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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

Chapter 30. Exploiting Real-World Challenges with Metasploit

Welcome! This chapter is the final and most complicated chapter of the book. I recommend you read through all the previous chapters and exercises before proceeding with this chapter. However, if you have completed all the tasks and done some research by yourself, let's move on to facing real-world challenges and solving them with Metasploit. In this chapter, we will cover two scenarios based on real-world problems with regard to being a penetration tester and a state-sponsored hacker. Both challenges pose a different set of requirements; for example, evasion would typically be more relevant to a law enforcement cyber player than a corporate penetration tester and the case is the same for achieving persistence on systems. The agenda of this chapter is to familiarize you with the following:

  • Pivoting to internal networks
  • Using web application bugs for gaining access
  • Cracking password hashes
  • Using the target system as a proxy
  • Evading antivirus...