Basic post exploitation commands

Core meterpreter commands are those that are available on most exploited systems using a meterpreter payload and that provide the basic core functionalities for post exploitation. Let's get started with some of the most basic commands that will help you get started with post-exploitation.

The help menu

We can always refer to the help menu to list all the various commands that are usable on the target by issuing help or ? as shown in the following screenshot:

The help menu

Background command

While carrying out post exploitation, we may run into a situation where we need to perform additional tasks, such as testing for a different ...

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