Hands-On Web Penetration Testing with Metasploit

Setting up payload handling in MSF

Before launching the module, we need to set up the handler. This handler is a stub that's used to handle the exploits that are launched outside Metasploit Framework:

1. The handler module is loaded by typing the use exploit/multi/handler command:

2. Next, we view the available options using the show options command, as shown in the following screenshot:

As we can see, the options are currently empty. These options are loaded once we define a payload. For example, we will use the windows/x64/meterpreter/reverse_tcp ...