Post-exploitation using Meterpreter

During the course of this section, you will leverage the power of Meterpreter to help automate a lot of post-exploitation actions on a compromised host. Meterpreter is a component within Metasploit that allows a penetration tester to interact with a reverse shell between the victim/compromised machine and the attacker machine via Metasploit. To put it simply, Meterpreter is a process that runs on the memory of the compromised system and does not write any data on the compromised system's disk, therefore reducing the risk of detection and attribution. Penetration testers will be able to execute various actions on their Meterpreter console, which are then remotely executed on the compromised host machine.

Just to quickly recap, during Chapter 2, Building a Penetration Testing Lab, you assembled and built your very own penetration testing lab environment that contains various internal networks and an internet connection, as shown in the following...