The Complete Metasploit Guide

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 deeper into the working of Meterpreter and uncover the underlying building process of Meterpreter modules and scripts. Sometimes, it might happen that we may run out of Meterpreter's offerings and desire customized functionality to perform all the required tasks. In that case, we need to build our own custom Meterpreter modules that can implement or automate various tasks which are needed 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 ...