Using connect instead of Netcat
Metasploit offers an excellent command named connect to provide features that are similar to the Netcat utility. Suppose a system shell is waiting for us to connect on a port at the target system, and we don't want to switch from our Metasploit console.
We can use the connect command to connect with the target by issuing the connect 192.168.10.23 8080 command, where 192.168.10.23 is the IP address and 8080 is the port to connect to, as shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 12.6 – Using Metasploit's connect command
We can see that we initialized a connection with the listener from within the Metasploit framework, which might come in handy when taking reverse connections at the target where the initial access hasn't been achieved through Metasploit.
Additionally, in a large-scale penetration test, we don't want to interact with the session straightaway after exploitation. Instead, we want...