Posts are used in post-exploitation (after successfully exploiting the system). You can find the post-exploitation modules in /usr/share/metasploit-framework/modules/post, or you can just type show post in the Metasploit console:
msf> show post
To know more about a post, use the info command. For example, if you want to learn more about the golden_ticket post module, just type info post/windows/escalate/golden_ticket:
This amazing tool also gives you the freedom to load your own modules using the loadpath command:
