Just about every time you see a serious network intrusion where the attackers obtain access to internal networks, the attackers used “hop points” to conceal their identity and evade detection. … Setting up and using hop points has been a chore for penetration testers as well. Normally setting up a hop requires owning the server to open and listen on arbitrary ports and forward data. But today, using a new payload and session type I contributed to the metasploit framework, you can use any common PHP host as a hop for meterpreter. This is a big deal since it’s the first time metasploit has natively supported receiving a connect-back shell that goes somewhere other than directly to the Metasploit controller. … Check it out in the video below: