The Complete Metasploit Guide

Understanding RailGun and its scripting

RailGun gives us immense power to perform tasks that Metasploit may not be able to carry out at times. Using RailGun, we can raise exception calls to any DLL file from the breached system.

Now, let's see how we can call a function using basic API calls with RailGun, and understand how it works:

client.railgun.DLLname.function(parameters) 

This is the basic structure of an API call in RailGun. The client.railgun keyword defines the need of RailGun functionality for the client. The DLLname keyword specifies the name of the DLL file to which we will be making a call. The function (parameters) keyword in the syntax specifies the actual API function that is to be provoked with required parameters from the ...