Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester

Scenario 2: You can't see my meterpreter

Throughout the previous chapters, we saw how we can take control of a variety of systems using Metasploit. However, the one important thing which we did not take into account is the presence of antivirus solutions on most operating systems. Let us create a backdoor executable of type windows/meterpreter/reverse_tcp, as follows:

We can now put this executable along with any exploit or office document, or we can bind it with any other executable and send it across to a target that is running windows and has an AVG AntiVirus solution running on his system. Let us see what happens when the target executes ...