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Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Daniel Teixeira, Abhinav Singh, Nipun Jaswal, Monika Agarwal
Book Image

Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Daniel Teixeira, Abhinav Singh, Nipun Jaswal, Monika Agarwal

Overview of this book

Metasploit is the world's leading penetration testing tool and helps security and IT professionals find, exploit, and validate vulnerabilities. Metasploit allows penetration testing automation, password auditing, web application scanning, social engineering, post exploitation, evidence collection, and reporting. Metasploit's integration with InsightVM (or Nexpose), Nessus, OpenVas, and other vulnerability scanners provides a validation solution that simplifies vulnerability prioritization and remediation reporting. Teams can collaborate in Metasploit and present their findings in consolidated reports. In this book, you will go through great recipes that will allow you to start using Metasploit effectively. With an ever increasing level of complexity, and covering everything from the fundamentals to more advanced features in Metasploit, this book is not just for beginners but also for professionals keen to master this awesome tool. You will begin by building your lab environment, setting up Metasploit, and learning how to perform intelligence gathering, threat modeling, vulnerability analysis, exploitation, and post exploitation—all inside Metasploit. You will learn how to create and customize payloads to evade anti-virus software and bypass an organization's defenses, exploit server vulnerabilities, attack client systems, compromise mobile phones, automate post exploitation, install backdoors, run keyloggers, highjack webcams, port public exploits to the framework, create your own modules, and much more.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Contributors
Packt Upsell
Preface
Index

Common exploit mixins


Mixins are comprehensive mechanisms in the Ruby language that provide functionality for a module. Mixins provide a way to include multiple inheritances in a single inheritance language, for example, Ruby. Using mixins in exploit modules can help in calling different functions that the exploits require. So, we will learn about some important Metasploit exploit mixins.

How to do it...

Let's take a quick look at some of the common exploit mixins. Then, we will look at their implementation in an existing exploit module:

  • Exploit::Remote::TCP: This mixin provides TCP functionality to the exploit module. It can be used to set up a TCP connection. The connect() and disconnect() functions are responsible for setting up and terminating connections, respectively. This mixin requires different parameters, such as RHOST, RPORT, and SSL.
  • Exploit::Remote::UDP: This mixin is used for UDP functionality in the exploit module. UDP is generally treated as a faster mode of connectivity over...