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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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Summary and exercises

Throughout this chapter, we learned AV evasion techniques using custom encoders, we bypassed the signature matching of IDS systems, and we also avoided Windows firewall blocked ports using the all-TCP-ports Meterpreter payload.

You can try the following exercises to enhance your evasion skills:

  • Try delaying execution of the payload without using sleep() function in the decoder and analyze the detection ratio change
  • Try using other logical operations such as NOT, double XOR, and use simple ciphers such as ROT with the payloads
  • Bypass at least 3 signatures from Snort and get them fixed
  • Learn and use SSH tunneling for bypassing firewalls

The next chapter relies heavily on these techniques and takes a deep dive into Metasploit.