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Mastering Metasploit - Second Edition

By : Nipun Jaswal
Book Image

Mastering Metasploit - Second Edition

By: Nipun Jaswal

Overview of this book

Metasploit is a popular penetration testing framework that has one of the largest exploit databases around. This book will show you exactly how to prepare yourself against the attacks you will face every day by simulating real-world possibilities. We start by reminding you about the basic functionalities of Metasploit and its use in the most traditional ways. You’ll get to know about the basics of programming Metasploit modules as a refresher, and then dive into carrying out exploitation as well building and porting exploits of various kinds in Metasploit. In the next section, you’ll develop the ability to perform testing on various services such as SCADA, databases, IoT, mobile, tablets, and many more services. After this training, we jump into real-world sophisticated scenarios where performing penetration tests are a challenge. With real-life case studies, we take you on a journey through client-side attacks using Metasploit and various scripts built on the Metasploit framework. By the end of the book, you will be trained specifically on time-saving techniques using Metasploit.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering Metasploit
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Basic post exploitation commands


Core meterpreter commands are those that are available on most exploited systems using a meterpreter payload and that provide the basic core functionalities for post exploitation. Let's get started with some of the most basic commands that will help you get started with post-exploitation.

The help menu

We can always refer to the help menu to list all the various commands that are usable on the target by issuing help or ? as shown in the following screenshot:

Background command

While carrying out post exploitation, we may run into a situation where we need to perform additional tasks, such as testing for a different exploit or running a privilege escalation exploit. However, in order to achieve that we need to put our current meterpreter session in the background. We can do this by issuing the background command, as shown in the following screenshot:

We can see in the preceding screenshot that we successfully managed to put our session in the background and...