In the preceding chapter, you learned how to effectively use Armitage for easily performing some of the complex penetration testing tasks. In this chapter, we'll have a high-level overview of exploit development. Exploit development can be quite complex and tedious and is such a vast topic that an entire book can be written on this. However, in this chapter, we'll try to get a gist of what exploit development is, why it is required, and how the Metasploit Framework helps us develop exploit. The topics to be covered in this chapter are as follows:
- Exploit development concepts
- Adding external exploits to Metasploit
- Introduction to Metasploit exploit templates and mixins