Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook - Third Edition

How to do it...

1. Let's start by launching an interactive Ruby shell with Meterpreter in our Metasploitable 3 target machine session:

meterpreter > irb[*] Starting IRB shell[*] The "client" variable holds the meterpreter client >>

2. Now that we are in the Ruby shell, we can execute our Ruby scripts. Let's start with a basic addition of two numbers:

>> 1+1=> 2

3. Our shell is working fine and can interpret the statements. Let's use the framework object and display information about our session:

>> framework=> #<Framework (2 sessions, 0 jobs, 0 plugins, postgresql database active)>>> framework.sessions=> {3=>#<Session:meterpreter 192.168.216.10:49469 (192.168.216.10) "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM @ VAGRANT-2008R2">, 4=>#<Session:meterpreter 192.168.216.10:49470 ...