Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook - Third Edition

How it works...

Meterpreter works like any command interpreter. It is designed to understand and respond to various parameter calls through commands. It resides in the context of an exploited/compromised process and creates a client/server communication system with the penetration tester's machine, as shown in the following diagram:

The preceding diagram demonstrates how Meterpreter functions in a nutshell. Once the communication channel is set up, we can send command calls to the Meterpreter server to get its response back to our machine. We will understand the communication between the pen-testing machine and the compromised target in greater ...