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Metasploit for Beginners

By : Sagar Rahalkar
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Metasploit for Beginners

By: Sagar Rahalkar

Overview of this book

This book will begin by introducing you to Metasploit and its functionality. Next, you will learn how to set up and configure Metasploit on various platforms to create a virtual test environment. You will also get your hands on various tools and components used by Metasploit. Further on in the book, you will learn how to find weaknesses in the target system and hunt for vulnerabilities using Metasploit and its supporting tools. Next, you'll get hands-on experience carrying out client-side attacks. Moving on, you'll learn about web application security scanning and bypassing anti-virus and clearing traces on the target system post compromise. This book will also keep you updated with the latest security techniques and methods that can be directly applied to scan, test, hack, and secure networks and systems with Metasploit. By the end of this book, you'll get the hang of bypassing different defenses, after which you'll learn how hackers use the network to gain access into different systems.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Exercises

You can try the following exercises:

  • Find out and try to use any auxiliary module that can be used for vulnerability detection
  • Try to explore various features of meterpreter other than those discussed in this chapter
  • Try to find out if there is any alternative to db_autopwn