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Metasploit Bootcamp

By : Nipun Jaswal

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Metasploit Bootcamp

4.4 (8)

By: Nipun Jaswal

Overview of this book

The book starts with a hands-on Day 1 chapter, covering the basics of the Metasploit framework and preparing the readers for a self-completion exercise at the end of every chapter. The Day 2 chapter dives deep into the use of scanning and fingerprinting services with Metasploit while helping the readers to modify existing modules according to their needs. Following on from the previous chapter, Day 3 will focus on exploiting various types of service and client-side exploitation while Day 4 will focus on post-exploitation, and writing quick scripts that helps with gathering the required information from the exploited systems. The Day 5 chapter presents the reader with the techniques involved in scanning and exploiting various services, such as databases, mobile devices, and VOIP. The Day 6 chapter prepares the reader to speed up and integrate Metasploit with leading industry tools for penetration testing. Finally, Day 7 brings in sophisticated attack vectors and challenges based on the user’s preparation over the past six days and ends with a Metasploit challenge to solve.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

Getting Started with Metasploit

Getting Started with Metasploit

Setting up Kali Linux in a virtual environment

The fundamentals of Metasploit

Benefits of using Metasploit

Penetration testing with Metasploit

Phase-I: footprinting and scanning

Phase-II: gaining access to the target

Phase-III: maintaining access / post-exploitation / covering tracks

Summary and exercises

Identifying and Scanning Targets

Identifying and Scanning Targets

Working with FTP servers using Metasploit

Scanning MSSQL servers with Metasploit

Scanning SNMP services with Metasploit

Scanning NetBIOS services with Metasploit

Scanning HTTP services with Metasploit

Scanning HTTPS/SSL with Metasploit

Module building essentials

Disassembling existing HTTP server scanner modules

Summary and exercises

Exploitation and Gaining Access

Exploitation and Gaining Access

Setting up the practice environment

Exploiting applications with Metasploit

Exploiting browsers for fun and profit

Attacking Android with Metasploit

Converting exploits to Metasploit

Summary and exercises

Post-Exploitation with Metasploit

Post-Exploitation with Metasploit

Extended post-exploitation with Metasploit

Metasploit and privilege escalation

Gaining persistent access with Metasploit

Summary

Testing Services with Metasploit

Testing Services with Metasploit

Testing MySQL with Metasploit

The fundamentals of SCADA

Testing Voice over Internet Protocol services

Summary and exercises

Fast-Paced Exploitation with Metasploit

Fast-Paced Exploitation with Metasploit

Using pushm and popm commands

Making use of resource scripts

Using AutoRunScript in Metasploit

Global variables in Metasploit

Wrapping up and generating manual reports

Summary and preparation for real-world scenarios

Exploiting Real-World Challenges with Metasploit

Exploiting Real-World Challenges with Metasploit

Scenario 1: Mirror environment

Scenario 2: You can't see my meterpreter

Further roadmap and summary

Scenario 2: You can't see my meterpreter

Throughout the previous chapters, we saw how we can take control of a variety of systems using Metasploit. However, the one important thing which we did not take into account is the presence of antivirus solutions on most operating systems. Let us create a backdoor executable of type windows/meterpreter/reverse_tcp, as follows:

We can now put this executable along with any exploit or office document, or we can bind it with any other executable and send it across to a target that is running windows and has an AVG AntiVirus solution running on his system. Let us see what happens when the target executes the file:

Our generated file caused sudden alarms by AVG AntiVirus and got detected. Let's scan our generic.exe file on the majyx scanner to get an overview of the detection rate, as follows:

We can see that 44/70 AVs detected our file as malicious. This is quite disheartening since as a law enforcement agent you might get only a single shot at getting...

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