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Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Daniel Teixeira, Abhinav Singh, Nipun Jaswal, Monika Agarwal
Book Image

Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Daniel Teixeira, Abhinav Singh, Nipun Jaswal, Monika Agarwal

Overview of this book

Metasploit is the world's leading penetration testing tool and helps security and IT professionals find, exploit, and validate vulnerabilities. Metasploit allows penetration testing automation, password auditing, web application scanning, social engineering, post exploitation, evidence collection, and reporting. Metasploit's integration with InsightVM (or Nexpose), Nessus, OpenVas, and other vulnerability scanners provides a validation solution that simplifies vulnerability prioritization and remediation reporting. Teams can collaborate in Metasploit and present their findings in consolidated reports. In this book, you will go through great recipes that will allow you to start using Metasploit effectively. With an ever increasing level of complexity, and covering everything from the fundamentals to more advanced features in Metasploit, this book is not just for beginners but also for professionals keen to master this awesome tool. You will begin by building your lab environment, setting up Metasploit, and learning how to perform intelligence gathering, threat modeling, vulnerability analysis, exploitation, and post exploitation—all inside Metasploit. You will learn how to create and customize payloads to evade anti-virus software and bypass an organization's defenses, exploit server vulnerabilities, attack client systems, compromise mobile phones, automate post exploitation, install backdoors, run keyloggers, highjack webcams, port public exploits to the framework, create your own modules, and much more.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Contributors
Packt Upsell
Preface
Index

Exploiting the module structure


It is essential to understand the exploit module structure, as it will help us analyze different exploit modules. Since the Metasploit Framework is an open source project, its development depends on contributions from the community. Developers from around the globe convert proof of concepts of various exploits into the Metasploit module so that they can be used by everyone. Hence, you can also contribute to the community by converting newly discovered exploits into modules. Also, there may be a situation where you need a particular exploit that is not in the framework. Knowledge about the exploit module structure will help you easily convert the exploit into a module. In this recipe, we will get to know the basic structure of a module.

Getting ready

You can find the exploit modules in the /usr/share/metasploit-framework/modules/exploits directory. Let's start the recipe analyzing the structure of exploits in the Metasploit Framework.

How to do it...

As we discussed...