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Post Exploitation with Meterpreter

In a penetration test, escalating your privileges and exfiltrating data are some of the most important tasks of the assessment. This course will teach you how to use the Meterpreter tool for post-exploitation tasks.

Intermediate
1h 41m
(12)

Created by Ricardo Reimao

Last Updated Oct 11, 2024

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Post Exploitation with Meterpreter

In a penetration test, escalating your privileges and exfiltrating data are some of the most important tasks of the assessment. This course will teach you how to use the Meterpreter tool for post-exploitation tasks.

Intermediate
1h 41m
(12)

Created by Ricardo Reimao

Last Updated Oct 11, 2024

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What you'll learn

During a penetration test engagement your job is to exploit the target systems, escalate privileges, create persistence, and exfiltrate data. In this course, Post Exploitation with Meterpreter, you’ll learn to perform all post-exploitation tasks with the Meterpreter tool, which is part of the Metasploit Framework. First, you’ll explore how to initiate a Meterpreter session and the basic Meterpreter shell commands. Next, you’ll discover how to escalate your privileges to gain admin-level access. Then, you’ll learn how to create persistence in the target system. Finally, you will learn how to use the Meterpreter tool to search and exfiltrate sensitive data. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of post exploitation with Meterpreter needed to perform a complete penetration test.

Post Exploitation with Meterpreter
Intermediate
1h 41m
(12)
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Ricardo Reimao - Pluralsight course - Post Exploitation with Meterpreter
Ricardo Reimao
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Ricardo is a Cybersecurity Consultant based in Toronto (Canada). He has 10+ years of IT experience, 6 of them in the IT Security field. His main interests are: SIEM solutions (IBM QRadar), Enterprise Security Risk, Penetration Testing, Security processes/procedures and Network Security.

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