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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

Railgun—converting Ruby into a weapon


In the previous recipe, we saw the use of the Meterpreter API to run Ruby scripts. Let's take that a step further. Suppose we want to make remote API calls on the victim machine; what is the simplest method? Railgun is the obvious answer. It is a Meterpreter extension that allows an attacker to call DLL functions directly. Most often, it is used to make calls to the Windows API, but we can call any DLL on the victim's machine.

Getting ready

To start using Railgun, we will require an active Meterpreter session on our target machine. To start the Ruby interpreter, we will use the irb command, as discussed in the previous recipe:

meterpreter > irb
[*] Starting IRB shell
[*] The "client" variable holds the meterpreter client
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How to do it...

Before we move on to calling DLLs, let's first see what the essential steps to follow are in order to get the best out of Railgun:

  1. Identify the function(s) you wish to call.
  2. Locate the function on https://msdn.microsoft...