Railgun in Metasploit

In this recipe, we learn more about Railgun. Railgun is a meterpreter-only Windows exploitation feature. It allows direct communication to the Windows API.

Railgun allows us to perform a lot of tasks that Metasploit cannot. Using this, we can use the Windows API calls to perform all of the operations we need to for even better post exploitation.

How to do it...

Let's perform the following steps:

1. Jump into Railgun from meterpreter by typing the following command:

irb 

The output of the preceding command is shown in the following screenshot:

2. To access Railgun, use the following command:

session.railgun

The output of the preceding command is shown in the following screenshot:

We see a lot of data...