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Metasploit Bootcamp

By : Nipun Jaswal
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Metasploit Bootcamp

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.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

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...