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Mastering Metasploit - Fourth Edition

By : Nipun Jaswal
Book Image

Mastering Metasploit - Fourth Edition

By: Nipun Jaswal

Overview of this book

Updated for the latest version of Metasploit, this book will prepare you to face everyday cyberattacks by simulating real-world scenarios. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples, Mastering Metasploit will help you gain insights into programming Metasploit modules and carrying out exploitation, as well as building and porting various kinds of exploits in Metasploit. Giving you the ability to perform tests on different services, including databases, IoT, and mobile, this Metasploit book will help you get to grips with real-world, sophisticated scenarios where performing penetration tests is a challenge. You'll then learn a variety of methods and techniques to evade security controls deployed at a target's endpoint. As you advance, you’ll script automated attacks using CORTANA and Armitage to aid penetration testing by developing virtual bots and discover how you can add custom functionalities in Armitage. Following real-world case studies, this book will take you on a journey through client-side attacks using Metasploit and various scripts built on the Metasploit 5.0 framework. By the end of the book, you’ll have developed the skills you need to work confidently with efficient exploitation techniques
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1 – Preparation and Development
6
Section 2 – The Attack Phase
10
Section 3 – Post-Exploitation and Evasion

Summary

In this chapter, we covered coding for Metasploit. We worked on modules, post-exploitation scripts, Meterpreter, RailGun, and Ruby programming. Throughout this chapter, we saw how we could add our custom functions to the Metasploit Framework, and make the already robust framework much more powerful. We began by familiarizing ourselves with the basics of Ruby. We learned about writing auxiliary modules, post-exploitation scripts, and Meterpreter extensions. We saw how we could make use of RailGun to add custom functions, such as adding a DLL file and a custom function to the target's DLL files.

In the next chapter, we will look at development in context and exploiting modules in Metasploit. This is where we will begin to write custom exploits, fuzz various parameters for exploitation, exploit software, and write advanced exploits for software and the web.