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Mastering Metasploit

You're reading from   Mastering Metasploit Discover the next level of network defense with the Metasploit framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463166
Length 440 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Nipun Jaswal Nipun Jaswal
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Preface 1. Approaching a Penetration Test Using Metasploit FREE CHAPTER 2. Reinventing Metasploit 3. The Exploit Formulation Process 4. Porting Exploits 5. Testing Services with Metasploit 6. Virtual Test Grounds and Staging 7. Client-side Exploitation 8. Metasploit Extended 9. Speeding up Penetration Testing 10. Visualizing with Armitage

Additional post exploitation modules


Metasploit offers 250+ post-exploitation modules. However, we will only cover a few interesting ones and will leave the rest for you.

Gathering wireless SSIDs with Metasploit

Wireless networks around the target system can be discovered easily using the wlan_bss_list module. This allows us to fingerprint location and other important information about the target as follows:

Gathering Wi-Fi passwords with Metasploit

Similar to the preceding module, we have the wlan_profile module, which gathers all saved credentials for Wi-Fi from the target system. We can use the module as follows:

We can see the name of the network in the <name> tag, and the password in the <keyMaterial> tag in the preceding screenshot.

Getting applications list

Metasploit offers credential harvesters for various types of application. However, in order to figure out which applications are installed on the target, we need to fetch the list of the application using the get_application_list...

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