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Metasploit for Beginners
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Metasploit for Beginners

by Sagar Rahalkar
July 2017
Beginner
190 pages
4h 4m
English
Packt Publishing
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Post

The post modules contain various scripts and utilities that help us to further infiltrate our target system after a successful exploitation. Once we successfully exploit a vulnerability and get into our target system, post-exploitation modules may help us in the following ways:

  • Escalate user privileges
  • Dump OS credentials
  • Steal cookies and saved passwords
  • Get key logs from the target system
  • Execute PowerShell scripts
  • Make our access persistent

The following table shows the various categories of "post" modules available in the Metasploit Framework:

Linux Windows OS X Cisco
Solaris Firefox Aix Android
Multi Zip Powershell

The Metasploit Framework has more than 250 such post-exploitation utilities and scripts. We'll be using ...

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