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What is a payload in Metasploit?
What you do to the target after it is exploited.
An obfuscation technique for an exploit.
The carrier for a device.
The code delivered after target is exploited.
A payload is a piece of code to be executed through said exploit. Have a look at the Metasploit Framework. It is simply a collection of exploits and payloads. Each exploit can be attached with various payloads like reverse or bind shells, the meterpreter shell etc. [Argument: The answer should be "What you do to the target after it is exploited". The exploit is code, the payload is code. "The code for an exploit" is the exploit itself, they are two separate entities and the payload follows the exploit.]
EDIT : EXPLOIT : before payload, used for exploit a vulnerability. PAYLOAD : used after exploit, a payload open a port on the victim machine, give a meterpreter etc ... ANSWER IS : What you do to the target after it is exploited.
EDIT: An payload is a script, code, or module that is used to execute an attack against a vulnerability. The payload is literally the exploit used against a TOE. The IT or cyber use of the term payload comes from the military definition of a payload like a bomb or missile that is used against a physical target. Hackers over time began to call malware or scripts "payloads" that they would use against their targets in the same way that military pilots used missiles against their physical targets. A payload is THE exploit that is used like a missile against a cyber target. A payload is not what happens after a target has been exploited.
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