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Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing

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Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing

Overview of this book

It has always been difficult to gain hands-on experience and a comprehensive understanding of advanced penetration testing techniques and vulnerability assessment and management. This book will be your one-stop solution to compromising complex network devices and modern operating systems. This book provides you with advanced penetration testing techniques that will help you exploit databases, web and application servers, switches or routers, Docker, VLAN, VoIP, and VPN. With this book, you will explore exploitation abilities such as offensive PowerShell tools and techniques, CI servers, database exploitation, Active Directory delegation, kernel exploits, cron jobs, VLAN hopping, and Docker breakouts. Moving on, this book will not only walk you through managing vulnerabilities, but will also teach you how to ensure endpoint protection. Toward the end of this book, you will also discover post-exploitation tips, tools, and methodologies to help your organization build an intelligent security system. By the end of this book, you will have mastered the skills and methodologies needed to breach infrastructures and provide complete endpoint protection for your system.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Dissecting Metasploit Framework

Metasploit Framework is the most well-known open source exploitation tool. It was developed at first in Perl by HD Moore, but later, it was shifted into Ruby. This framework is loaded with many useful features for hackers and penetration testers. To install Metasploit Framework, visit https://www.rapid7.com/products/metasploit/download/ and perform the following steps:

  1. Choose your plan, register, and select your operating system. In this demonstration, I am using the Windows 64-bit trial version:
  1. You will receive an email with the trial activation key:
  1. Now install it on your machine:
  1. Voila! You can start your exploitation journey:

Metasploit architecture

Metasploit architecture is...