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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)

Virtual Test Grounds and Staging

We have covered a lot in the past few chapters. It is now time to test all the methodologies that we have covered throughout this book, along with various other famous testing tools, and see how we can efficiently perform penetration testing and vulnerability assessments over the target network, website, or other services, using industry-leading tools within Metasploit.

During this chapter, we will look at various methods for testing, and will cover the following topics:

  • Using Metasploit along with the industry's multiple other penetration testing tools
  • Importing the reports generated from various tools, and different formats into the Metasploit framework
  • Creating penetration test reports

The primary focus of this chapter is to cover penetration testing with other industry-leading tools alongside Metasploit; however, the phases of a test...