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Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch.

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Product type Book
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788622059
Pages 564 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Zaid Sabih Zaid Sabih
Profile icon Zaid Sabih
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Table of Contents (24) Chapters close

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Setting Up a Lab 3. Linux Basics 4. Network Penetration Testing 5. Pre-Connection Attacks 6. Network Penetration Testing - Gaining Access 7. Post-Connection Attacks 8. Man-in-the-Middle Attacks 9. Network Penetration Testing, Detection, and Security 10. Gaining Access to Computer Devices 11. Scanning Vulnerabilities Using Tools 12. Client-Side Attacks 13. Client-Side Attacks - Social Engineering 14. Attack and Detect Trojans with BeEF 15. Attacks Outside the Local Network 16. Post Exploitation 17. Website Penetration Testing 18. Website Pentesting - Information Gathering 19. File Upload, Code Execution, and File Inclusion Vulnerabilities 20. SQL Injection Vulnerabilities 21. Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities 22. Discovering Vulnerabilities Automatically Using OWASP ZAP 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Meterpreter basics

In this section, we'll learn some basics on how to interact with Metasploit's Meterpreter. In Linux, the help command is always the best command to run in terms of getting information about a specific command. So, the first thing that we will do is run the help command, to get a big list of all of the commands that we can run, and a description of what each command does, as shown in the following screenshot:

Looking at some of the basics, the first thing that we will highlight is the background command, as follows:

The background command basically backgrounds the current session without terminating it. It's very similar to minimizing a window. So, after running the background command, we can go back to Metasploit and run other commands to further exploit the target machine (or other machines), maintaining our connection to the computer that...

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