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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

This chapter explained a hands-on approach to client-based exploitation. Learning client-based exploitation will ease a penetration tester into performing internal audits, or into a situation where internal attacks can be more impactful than external ones.

In this chapter, we looked at a variety of techniques that can help us to attack client-based systems. We looked at browser-based exploitation and its variants. We exploited Windows-based systems using Arduino. We learned how to create various file format-based exploits. Lastly, we also learned how to exploit Android devices.

In the next chapter, we will look at post-exploitation in detail. We will cover some advanced post-exploitation modules, which will allow us to harvest tons of useful information from the target systems.