How to do it...

Once we have meterpreter on the system, Metasploit has an inbuilt module to try three different methods to get admin access. First, we will see the infamous getsystem of Metasploit. To view the help, we type this:

getsystem –h

To try and get admin, we type the following command:

getsystem

We can see we are now NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. Sometimes, this technique may not work, so we try another way to get the system on the machine. We will look at some ways to reconfigure Windows services. 

We will use sc ( known as service configuration ...

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