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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

Scenario 1: Mirror environment


Consider yourself a penetration tester who is tasked to carry out a black box penetration test against a single IP in an on-site project. Your job is to make sure that no vulnerabilities are present in the server and on the application running on it.

Understanding the environment

Since we know we are going to perform on an on-site environment, we can summarize the test as shown in the following table:

Number of IPs under scope

1

Test policy

Web applications and server

IP address

192.168.10.110

Summary of tests to be performed

Port Scanning

Test for Web application vulnerabilities

Test for server vulnerabilities

Compromising any other network connected to the target host

Objectives

Gain user level access to the server

Escalate privileges to the highest possible level

Gain access to the credentials for web and server applications

Test type

Black box test

Additionally, let us also keep a diagrammatic view of the entire test to make things easier for us to remember and understand...