Extended post-exploitation with Metasploit

We have already covered a few of the post-exploitation modules in the previous chapters. However, here we will focus on the features that we did not cover. Throughout the last chapter, we focused on exploiting the systems, but now we will focus only on the systems that are already exploited. So, let us get started with the most basic commands used in post-exploitation in the next section.

Basic post-exploitation commands

The core meterpreter commands are those that are available on most of the exploited systems using a meterpreter payload, and provide the necessary core functionalities for post-exploitation. Let us get started with some of the most basic commands that will help you with post-exploitation.

The help menu

We can always refer to the help menu's list of all the various commands that are usable on the target by issuing help or ?, as shown in the following screenshot:

Background command

While carrying out post-exploitation, we may run into a...