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Metasploit
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Metasploit

by David Kennedy, Jim O'Gorman, Devon Kearns, Mati Aharoni
July 2011
Intermediate to advanced
328 pages
9h 1m
English
No Starch Press
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Leveraging Post Exploitation Modules

As mentioned earlier, the Meterpreter scripts are slowly being converted to post exploitation modules. The move to post exploitation modules will finally give a fully consistent standard and format to the Metasploit modules. As you read through later chapters, you’ll see the overall structure of auxiliary modules and exploits. In the past, Meterpreter scripts used their own format, which was very different from the way other modules behaved.

One added benefit of moving the modules to the same format is the ability to perform the same attack on all sessions available. Suppose, for example, that you have 10 open Meterpreter shells. In the traditional fashion, you would need to run hashdump on each or write custom ...

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