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Mastering Metasploit

You're reading from   Mastering Metasploit Take your penetration testing and IT security skills to a whole new level with the secrets of Metasploit

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788990615
Length 492 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Nipun Jaswal Nipun Jaswal
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Approaching a Penetration Test Using Metasploit 2. Reinventing Metasploit FREE CHAPTER 3. The Exploit Formulation Process 4. Porting Exploits 5. Testing Services with Metasploit 6. Virtual Test Grounds and Staging 7. Client-Side Exploitation 8. Metasploit Extended 9. Evasion with Metasploit 10. Metasploit for Secret Agents 11. Visualizing with Armitage 12. Tips and Tricks 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Advanced post-exploitation with Metasploit

In this section, we will use the information gathered from primary commands to achieve further success and access the levels of the target.

Obtaining system privileges

If the application we broke into is running with administrator privileges, it is effortless to gain system-level privileges by issuing the getsystem command, as shown in the following screenshot:

The system-level privileges provide the highest level of rights, with the ability to perform almost anything on to the target system.

The getsystem module is not as reliable on the newer version of Windows. It is advisable to try local privilege escalation methods and modules to elevate.
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