🔁 Sessions

🎯 Purpose:

• Enable control of multiple modules simultaneously.

• Allow switching, backgrounding, and managing active communication with targets.

• Each session provides a dedicated control interface.

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🧪 Creating/Backgrounding a Session

Once an exploit is successful:

• Background it:

  • Keyboard: CTRL + Z

  • Or run:

    background

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📋 List Active Sessions

sessions

Example:

Id  Name  Type                     Information                 Connection
--  ----  ----                     -----------                 ----------
1         meterpreter x86/windows  NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM @ MS01  10.10.10.129:443 -> 10.10.10.205:50501

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🖥️ Interact with a Session

sessions -i 1

Result:

[*] Starting interaction with 1...
meterpreter >

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📦 Post-Exploitation Modules

• You can run a post-exploitation module against an active session by selecting a SESSION option inside the module.

• Example categories:

  • post/windows/gather/

  • post/multi/recon/

  • post/multi/manage/

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⚙️ Jobs

💡 What are Jobs?

• Background tasks started with modules like exploit -j.

• Useful for persistence, multi-tasking, or freeing up ports.

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📌 View Running Jobs

jobs -l

Example:

Id  Name                    Payload                    Payload opts
--  ----                    -------                    ------------
0   Exploit: multi/handler  generic/shell_reverse_tcp  tcp://10.10.14.34:4444

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❌ Kill a Job

jobs -k 0

Or:

jobs -K  # Kill all

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🧰 Jobs Help Menu

jobs -h

Useful options:

• -l : List all jobs

• -k : Kill by ID

• -K : Kill all jobs

• -i : Detailed job info

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🚀 Running Exploits as Jobs

exploit -j

Example output:

[*] Exploit running as background job 0.
[*] Exploit completed, but no session was created.
[*] Started reverse TCP handler on 10.10.14.34:4444

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📖 Exploit Help Menu

exploit -h

Options:

• -j: Run as job

• -J: Force foreground run

• -f: Force run

• -e: Set encoder

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