Book Image

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

Summary


In this chapter, we covered coding for Metasploit. We worked on modules, post-exploitation scripts, meterpreter, RailGun, and Ruby programming too. Throughout this chapter, we saw how we can add our custom functions to the Metasploit framework and make the already powerful framework much more powerful. We began with familiarizing ourselves with the basics of Ruby. We learned about writing auxiliary modules, post-exploitation scripts, and meterpreter extensions. We saw how we could make use of RailGun to add custom functions such as adding a DLL file and a custom function to the target's DLL files.

In the next chapter, we will look at the development in context to exploit the modules in Metasploit. This is where we will begin to write custom exploits, fuzz various parameters for exploitation, exploit software and write advanced exploits for software and the Web.