Mastering Metasploit

Advanced extended features of Metasploit

Throughout this chapter, we've covered a lot of post exploitation. Let's now cover some of the advanced exploitation features of Metasploit in this section.

Privilege escalation using Metasploit

During the course of a penetration test, we often run into situations where we have limited access and if we run commands such as hashdump, we might get the following error:

In such cases, if we try to get system privileges with the getsystem command, we get the following errors:

So, what shall we do in these cases? ...