Basic Windows post-exploitation commands
The core Meterpreter commands provide the essential core post-exploitation features that are available on most of the exploited systems through a Meterpreter. Let's get started with some of the most basic commands that aid post-exploitation.
The help menu
We can always refer to the help menu in order to list all the various commands that can be used on the target by issuing help or ?. The help command will show us the core, stdapi, and priv commands by default, as shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 8.1 – The Meterpreter help menu
In the previous chapters, we saw that when we load a plugin using the load command, its options are added automatically to the help menu. You can also view help menus for each of the commands by typing -h after the command, as shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 8.2: Viewing a command's help menu using the -h switch
Since we have already...
