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Mastering Metasploit - Second Edition

By : Nipun Jaswal
Book Image

Mastering Metasploit - Second Edition

By: Nipun Jaswal

Overview of this book

Metasploit is a popular penetration testing framework that has one of the largest exploit databases around. This book will show you exactly how to prepare yourself against the attacks you will face every day by simulating real-world possibilities. 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 SCADA, databases, IoT, mobile, tablets, and many 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 (17 chapters)
Mastering Metasploit
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Developing custom modules


Let us dig deep into the process of writing a module. Metasploit has various modules such as payloads, encoders, exploits, NOP generators, and auxiliaries. In this section, we will cover the essentials of developing a module; then, we will look at how we can actually create our own custom modules.

In this section, we will discuss development for auxiliary and post-exploitation modules. Additionally, we will cover core exploit modules in the next chapter. Coming back to this chapter, let us discuss the essentials of module building in detail.

Building a module in a nutshell

Let us understand how things are arranged in the Metasploit framework, as well as all the components of Metasploit and what they do.

The architecture of the Metasploit framework

Metasploit comprises various components such as important libraries, modules, plugins, and tools. A diagrammatic view of the structure of Metasploit is as follows:

Let's see what these components are and how they work. It...