Improving your Penetration Testing Skills

Getting ready

As we saw in the previous recipe, Meterpreter provides us with a specific command named execute, which can be used to start multiple communication channels. To start with, let's run the execute –h command to see the available options:

meterpreter > execute -hUsage: execute -f file [options]

This executes a command on the remote machine. The following are the options:

• -H: Creates the process hidden from view
• -a <opt>: The arguments to pass to the command
• -c: Channelized I/O (required for interaction)
• -d <opt>: The dummy executable to launch when using -m
• -f <opt>: The executable command to run
• -h: Help menu
• -i: Interact with the process after creating it
• -k: Execute the process on the Meterpreter's current desktop
• -m: Execute ...