Question About Nmap

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Bryan Richardson wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> While lurking at the local Barnes and Noble as my wife did some 
> shopping, I came across an article in Hacker Magazine on using 
> Metasploit to bypass corporate firewalls.  While reading, one 
> statement made by the author (don't remember his name) caught my eye.  
> He said that once a pivot has been created via Meterpreter through the 
> compromised machine, Nmap could be run against the network behind the 
> compromised machine.  Is this true?  Is a special Nmap included in 
> Metasploit that utilizes the Rex socket interface, or am I still not 
> quite understanding the requirements of a pivot?
>
> --
> Thanks!
> Bryan
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I haven't seen this possible or i haven't looked close/well enough. But 
you can also just upload and execute anything on the remote machine you 
know ;-) F.ex. NMAP (keep in mind the remote machine will need the lib 
pcap i think).