Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester

Essentials of meterpreter scripting

As far as we have seen, we have used meterpreter in situations where we needed to perform some additional tasks on the system. However, now we will look at some of the advanced situations that may arise during a penetration test, where the scripts already present in meterpreter seem to be of no help to us. Most likely, in this kind of situation, we will want to add our custom functionalities to meterpreter and perform the required tasks. However, before we proceed to add custom scripts in meterpreter, let's perform some of the advanced features of meterpreter first and understand its power.