Commands and Code Snippets I usually forget

Posted on Aug 4, 2019 · 307 words · 2 minute read

Some commands and code snippets I use rarely during CTFs or my daily work, but still I need them from time to time and I’m very lazy to remember them. This note may grow over time.

Javascript

Playing with dec, hexa and bin (not really) in JS
String.fromCharCode(0x41) // 'A'

parseInt('0xf', 16) // 15

var n = 15

n.toString(16) // 'f'  
n.toString(2) // '1111'  
n.toString() // '15'

var n = 'A'  
n.charCodeAt() // 65  
// dec to hex  
n.charCodeAt().toString(16) // '41'  
// dec to bin  
n.charCodeAt().toString(2) // '1000001'  
// dec to hex  
parseInt(255).toString(16) // 'ff'  
// dec to bin  
parseInt(5).toString(2) // '101'
Simple HTTP GET request using nodejs
const https = require('https');

https.get('https://www.alevsk.com', (resp) => {  
let data = "";  
resp.on('data', (chunk) => {  
data += chunk;  
});  
resp.on('end', () => {  
//DO something with data  
});  
}).on("error", (err) => {  
console.log("Error: " + err.message);  
});
Simple HTTP POST request using nodejs
const https = require('https')

const data = JSON.stringify({  
todo: 'Buy the milk'  
})

const options = {  
hostname: 'whatever.com',  
port: 443,  
path: '/todos',  
method: 'POST',  
headers: {  
'Content-Type': 'application/json',  
'Content-Length': data.length  
}  
}

const req = https.request(options, res => {  
res.on('data', d => {  
process.stdout.write(d)  
})  
})

req.on('error', error => {  
console.error(error)  
})

req.write(data)

req.end()
Extract content between regular expression patterns using JS
const message = data.match(/<p>([^<]+)<\/p>/)[1];  
const lat = data.match(/name="lat" value="([^<]+)" min=/)[1];  
const long = data.match(/name="lon" value="([^<]+)" min=/)[1];  
const token = data.match(/name="token" value="([^<]+)"/)[1];

Linux

Mount NTFS on Linux
mount -t ntfs [FILE] [PATH]  
mount -t type device directory
Extract extended attributes from NTFS disk
getfattr –only-values [FILE] -n [ATTR-NAME] > file
Parsing file with awk and run xargs
cat [FILE] | awk '{print $1 .. $n}' | xargs

Python

Start Simple HTTP server with Python
python -m SimpleHTTPServer
Inline Python commands
python -c 'print "\x41" * 20'

PHP

Run PHP interactive mode
php -a

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