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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

Using AutoRunScript in Metasploit


Metasploit offers another great feature of using AutoRunScript. The AutoRunScript option can be populated by issuing the show advanced command. The AutoRunScript automates post exploitation and executes once the access to the target is gained. We can either set the AutoRunScript option manually by issuing set AutoRunScript [script-name] or in the resource script itself, which automates exploitation and post exploitation together. The AutoRunScript can also run more than one post exploitation script by making the use of the multi_script and multi_console_command modules as well. Let's take an example in which we have two scripts, one for automating the exploitation and the other for automating the post exploitation, as shown in the following screenshot:

This a small post exploitation script that automates checkvm (a module to check if the target is running on virtual environment) and migrate (a module that helps migrating from the exploited process to safer...