Hello aspiring ethical hackers. In our previous blogpost, you learnt everything about the power of meterpreter. However, in real-world, you are not so lucky to get a meterpreter session every time. Most of the times, you will get a normal command shell. Don’t worry. you can upgrade command shell to meterpreter. The good thing is we can do it from Metasploit only.
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In this blogpost, we will be showing you how to do this. First thing we need to do after getting a normal command shell is to background the current command shell by hitting CTRL+Z. Be careful not to press “CTRL+C”. That will completely abort the session altogether. If it happened by mistake ( like it happened to me below), select “no” when it asks whether to abort a session. Then hit CTRL+Z and select Yes. Your session has been sent to background. Remember the session number. In our case, this is 3.B
Next, load the shell_to_meterpreter module as shown below. We need only one option for this module to work. The session id of the session we just sent to background and I told you to remember.
Specify the session id and run the exploit as shown below. We will get the meterpreter session.
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Type command “sessions -l” to see all our sessions as shown below.
We can load the meterpreter session as shown below.
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