Upgrade basic shell access to meterpreter/empire access
Attack tree
1 Basic shell access
2 Go to /tmp/ directory on the target machine
3 curl or wget file (in this case empire or meterpreter shell) from apache2 server on Kali machine to the target machine
4 Start matching listener on Kali
5 Execute the downloaded shell on the target machine
6 Post exploitation
Notes
For Windows: Upgrading shells to Meterpreter
Cheatsheets
Spawning a TTY Shell (when using
nc
)