When we try to execute Meterpreter on a Windows target system, we may never get Meterpreter access. This is common in situations where an administrator has blocked a particular set of ports on the system. In this example, let's try circumventing such cases with a smart Metasploit payload. Let's quickly set up a scenario as follows:
We can see that we have set up a new firewall rule and specified port numbers 4444-6666. Proceeding to the next step, we will choose to block these outbound ports, as shown in the following screenshot:
Let's check the firewall status and our rule:
We can see that the rule is set up and our firewall is enabled on both home and public networks. Consider that we have Disk Pulse Enterprise software running at the target. We already saw in the previous chapters that we can exploit this software....
