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The Complete Metasploit Guide

By : Sagar Rahalkar, Nipun Jaswal
Book Image

The Complete Metasploit Guide

By: Sagar Rahalkar, Nipun Jaswal

Overview of this book

Most businesses today are driven by their IT infrastructure, and the tiniest crack in this IT network can bring down the entire business. Metasploit is a pentesting network that can validate your system by performing elaborate penetration tests using the Metasploit Framework to secure your infrastructure. This Learning Path introduces you to the basic functionalities and applications of Metasploit. Throughout this book, you’ll learn different techniques for programming Metasploit modules to validate services such as databases, fingerprinting, and scanning. You’ll get to grips with post exploitation and write quick scripts to gather information from exploited systems. As you progress, you’ll delve into real-world scenarios where performing penetration tests are a challenge. With the help of these case studies, you’ll explore client-side attacks using Metasploit and a variety of scripts built on the Metasploit Framework. By the end of this Learning Path, you’ll have the skills required to identify system vulnerabilities by using thorough testing. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: Metasploit for Beginners by Sagar Rahalkar Mastering Metasploit - Third Edition by Nipun Jaswal
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
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Mounting the environment

A successful penetration test largely depends on how well your work environment and labs are configured. Moreover, a successful test answers the following set of questions:

  • How well is your test lab configured?
  • Are all the required tools for testing available?
  • How good is your hardware to support such tools?

Before we begin to test anything, we must make sure that all of the required sets of tools are available and updated.

Setting up Kali Linux in a virtual environment

Before using Metasploit, we need to have a test lab. The best idea for setting up a test lab is to gather different machines and install different operating systems on them. However, if we only have a single device, the best idea is to set...