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Mastering Metasploit - Third Edition

By : Nipun Jaswal
Book Image

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)

Additional post-exploitation modules

Metasploit offers 250 plus post-exploitation modules; however, we will only cover a few interesting ones, and will leave the rest for you to cover as an exercise.

Gathering wireless SSIDs with Metasploit

Wireless networks around the target system can be discovered efficiently using the wlan_bss_list module. The module allows us to fingerprint the location and other necessary information about the Wi-Fi networks around the target, as shown in the following screenshot:

Gathering Wi-Fi passwords with Metasploit

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