. Any binary you’ll upload will be gone with the reset, so ssh access doesn’t really seem like an overkill.
I’d disagree, I had a python script that authenticates on the service and initiates a reverse shell via the intended way in, much faster and quicker. Reconfiguring SSH is much longer process.
One liner that downloads a shell file and executes it is much faster and cleaner.