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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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Installing Metasploit on Linux

For the scope of this book, we will be installing the Metasploit Framework on Ubuntu (Debian based) system. Before we begin the installation, we first need to download the latest installer. This can be done using wget command as follows:

  1. Open a terminal window and type:
wget http://downloads.metasploit.com/data/releases/metasploit-latest-linux-installer.run
  1. Once the installer has been downloaded, we need to change the mode of the installer to be executable. This can be done as follows:
    • For 64-bit systems: chmod +x /path/to/metasploit-latest-linux-x64-installer.run
    • For 32-bit systems: chmod +x /path/to/metasploit-latest-linux-installer.run
  2. Now we are ready to launch the installer using the following command:

    • For 64-bit systems: sudo /path/to/metasploit-latest-linux-x64-installer.run
    • For 32-bit systems: sudo /path/to/metasploit-latest-linux...