Penelope

Penelope is an advanced shell handler designed to replace netcat as the go-to reverse shell listener during penetration tests. Written in Python with zero external dependencies, it automatically upgrades received shells to fully interactive PTYs with tab completion, history, and job control - eliminating the manual 'python -c import pty' dance. Penelope handles multiple simultaneous shell sessions with a clean interface for switching between them, provides built-in file upload and download without needing to set up separate transfer servers, automatically logs all session activity for reporting, and can generate reverse shell payloads for various platforms and languages. It supports encrypted shells, can spawn listeners on multiple ports, and includes a command history searchable across sessions.