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Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook

You're reading from   Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook Over 70 recipes to master the most widely used penetration testing framework with this book and ebook.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849517423
Length 268 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Abhinav Singh Abhinav Singh
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Metasploit Quick Tips for Security Professionals 2. Information Gathering and Scanning FREE CHAPTER 3. Operating System-based Vulnerability Assessment and Exploitation 4. Client-side Exploitation and Antivirus Bypass 5. Using Meterpreter to Explore the Compromised Target 6. Advanced Meterpreter Scripting 7. Working with Modules for Penetration Testing 8. Working with Exploits 9. Working with Armitage 10. Social Engineer Toolkit Index

Internet Explorer CSS recursive call memory corruption


This is one of the most recent exploits available for the Windows platform running IE browser. This exploit is known to affect Windows 7 and Windows 2008 server with IE 8 as the default browser. The working process of this exploit is similar to the one we just discussed in the previous recipe. So let us quickly test it. Our target machine is a Windows 7 ultimate edition with IE 8 (unpatched) running as the default browser.

Getting ready

We will start with launching the msfconsole. Our exploit in this recipe is exploit/windows/browser/ms11_003_ie_css_import and our payload will be windows/meterpreter/bind_tcp which will help in gaining shell connectivity with the target machine.

How to do it...

We will start the same way we have been doing so far. First, we will select the exploit. Then, we will select the payload and pass on the various parameter values required by the exploit and the payload. Let us move ahead with all these steps in...

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