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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)

Exploiting browsers for fun and profit

Web browsers are used primarily for surfing the web; however, an outdated web browser can lead to the entire system being compromised. Clients may never use the preinstalled web browsers and instead choose one based on their preference; however, the default preinstalled web browser can still lead to various attacks on the system. Exploiting a browser by finding vulnerabilities in the browser components is known as browser-based exploitation.

For more information on Firefox vulnerabilities, refer to https://www.cvedetails.com/product/3264/Mozilla-Firefox.html?vendor_id=452.

Refer to Internet Explorer vulnerabilities at https://www.cvedetails.com/product/9900/Microsoft-Internet-Explorer.html?vendor_id=26.

The browser autopwn attack

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