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Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester

By : Sagar Rahalkar, Nipun Jaswal
Book Image

Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester

By: Sagar Rahalkar, Nipun Jaswal

Overview of this book

Metasploit is a popular penetration testing framework that has one of the largest exploit databases around. This book will show you exactly how to prepare yourself against the attacks you will face every day by simulating real-world possibilities. This learning path will begin by introducing you to Metasploit and its functionalities. You will learn how to set up and configure Metasploit on various platforms to create a virtual test environment. You will also get your hands on various tools and components and get hands-on experience with carrying out client-side attacks. In the next part of this learning path, you’ll develop the ability to perform testing on various services such as SCADA, databases, IoT, mobile, tablets, and many more services. After this training, we jump into real-world sophisticated scenarios where performing penetration tests are a challenge. With real-life case studies, we take you on a journey through client-side attacks using Metasploit and various scripts built on the Metasploit framework. The final instalment of your learning journey will be covered through a bootcamp approach. You will be able to bring together the learning together and speed up and integrate Metasploit with leading industry tools for penetration testing. You’ll finish by working on challenges based on user’s preparation and work towards solving the challenge. The course provides you with highly practical content explaining Metasploit from the following Packt books: 1. Metasploit for Beginners 2. Mastering Metasploit, Second Edition 3. Metasploit Bootcamp
Table of Contents (35 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Module 1
31
Bibliography

Gaining persistent access with Metasploit


Gaining persistent access to the target systems is important when you are a part of a law enforcement agency. However, in a conventional penetration test, persistence may not be very practical, unless the testable environment is huge and will take many days for the test to complete. But this doesn't mean that it is not worth knowing how to maintain access to the target. In the following section, we will cover persistence techniques, which one can use to maintain access to the target system. In addition, Metasploit has depreciated the persistence and metsvc modules in meterpreter, which were used to maintain access to the target. Let's cover the new techniques for achieving persistence.

Gaining persistent access on Windows-based systems

In this example, we have already gained meterpreter access to a system running Windows Server 2012 R2. Let's move the meterpreter to the background using the background command and use the latest persistence module,...