Discussing pivoting is never complete without talking about port forwarding. In this recipe, we will continue from our previous pivoting recipe and see how we can port forward the data and requests from the attacking machine to the internal network server via the target node. An important thing to note here is that we can use port forwarding to access various services of the internal server.
Port forwarding with Meterpreter
Getting ready
We will start with the same scenario, which we discussed in the previous recipe. We have compromised the Linux server, and we have added the route information to forward all the data packets sent on the network through the Meterpreter session. Let's take a look at the route table:
msf > route...
