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You're reading from Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook Evade antiviruses, bypass firewalls, and exploit complex environments with the most widely used penetration testing framework

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788623179

Length 426 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Ruby

Tools

Metasploit

Concepts

Penetration Testing

Authors (4):

Monika Agarwal

Abhinav Singh

Nipun Jaswal

Daniel Teixeira

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Metasploit Quick Tips for Security Professionals FREE CHAPTER

2. Information Gathering and Scanning

3. Server-Side Exploitation

4. Meterpreter

5. Post-Exploitation

6. Using MSFvenom

7. Client-Side Exploitation and Antivirus Bypass

8. Social-Engineer Toolkit

9. Working with Modules for Penetration Testing

10. Exploring Exploits

11. Wireless Network Penetration Testing

12. Cloud Penetration Testing

13. Best Practices

14. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Infectious media generator

The infectious media generator is a relatively simple attack vector. SET will create a Metasploit-based payload, set up a listener for you, and generate a folder that needs to be burned or written to a DVD/USB drive. Once inserted, if autorun is enabled, the code will automatically execute and take control of the machine:

How to do it...

This attack vector is based on the simple principle of generating a malicious executable and then encoding it with available encoders, so as to bypass antivirus protection. The following are some examples of infectious media generators with their descriptions as well:

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Authors (6)

Teixeira

Daniel Teixeira is an IT security expert, author, and trainer, specializing in red team engagements, penetration testing, and vulnerability assessments. His main areas of focus are adversary simulation, emulation of modern adversarial tactics, techniques and procedures; vulnerability research, and exploit development.

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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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Singh

Contacted on 12/01/18 by Davis Anto

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Agarwal

Deepak Agarwal is a Microsoft Certified Professional who has more than 6 years of relevant experience. He has worked with different versions of Axapta, such as AX 2009, AX 2012, and Dynamics 365. He has had a wide range of development, consulting, and leading roles, while always maintaining a significant role as a business application developer. Although his strengths are rooted in X++ development, he is a highly regarded developer and expert in the technical aspects of Dynamics AX development and customization. He has also worked on base product development with the Microsoft team. He was awarded the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award from Microsoft for Dynamics AX four times in a row, and he has held this title since 2013. He shares his experience with Dynamics AX on his blog: Axapta V/s Me Deepak has also worked on the following Packt books: Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 Reporting Cookbook Dynamics AX 2012 Reporting Cookbook Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Programming: Getting Started

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Abhinav Singh

Abhinav Singh is a well-known information security researcher. He is the author of Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook (first and second editions) and Instant Wireshark Starter, by Packt. He is an active contributor to the security community—paper publications, articles, and blogs. His work has been quoted in several security and privacy magazines, and digital portals. He is a frequent speaker at eminent international conferences—Black Hat and RSA. His areas of expertise include malware research, reverse engineering, and cloud security.

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Agarwal

Monika Agarwal is a young Information Security Researcher from India. She has presented many research papers at both national and international conferences. She is a member of IAENG (International Association of Engineers). Her main areas of interest are ethical hacking and ad hoc networking.

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