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Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Daniel Teixeira, Abhinav Singh, Nipun Jaswal, Monika Agarwal
Book Image

Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Daniel Teixeira, Abhinav Singh, Nipun Jaswal, Monika Agarwal

Overview of this book

Metasploit is the world's leading penetration testing tool and helps security and IT professionals find, exploit, and validate vulnerabilities. Metasploit allows penetration testing automation, password auditing, web application scanning, social engineering, post exploitation, evidence collection, and reporting. Metasploit's integration with InsightVM (or Nexpose), Nessus, OpenVas, and other vulnerability scanners provides a validation solution that simplifies vulnerability prioritization and remediation reporting. Teams can collaborate in Metasploit and present their findings in consolidated reports. In this book, you will go through great recipes that will allow you to start using Metasploit effectively. With an ever increasing level of complexity, and covering everything from the fundamentals to more advanced features in Metasploit, this book is not just for beginners but also for professionals keen to master this awesome tool. You will begin by building your lab environment, setting up Metasploit, and learning how to perform intelligence gathering, threat modeling, vulnerability analysis, exploitation, and post exploitation—all inside Metasploit. You will learn how to create and customize payloads to evade anti-virus software and bypass an organization's defenses, exploit server vulnerabilities, attack client systems, compromise mobile phones, automate post exploitation, install backdoors, run keyloggers, highjack webcams, port public exploits to the framework, create your own modules, and much more.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Contributors
Packt Upsell
Preface
Index

Installing Metasploit on macOS


The latest macOS installer package is available at https://osx.metasploit.com/metasploitframework-latest.pkg.

How to do it...

Download and launch the installer to install Metasploit Framework with all of its dependencies. Once installed, you can launch msfconsole as /opt/metasploit- framework/bin/msfconsole:

The Metasploit Framework initial setup will help you set up a database and add Metasploit to your local PATH as shown:

$ /opt/metasploit-framework/bin/msfconsole 

 ** Welcome to Metasploit Framework Initial Setup **
    Please answer a few questions to get started.

Would you like to add msfconsole and other programs to your default PATH? yes
You may need to start a new terminal or log in again for this to take effect.

Would you like to use and setup a new database (recommended)? yes
Creating database at /Users/user/.msf4/db
Starting database at /Users/user/.msf4/db...success
Creating database users
Creating initial database schema

 ** Metasploit Framework Initial Setup Complete *