Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook

Meterpreter API and mixins

In the past one and a half chapters, we have learned extensively about using meterpreter as a potential post exploitation tool. You might have realized the important role of meterpreter to make our penetration task easier and faster. Now, from this recipe, we will move ahead and discuss some advanced concepts related to meterpreter. We will dive deeper into the core of Metasploit to understand how meterpreter scripts function and how we can build our own scripts.

From a penetration tester's point of view it is very essential to know how to implement our own scripting techniques so as to fulfill the needs of the scenario. There can be situations when you have to perform tasks where the meterpreter may not be enough to ...