In this chapter, we’ll dive deeper into Meterpreter and discuss how it can significantly improve your post-exploitation experience. Meterpreter is an implant that allows us to leverage Metasploit’s functionality to further compromise a target by covering our tracks, residing purely in memory, dumping hashes, escalating privileges, pivoting, and much more.
We’ll leverage normal attack methods within Metasploit to compromise a Windows machine. Once we’ve compromised the system, we’ll use our Meterpreter payload to perform additional attacks.
Compromising a Windows Virtual Machine
Before we dive into the specifics of Meterpreter, ...
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