Part 8.1 - Meterpreter

In this video and the next, Dean reviews the Metasploit Meterpreter shell. This is an extremely useful tool for establishing a session with a remote target and poking around for vulnerabilities to exploit. Meterpreter leverages the stager in order to build a connection with the remote target. From there, you can run Metepreter-specific commands. You can put the shell in the background and even launch multiple shells on both the target as well as on multiple targets which you can return to later. The video concludes by mentioning the ability to load multiple modules and extensions. This ability makes Meterpreter an extremely flexible and interactive pentesting environment.