Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook

Chapter 5. Using Meterpreter to Explore the Compromised Target

In this chapter, we will cover the following:

• Analyzing meterpreter system commands
• Privilege escalation and process migration
• Setting up multiple communication channels with the target
• Meterpreter filesystem commands
• Changing file attributes using timestomp
• Using meterpreter networking commands
• The getdesktop and keystroke sniffing
• Using a scraper meterpreter script

Introduction

So far we have laid more stress on the pre-exploitation phase in which we tried out various techniques and exploits to compromise our target. In this chapter, we will lay stress on the post-exploitation phase—what we can do after we have exploited the target machine. Metasploit provides a very powerful post-exploitation ...