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Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester

By : Sagar Rahalkar, Nipun Jaswal
Book Image

Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester

By: Sagar Rahalkar, 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. This learning path will begin by introducing you to Metasploit and its functionalities. You will learn how to set up and configure Metasploit on various platforms to create a virtual test environment. You will also get your hands on various tools and components and get hands-on experience with carrying out client-side attacks. In the next part of this learning path, 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. The final instalment of your learning journey will be covered through a bootcamp approach. You will be able to bring together the learning together and speed up and integrate Metasploit with leading industry tools for penetration testing. You’ll finish by working on challenges based on user’s preparation and work towards solving the challenge. The course provides you with highly practical content explaining Metasploit from the following Packt books: 1. Metasploit for Beginners 2. Mastering Metasploit, Second Edition 3. Metasploit Bootcamp
Table of Contents (35 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Module 1
31
Bibliography

Penetration testing an unknown network


Recalling the basics of Metasploit, we are all set to perform our first penetration test with Metasploit. We will test an IP address here and try to find relevant information about the target IP and will try to break deeper into the network as much as we can. We will follow all the required phases of a penetration test here, which we discussed in the earlier part of this chapter.

Assumptions

Considering a black box penetration test on an unknown network, we can assume that we are done with the preinteractions phase. We are going to test a single IP address in the scope of the test, with zero knowledge of the technologies running on the target. We are performing the test with Kali Linux, a popular security-based Linux distribution, which comes with tons of preinstalled security tools.

Note

For the sake for learning, we are using two instances of Metasploitable 2 and a single instance of Windows Server 2012 in the demo.

Gathering intelligence

As discussed earlier...