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Mastering Metasploit - Third Edition

By : Nipun Jaswal
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Mastering Metasploit - Third Edition

By: Nipun Jaswal

Overview of this book

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 databases, Cloud environment, IoT, mobile, tablets, and similar 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 (14 chapters)

The fundamentals of Armitage

Armitage is an attack manager tool that graphically automates Metasploit. Armitage is built in Java, and it was created by Raphael Mudge. It is a cross-platform tool, and it can run on both Linux and Windows OS.

Getting started

Throughout this chapter, we will use Armitage in Kali Linux. To start Armitage, perform the following steps:

  1. Open a Terminal and type in the armitage command, as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. Click on the Connect button in the pop-up box to set up a connection.
  2. For the armitage command to run, Metasploit's Remote Procedure Call (RPC) server should be running. As soon as we click on the Connect button in the previous pop-up, a new pop-up will occur and ask if...