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Mastering Metasploit

Mastering Metasploit - Second Edition

By : Nipun Jaswal
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Mastering Metasploit

Mastering Metasploit

3.2 (5)
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.
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Summary

Throughout this chapter, we have introduced the phases involved in penetration testing. We have also seen how we can set up Metasploit and conduct a black box test on the network. We recalled the basic functionalities of Metasploit as well. We saw how we could perform a penetration test on two different Linux boxes and Windows Server 2012. We also looked at the benefits of using databases in Metasploit.

After completing this chapter, we are equipped with the following:

  • Knowledge of the phases of a penetration test
  • The benefits of using databases in Metasploit
  • The basics of the Metasploit framework
  • Knowledge of the workings of exploits and auxiliary modules
  • Knowledge of the approach to penetration testing with Metasploit

The primary goal of this chapter was to inform you about penetration test phases and Metasploit. This chapter focused entirely on preparing ourselves for the next chapters.

In the next chapter, we will cover a technique that is a little more difficult, that is, scripting the components of Metasploit. We will dive into the coding part of Metasploit and write our custom functionalities to the Metasploit framework.

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