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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we saw how we could efficiently perform a penetration test on a network using OpenVAS built-in connectors and various Metasploit extensions, and how a proper report of the test can be generated. We have many other connectors at our disposal, such as ones for Nessus, SQLMAP, and so on, and we will pursue them in the upcoming chapters.

In the next chapter, we will see how we can conduct client-side attacks with Metasploit, and gain access to impenetrable targets with social engineering and payload delivery.