Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester

API calls and mixins

We just saw how we could perform advanced tasks with meterpreter. This indeed makes the life of a penetration tester easier.

Now, let's dig deep into the working of meterpreter and uncover the basic building process of meterpreter's modules and scripts. This is because sometimes it might happen that meterpreter alone is not good enough to perform all the required tasks. In that case, we need to build our custom meterpreter modules and can perform or automate various tasks required at the time of exploitation.

Let's first understand the basics of meterpreter scripting. The base for coding with meterpreter is the Application Programming Interface (API) calls and mixins. These are required to perform specific tasks using ...