October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
12h 33m
English
book
Kali Linux 2018: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing - Fourth Edition
by Shiva V. N. Parasram, Alex Samm, Damian Boodoo, Gerard Johansen, Lee Allen, Tedi Heriyanto, Shakeel Ali
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The Meterpreter backdoor
The Metasploit meterpreter has the metsvc backdoor, which will allow you to get the meterpreter shell at any time.
Be aware that the metsvc backdoor doesn't have authentication, so anyone who can access the backdoor's port will be able to use it.
For our example, we will use a Windows XP operating system as the victim machine, whose IP address is 192.168.2.21; our attacking machine has the IP address of 192.168.2.22.
To enable the metsvc backdoor, you first need to exploit the system and get the meterpreter shell. After this, migrate the process using the meterpreter's migrate command to other processes such as explorer.exe (2), so you still have access to the system even though the victim closed your payload (1) ...
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