PowerShell

PowerShell is Windows new shell. It comes by default from Windows 7. But can be downloaded and installed in earlier versions.

• PowerShell provides access to almost everything an attacker might want.
• It is based on the .NET framework.
• It is basically bash for windows

Basics

So a command in PowerShell is called cmdlet. To get help on how to use a cmdlet while in PowerShell, the man-page, you do:

Get-Help    <cmdlet    name    |    topic    name>

Example

get-help echo
get-help get-command