Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester

Exploitation and post exploitation

Let us find the relevant exploit module via the search command in Metasploit in order to load the exploit for the HFS 2.3 server:

We can see we have the exploit/windows/http/rejetto_hfs_exec module matching the vulnerable target. Let's load this module using the use command and set the RHOST option to the IP address of the target and RPORT to 8080. We must also configure the payload as windows/meterpreter/reverse_tcp and set HOST to our IP address and LPORT to 4444 (or anything usable). Once all the options have been configured, let's see if everything is set properly by issuing the show options command as ...