Highjack-Port is a tool written in C, designed to kill a process that is currently listening on a specified port.
Clone the repo or download:
$ git clone https://github.com/nou-man/highjack-port.gitCompile the C file:
$ gcc highjack.c -o highjack
or use the existing binary:
for running in current directory
$ ./highjack [port_number]
Linux
$ sudo cp /path/to/executable/highjack /usr/bin/
Mac
$
run after adding executable in bin.
$ highjack [port_number]
I have a friend who is into web development and sometimes when he had to host in his localhost, ports would be sometimes pre occupied with some unhandled services running from old tests, so everytime he had to run some series of commands and manually had to check for the process that has occupied the port, and remember the PID of the process and kill them using kill command.
what he had to run:
$ lsof -n -i :[port_number]
would show
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
nc 265938 hero 3u IPv4 1891870 0t0 TCP *:3000 (LISTEN)
then run
$ kill 265938
hero@kali:~$ highjack 3000
Preparing to kill the process with pid : 265938 ....
PID: 265938 has been killed
The 3000 port was occupied, so using the highhjack the port is highjacked by you now.