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Mastering Metasploit

By : Nipun Jaswal
Book Image

Mastering Metasploit

By: Nipun Jaswal

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering Metasploit
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Post-exploitation with Armitage


Armitage makes post-exploitation as easy as clicking on a button. In order to execute post-exploitation modules, right-click on the exploited host and choose Meterpreter 5 as follows:

Choosing Meterpreter will present all the post-exploitation modules in sections. Suppose we want to elevate privileges or gain system-level access, we will navigate to the Access submenu and click on the appropriate button depending upon our requirement.

The Interact submenu will provide options of getting a command prompt, another meterpreter, and so on. The Explore submenu will provide options such as Browse Files, Show Processes, Log Keystrokes, Screenshot, Webcam Shot, and Post Modules, which are used to launch other post-exploitation modules that are not present in these submenus. This is shown in the following screenshot:

Let's run a simple post-exploitation module by clicking on Browse Files, as shown in the following screenshot:

We can easily upload, download, and view any...