Post-exploitation modules

After the evolution of the Metasploit Framework, Meterpreter scripts, which serve the purpose of automating post-exploitation tasks, were deprecated and replaced by post-exploitation modules, which provided a more stable and flexible way to automate post-exploitation tasks.

Getting ready

Because we will be focusing on post-exploitation, every recipe in this chapter will start within a remote Meterperter session.

To ease the task of getting a remote session, you can use the makerc command within the msfconsole to create a resource file that will automate the exploitation of the target machine.

Take, for example, the following resource file:

root@kali:~# cat psexec.rc 
use exploit...