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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

Summary


In this chapter, we have seen several exploitation and penetration testing scenarios that we can perform using various services, such as databases, VOIP, and SCADA. Throughout this chapter, we learned about SCADA and its fundamentals. We saw how we can gain a variety of information about a database server and how to gain complete control over it. We also saw how we could test VOIP services by scanning the network for VOIP clients and spoofing VOIP calls as well.

In the next chapter, we will see how we can perform a complete penetration test using Metasploit and integration of various other popular scanning tools used in penetration testing in Metasploit. We will cover how to proceed systematically while carrying out penetration testing on a given subject. We will also look at how we can create reports and what should be included in or excluded from those reports.