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The Complete Metasploit Guide

By : Sagar Rahalkar, Nipun Jaswal
Book Image

The Complete Metasploit Guide

By: Sagar Rahalkar, Nipun Jaswal

Overview of this book

Most businesses today are driven by their IT infrastructure, and the tiniest crack in this IT network can bring down the entire business. Metasploit is a pentesting network that can validate your system by performing elaborate penetration tests using the Metasploit Framework to secure your infrastructure. This Learning Path introduces you to the basic functionalities and applications of Metasploit. Throughout this book, you’ll learn different techniques for programming Metasploit modules to validate services such as databases, fingerprinting, and scanning. You’ll get to grips with post exploitation and write quick scripts to gather information from exploited systems. As you progress, you’ll delve into real-world scenarios where performing penetration tests are a challenge. With the help of these case studies, you’ll explore client-side attacks using Metasploit and a variety of scripts built on the Metasploit Framework. By the end of this Learning Path, you’ll have the skills required to identify system vulnerabilities by using thorough testing. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: Metasploit for Beginners by Sagar Rahalkar Mastering Metasploit - Third Edition by Nipun Jaswal
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
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Working with RailGun

RailGun sounds like a top-notch gun spitting out bullets faster than light; however, this is not the case. RailGun allows you to make calls to a Windows API without the need to compile your own DLL.

It supports numerous Windows DLL files and eases the way for us to perform system-level tasks on the victim machine. Let's see how we can perform various tasks using RailGun, and carry out some advanced post-exploitation with it.

Interactive Ruby shell basics

RailGun requires the irb shell to be loaded into Meterpreter. Let's look at how we can jump to the irb shell from Meterpreter:

We can see in the preceding screenshot that merely typing in irb from Meterpreter allows us to drop in the Ruby-interactive...