Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook - Third Edition

How to do it...

1. We will start with the simple pwd command, which lists our present working directory on the target machine. Similarly, we can use the cd command to change our working directory to our preferred location:

meterpreter > pwdC:\Windows\system32meterpreter > cd \meterpreter > pwdC:\

As you can see, we first listed our working directory using the pwd command and then changed our working directory to C: by using the cd command. We can also use the ls command to list the available files in the current directory.

2. Now that we can work with directories, our next task will be to search for files on the drive. It will be very tedious to browse every directory and subdirectory to look for files. We can use the search command to quickly ...