Mastering Metasploit - Fourth Edition

Chapter 8: Metasploit Extended

This chapter will cover the extended usage and hardcore post-exploitation features of Metasploit. Throughout this chapter, we will focus on out-of-the-box approaches toward post-exploitation, as well as tedious tasks such as privilege escalation, using transports, finding juicy information, and much more.

During this chapter, we will cover and understand the following key aspects:

• Basic Windows post-exploitation commands
• Differences between Windows and Linux post-exploitation commands
• Advanced Windows post-exploitation modules
• Advanced multi-OS extended features of Metasploit
• Privilege escalation with Metasploit on Windows 10 and Linux

We covered many post-exploitation modules and scripts in the previous chapters. ...