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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838980078

Length 502 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

C

Tools

Metasploit

Concepts

Penetration Testing

Author (1):

Nipun Jaswal

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

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

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Chapter 12: Tips and Tricks

Throughout this book, we have discussed a lot of techniques and methodologies revolving around Metasploit—from exploit development to scripting in Armitage, we covered it all; however, to ensure that we adhere to the best practices when working with Metasploit, we must know the tips and tricks for making the most of the Metasploit framework. In this chapter, we will cover some quick tips and scripts that will aid in penetration testing with Metasploit. We will cover the following topics:

Automation using the Minion script
Using connect instead of Netcat
Shell upgrades and background sessions
Naming conventions
Saving configurations in Metasploit
Using the inline handler and renaming jobs
Running commands on multiple Meterpreter sessions
Automating the Social Engineering Toolkit
Cheat sheets on Metasploit and penetration testing

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Authors (1)

Nipun Jaswal

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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