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The Complete Metasploit Guide

By : Sagar Rahalkar, Nipun Jaswal
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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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The Exploit Formulation Process

This chapter is all about creating exploit modules and helping to understand how inbuilt Metasploit utilities can improve the creation process. In this chapter, we will cover various exemplar vulnerabilities, and we will try to develop approaches and methods to exploit these vulnerabilities. In addition to that, our primary focus will be on building exploit modules for Metasploit. We will also cover a wide variety of tools that will aid writing exploits in Metasploit. An essential aspect of exploit writing is the computer architecture. If we do not include the basics of the architecture, we will not be able to understand how exploits work at the lower levels. Therefore, let's first start a discussion about the system architecture and the essentials required to write exploits.

By the end of this chapter, we will know more about the following...