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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
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Section 2: Practical Metasploit

Understanding Metasploit mixins

If you are familiar with programming languages, such as C and Java, you must have come across terms such as functions and classes. Functions in C and classes in Java basically allow code reuse. This makes the program more efficient. The Metasploit Framework is written in the Ruby language. So, from the perspective of the Ruby language, a mixin is nothing but a simple module that is included in a class. This will enable the class to have access to all methods of this module.

So, without going into much detail about programming, you can simply remember that mixins help in modular programming. For instance, you may want to perform some TCP operations, such as connecting to a remote port and fetching some data. Now, to complete this task, you might have to write quite a lot of code altogether. However, if you make use of the already available TCP mixin, you will end up saving the effort of writing the entire code from scratch! You will simply include...