Additional post exploitation modules

Metasploit offers 250+ post-exploitation modules. However, we will only cover a few interesting ones and will leave the rest for you.

Gathering wireless SSIDs with Metasploit

Wireless networks around the target system can be discovered easily using the wlan_bss_list module. This allows us to fingerprint location and other important information about the target as follows:

Gathering wireless SSIDs with Metasploit

Gathering Wi-Fi passwords with Metasploit

Similar to the preceding module, we have the wlan_profile module, which gathers all saved credentials for Wi-Fi from the target system. We can use the module as follows:

We can see the name of the network ...

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