Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook - Third Edition

How to do it...

Let's start with an analysis of the run method of the module to understand how it works:

def run  raise "Powershell not available" if ! have_powershell?    script = make_subs(read_script(datastore['SCRIPT']), process_subs(datastore['SUBSTITUTIONS']))  print_status psh_exec(script)  print_good 'Finished!'end

1. First, it verifies that the requirements are met, in this case whether PowerShell is available; if not it raises an exception:

raise "Powershell not available" if ! have_powershell?

2. Next, it reads and preprocesses the PowerShell script supplied and saves the result in a variable named script:

script = make_subs(read_script(datastore['SCRIPT']), process_subs(datastore['SUBSTITUTIONS']))

3. Finally, it calls the psh_exec method ...