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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

Breakthrough meterpreter scripting


The meterpreter shell is the deadliest thing that a victim can hear if an attacker compromises their system. Meterpreter gives the attacker a much wider approach to perform a variety of tasks on the compromised system. In addition to this, meterpreter has many built-in scripts, which makes it easier for an attacker to attack the system. These scripts perform simple and tedious tasks on the compromised system. In this section, we will look at those scripts, what they are made of, and how we can leverage a script in meterpreter.

Essentials of meterpreter scripting

As far as we have seen, we have used meterpreter in situations where we needed to perform some additional tasks on the system. However, now we will look at some of the advanced situations that may arise during a penetration test, where...