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Understanding Meterpreter - Metasploit Tutorial
From the course: Penetration Testing with Metasploit
Understanding Meterpreter
- [Instructor] Hello, everyone, welcome back to this course on penetration testing with Metasploit. In this module, we will be discussing about Meterpreter, its features, and various ways of how Meterpreter can ease our life as a penetration tester, so let's get to it. Meterpreter is incidentally a short form for Metasploit Interpreter. Meterpreter is an exploitation module that provides modular exploitation and post-exploitation features for a variety of targets. It is particularly useful as a post-exploitation tool that supports Windows, Linux, Android, and other targets like AIX, et cetera. Like Metasploit as a whole, it is a modular tool which can be loaded and used as required by the penetration tester. It works on the client-server mode of communication, where the target system plays the role of the server, while the attacker system acts as a client. And this is always true irrespective of whatever scenario you face.…
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