Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook - Third Edition

How it works...

To start port forwarding with a remote host, we can add a forwarding rule first. Consider the following command line:

meterpreter> portfwd -a -L 127.0.0.1 -l 444 -h 69.54.34.38 -p 3389

Notice the different command parameters. With the -a parameter, we can add a new port forwarding rule. The-L parameter defines the IP address to bind a forwarded socket to. As we're running these parameters on host A, and want to continue our work from the same host, we set the IP address to 127.0.0.1:

• -l: Is the port number which will be opened on host A for accepting incoming connections
• -h: Defines the IP address of host C, or any other host within the internal network
• -p: Is the port you want to connect to on host C

This was a simple ...