Book Image

Mastering Metasploit - Second Edition

By : Nipun Jaswal
Book Image

Mastering Metasploit - Second Edition

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.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering Metasploit
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Importing TCP server/ browser-based exploits into Metasploit


In the following section, we will see how we can import browser based or TCP server based exploits in Metasploit.

During an application test or a penetration test, we might encounter software that may fail to parse data from a request/response and end up crashing. Let us see an example of an application that has vulnerability when parsing data:

The application used in this example is BSplayer 2.68. We can see we have a Python exploit listening on port 81. The vulnerability lies in parsing the remote server's response; when a user tries to play a video from a URL. Let us see what happens when we try to stream content from our listener on port 81:

We can see the calculator application popping up, which denotes the successful working of the exploit.

Note

Download the Python exploit for BSplayer 2.68 from https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36477/

Let us see the exploit code and gather essential information from it in order to build...