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Mastering Metasploit - Second Edition

By : Nipun Jaswal
Book Image

Mastering Metasploit - Second Edition

By: Nipun Jaswal

Overview of this book

Metasploit is a popular penetration testing framework that has one of the largest exploit databases around. This book will show you exactly how to prepare yourself against the attacks you will face every day by simulating real-world possibilities. We start by reminding you about the basic functionalities of Metasploit and its use in the most traditional ways. You’ll get to know about the basics of programming Metasploit modules as a refresher, and then dive into carrying out exploitation as well building and porting exploits of various kinds in Metasploit. In the next section, you’ll develop the ability to perform testing on various services such as SCADA, databases, IoT, mobile, tablets, and many more services. After this training, we jump into real-world sophisticated scenarios where performing penetration tests are a challenge. With real-life case studies, we take you on a journey through client-side attacks using Metasploit and various scripts built on the Metasploit framework. By the end of the book, you will be trained specifically on time-saving techniques using Metasploit.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering Metasploit
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Modeling threats


From the intelligence gathering phase, we can see that there are numerous services running on the target. Hosts information also reveals that the target operating system is Linux-based. Let us search for one of the vulnerabilities within Metasploit and try to find the matching exploit module:

We can see that we already have a module in Metasploit that targets the vulnerable service found. After exploring the details at http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48539/discuss and http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.in/2011/07/alert-vsftpd-download-backdoored.html, we can easily figure out that the vulnerability was intentionally put into the software and was carrying a backdoor that can be triggered remotely on the vulnerable system.