Session interaction

After successful exploitation, a session will be opened and you'll get a notification on the Project tab bar:

  1. To view the opened session, you need to click the Sessions tab in the Project tab bar:

  1. To interact with any open session, just click on the Session [ID], as shown in the preceding screenshot. The features that are supported by the MSF web interface for session interaction can be seen in the following screenshot:

The following are the options you can use for session interaction:

You can interact with the desktop running on the target system via this port:


Note: The user will be notified of incoming VNC connections.

You can execute the commands in the given input box. The result will be displayed like so:

This window will only support Meterpreter commands. The System commands can be run using the shell command:

You can use this option if you want to connect to the internal network for further exploitation:

First, you need to start a handler for the specific transport; otherwise, the process will fail.

Next, let's look at the post-exploitation modules that are available in the web interface.