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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

Attacking Android with Metasploit


The Android platform can be attacked either by creating a simple APK file or by injecting the payload into the existing APK. We will cover the first one. Let's get started by generating an APK file with msfvenom as follows:

On generating the APK file, all we need to do is to either convince the victim (perform social engineering) to install the APK or physically gain access to the phone. Let's see what happens on the phone as soon as a victim downloads the malicious APK:

Once the download is complete, the user installs the file as follows:

Most people never notice what permissions an app asks for. So, an attacker gains complete access to the phone and steals personal data. The preceding screenshot lists the required permissions an application needs in order to operate correctly. Once the install happens successfully, the attacker gains complete access to the target phone:

Whooaaa! We got meterpreter access easily. Post exploitation is widely covered in the next...