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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

The loadpath command


While developing modules for Metasploit, we place the modules in their corresponding categories folder. However, once Metasploit is updated, all the modules are deleted and we have to replace them in their corresponding folders every time an update occurs. To overcome this constraint, we can create a directory outside Metasploit's primary directory and can load modules from there. The advantage of doing this lies in the fact that custom modules will not be lost at the time when Metasploit updates.

In the following example, we copy all the modules to the desktop in a directory called mods. However, we need to replicate the directory structure of Metasploit under mods directory, in order to use modules virtually from Metasploit's directory. This means that the loaded path will become a virtual branch of the Metasploit's directory structure. Let's have a look at loading custom paths into Metasploit, as shown in the following screenshot:

In the preceding screenshot, we placed...