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Mastering Metasploit

You're reading from   Mastering Metasploit Exploit systems, cover your tracks, and bypass security controls with the Metasploit 5.0 framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838980078
Length 502 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1 – Preparation and Development
2. Chapter 1: Approaching a Penetration Test Using Metasploit FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Reinventing Metasploit 4. Chapter 3: The Exploit Formulation Process 5. Chapter 4: Porting Exploits 6. Section 2 – The Attack Phase
7. Chapter 5: Testing Services with Metasploit 8. Chapter 6: Virtual Test Grounds and Staging 9. Chapter 7: Client-Side Exploitation 10. Section 3 – Post-Exploitation and Evasion
11. Chapter 8: Metasploit Extended 12. Chapter 9: Evasion with Metasploit 13. Chapter 10: Metasploit for Secret Agents 14. Chapter 11: Visualizing Metasploit 15. Chapter 12: Tips and Tricks 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Automation using the Minion script

I was randomly checking GitHub for automation scripts when I found this gem of a script. Minion is a plugin for Metasploit, and it can be convenient for quick exploitation and scans. The Minion plugin for Metasploit can be downloaded from https://github.com/T-S-A/Minion.

We can download the file to the ~/.msf4/plugins directory or, in case it doesn't work, copy it to the /usr/share/metasploit-framework/plugins directory, fire up msfconsole, and issue the load minion command, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 12.1 – Loading the Minion plugin in Metasploit

In the previous chapters, we saw how we could quickly load a plugin into Metasploit using the load command. Now, let's load the Minion plugin using the load minion command, as shown in the preceding screenshot. Once loaded successfully, switch to the workspace you have been working on or perform an Nmap scan in case there are no hosts in the...

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