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Metasploit 5.0 for Beginners - Second Edition

By : Sagar Rahalkar
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Metasploit 5.0 for Beginners - Second Edition

By: Sagar Rahalkar

Overview of this book

Securing an IT environment can be challenging, however, effective penetration testing and threat identification can make all the difference. This book will help you learn how to use the Metasploit Framework optimally for comprehensive penetration testing. Complete with hands-on tutorials and case studies, this updated second edition will teach you the basics of the Metasploit Framework along with its functionalities. You’ll learn how to set up and configure Metasploit on various platforms to create a virtual test environment. Next, you’ll get hands-on with the essential tools. As you progress, you’ll learn how to find weaknesses in the target system and hunt for vulnerabilities using Metasploit and its supporting tools and components. Later, you'll get to grips with web app security scanning, bypassing anti-virus, and post-compromise methods for clearing traces on the target system. The concluding chapters will take you through real-world case studies and scenarios that will help you apply the knowledge you’ve gained to ethically hack into target systems. You’ll also discover the latest security techniques that can be directly applied to scan, test, ethically hack, and secure networks and systems with Metasploit. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to use the Metasploit 5.0 Framework to exploit real-world vulnerabilities.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction and Environment Setup
5
Section 2: Practical Metasploit

Understanding exploit templates and mixins

Let's suppose that you have written an exploit code for a new zero-day vulnerability. Now, if you want to make it part of the Metasploit Framework, you need to ensure it is in a particular format. Fortunately, you just need to focus on the actual exploit code and then simply use a readily available template (provided by the Metasploit Framework) to insert it in the required format.

The exploit module skeleton is readily provided by the Metasploit Framework, as in the following code:

##
# This module requires Metasploit: http://metasploit.com/download
# Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework
##
require 'msf/core'
class MetasploitModule < Msf::Exploit::Remote
Rank = NormalRanking
def initialize(info={})
super(update_info(info,
'Name' => '[Vendor] [Software] [Root Cause] [Vulnerability type]',
'Description' => %q{
Say something that the user might need to know...