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Learning Metasploit Exploitation and Development

By : Aditya Balapure
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Learning Metasploit Exploitation and Development

By: Aditya Balapure

Overview of this book

<p>Metasploit is an open source exploit framework that provides you with heaps of exploits, as well as tools to assist you in creating your own exploits. This includes the ability to generate a large range of shellcodes for different purposes and platforms that can be customized to attack your target. The recent improvements in network security mechanisms have given rise to new trends and techniques of compromising a network. This book deals with these recent trends and attack tips to compromise the weakest to the strongest of networks. Metasploit Exploitation and Development describes actual penetration testing skills and ways to penetrate and assess different types of networks.<br /><br />Metasploit Exploitation and Development is a perfect fit for hackers who want to develop some real exploitation skills. This book has been designed with a practical approach which emphasizes hands-on rather than theoretical reading. It covers all the new exploits for new operating systems and tips from the experience of real hackers. This is a best buy book for learning the art of exploitation and skills of a penetration tester.<br /><br />Metasploit Exploitation and Development is a guide to real network hacking with the best tricks to master the art of exploitation.</p> <p><br />This book has been designed in well-defined stages so the reader learns more effectively. From the actual setup to vulnerability assessment, this book provides an individual with in-depth knowledge of an expert penetration tester. The book deals with vulnerability assessment exercises with some of the industrially-used tools and report-making tips. It covers topics such as client exploitation, backdoors, post exploitation, and also exploitation development with Metasploit.<br />This book has been developed with a practical hands-on approach so that readers can effectively try and test what they actually read.</p> <p><br />Metasploit Exploitation and Development covers the experience of real network hacking with some of the latest operating systems. The readers will go through a journey in which they will learn from basic to advanced levels of the art of exploitation.</p> <p><br />This book covers real hacking and exploitation of the current vulnerabilities in some of the latest operating systems.</p>
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Learning Metasploit Exploitation and Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Installing BackTrack5 R2 on Oracle VM Virtual Box


Now we are going to install BackTrack 5 R2 on Virtual Box. Perform the following steps:

  1. First, launch your Oracle VM Virtual Box.

  2. A new window will appear with the message Welcome to the New Virtual Machine Wizard; click on Next.

  3. We follow the same process which we followed during our Windows XP virtual machine creation for the BackTrack virtual machine setup. Our BackTrack machine will be set up and the summary displayed as shown in the following screenshot. Click on Create:

  4. Now Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager will open and will show the new virtual machine in the right pane. Select that virtual machine and click on Start to start the installation process of BackTrack 5.

  5. A new window will appear with the message Welcome to the First Run Wizard!; click on Next to begin.

  6. A new window will appear with options for selecting source installation media. Select the ISO image of BackTrack 5 or the DVD Rom drive to install from CD/DVD, and then click on Next.

  7. A new Summary window will open, and it will show the type of media that was selected for installation, the media source, and the type of device; now click on Start.

  8. We will see a black boot screen; just press Enter.

  9. The BackTrack boot screen with a command-line interface will appear, showing the prompt: root@bt:~#; type startx as the value of this command and press Enter.

  10. Now the BackTrack GUI interface will start and we will see an icon named Install BackTrack. We will have to click on that icon to continue the installation process.

  11. After that, the installation wizard will start. Select the language and click on Forward.

  12. The installation wizard will automatically set the time from the network time server.

  13. Select the Time Zone and Region, and click on Forward.

  14. The next wizard will ask for the Keyboard layout. Select the appropriate layout according to your language and click on Forward.

  15. The disk partition wizard will appear. Just use the default settings and click on Forward.

  16. Now click on Install.

  17. The setup will start copying files. It will take approximately 40 minutes to complete the installation.

  18. After finishing the installation, just click on Restart, and now the BackTrack installation is ready for use.