Mastering Metasploit - Third Edition

Summary and exercises

Throughout this chapter, we covered post-exploitation in detail. We looked at post-exploitation scenarios, from basic to advanced. We also looked at privileged escalation in a Windows environment, and a couple of other advanced techniques.

Following are the exercises you should try on your own:

• Develop your own post-exploitation modules for the features which are not already present in Metasploit
• Develop automation scripts for gaining access, maintaining access, and clearing tracks
• Try contributing to Metasploit with at least one post-exploitation module for Linux based operating systems

In the next chapter, we will make use of most of the post-exploitation tricks we covered in this chapter to circumvent and evade ...