Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook - Third Edition

How it works...

Now, let's use a simple post-exploitation module and see how it works.

1. We will start by using the Windows Gather Virtual Environment Detection post-exploitation gather module to determine whether the target is running inside a virtual environment, and, if so, detect which type of hypervisor it is running on:

msf exploit(psexec) > use post/windows/gather/checkvmmsf post(checkvm) > show options Module options (post/windows/gather/checkvm):   Name     Current Setting  Required  Description   ----     ---------------  --------  -----------   SESSION                   yes       The session to run this module on.

2. Before running a module, we should always check the available options, not only to verify the required options but to also customize the options to our target ...