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The Complete Metasploit Guide

By : Sagar Rahalkar, Nipun Jaswal
Book Image

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)
Title Page

Exploitation with Armitage

After the Attack menu becomes available to a host, we are all set to exploit the target. Let's target the HttpFileServer httpd 2.3 with the Rejetto HTTPFileServer Remote Command Execution exploit from the Attack menu. Clicking on the Exploit option will present a new pop-up that displays all the settings. Let's set all the required options as follows:

After setting all the options, click on Launch to run the exploit module against the target. We will be able to see exploitation being carried out on the target in the third pane of the interface after we launch the exploit module, as shown in the following screenshot:

We can see Meterpreter launching, which denotes the successful exploitation of the target. Also, the icon of the target host changes to the possessed system icon with red lightning.