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You're reading from Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook Evade antiviruses, bypass firewalls, and exploit complex environments with the most widely used penetration testing framework

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788623179

Length 426 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Ruby

Tools

Metasploit

Concepts

Penetration Testing

Authors (4):

Monika Agarwal

Abhinav Singh

Nipun Jaswal

Daniel Teixeira

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Metasploit Quick Tips for Security Professionals FREE CHAPTER

2. Information Gathering and Scanning

3. Server-Side Exploitation

4. Meterpreter

5. Post-Exploitation

6. Using MSFvenom

7. Client-Side Exploitation and Antivirus Bypass

8. Social-Engineer Toolkit

9. Working with Modules for Penetration Testing

10. Exploring Exploits

11. Wireless Network Penetration Testing

12. Cloud Penetration Testing

13. Best Practices

14. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Exploiting a Linux server

Linux is one of the most widely used operating systems. In the previous few recipes, we saw how to scan for available services and use vulnerability scanners to find vulnerabilities. In this recipe, we will deal with Linux operating systems. We will be using the Metasploitable 2, for our vulnerable Linux machine in this recipe, but the process will be similar for exploiting any flavor of Linux and Solaris running the Samba service. Let's move ahead with the recipe.

Getting ready

First, will use the services command to display the results from our previous nmap scan and filter for ports 139 and 445:

msf > services -c port,info -p 139,445 192.168.216.129

Services
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host          ...

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Authors (4)

Teixeira

Daniel Teixeira is an IT security expert, author, and trainer, specializing in red team engagements, penetration testing, and vulnerability assessments. His main areas of focus are adversary simulation, emulation of modern adversarial tactics, techniques and procedures; vulnerability research, and exploit development.

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Agarwal

Deepak Agarwal is a Microsoft Certified Professional who has more than 6 years of relevant experience. He has worked with different versions of Axapta, such as AX 2009, AX 2012, and Dynamics 365. He has had a wide range of development, consulting, and leading roles, while always maintaining a significant role as a business application developer. Although his strengths are rooted in X++ development, he is a highly regarded developer and expert in the technical aspects of Dynamics AX development and customization. He has also worked on base product development with the Microsoft team. He was awarded the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award from Microsoft for Dynamics AX four times in a row, and he has held this title since 2013. He shares his experience with Dynamics AX on his blog: Axapta V/s Me Deepak has also worked on the following Packt books: Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 Reporting Cookbook Dynamics AX 2012 Reporting Cookbook Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Programming: Getting Started

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Singh

Contacted on 12/01/18 by Davis Anto

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Nipun Jaswal

Nipun Jaswal is an international cybersecurity author and an award-winning IT security researcher with more than a decade of experience in penetration testing, Red Team assessments, vulnerability research, RF, and wireless hacking. He is presently the Director of Cybersecurity Practices at BDO India. Nipun has trained and worked with multiple law enforcement agencies on vulnerability research and exploit development. He has also authored numerous articles and exploits that can be found on popular security databases, such as PacketStorm and exploit-db. Please feel free to contact him at @nipunjaswal.

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