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Mastering Metasploit - Third Edition

By : Nipun Jaswal
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Mastering Metasploit - Third Edition

By: Nipun Jaswal

Overview of this book

We start by reminding you about the basic functionalities of Metasploit and its use in the most traditional ways. You’ll get to know about the basics of programming Metasploit modules as a refresher and then dive into carrying out exploitation as well building and porting exploits of various kinds in Metasploit. In the next section, you’ll develop the ability to perform testing on various services such as databases, Cloud environment, IoT, mobile, tablets, and similar 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. By the end of the book, you will be trained specifically on time-saving techniques using Metasploit.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Visualizing with Armitage

We covered how Metasploit can help law enforcement agencies in the previous chapter. Let's continue with a great tool that can not only speed up exploitation but also provide an extensive red teaming environment for the testing teams.

Armitage is a GUI tool that acts as an attack manager for Metasploit. Armitage visualizes Metasploit operations and recommends exploits as well. Armitage is capable of providing shared access and team management to Metasploit.

In this chapter, we will look at Armitage and its features. We will also look at how we can conduct penetration testing with this GUI-enabled tool for Metasploit. In the later half of this chapter, we will work on Cortana scripting for Armitage.

Throughout this chapter, we will cover the following key points:

  • Penetration testing with Armitage
  • Scanning networks and host management
  • Post-exploitation...