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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 4. Metasploit Components and Environment Configuration

For any tool that we use to perform a particular task, it's always helpful to know that tool inside out. A detailed understanding of the tool enables us to use it aptly, making it perform to the fullest of its capability. Now that you have learned some of the absolute basics of the Metasploit Framework and its installation, in this chapter, you will learn how the Metasploit Framework is structured and what the various components of the Metasploit ecosystem. The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Anatomy and structure of Metasploit
  • Metasploit components--auxiliaries, exploits, encoders, payloads, and post
  • Getting started with msfconsole and common commands
  • Configuring local and global variables
  • Updating the framework