Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

An introduction to post exploitation

Now that we've learned how to gain access to our target, let's look at what we can do with that target. In this section, we will learn a number of things that can be done after we have gained access to a computer. We will look at what to do with a computer regardless of how we gain access to it—whether we use a server-side exploit, social engineering, a backdoor, a problem with a certain application, or some other method.

In the previous chapters, we always stopped when we got to a reverse Meterpreter session from our target. In this chapter, we are going to start with a Meterpreter session. We're not going to discuss how we gained access, but what we can do after gaining access. We will be discussing ...