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Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester

You're reading from   Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester Build your defense against complex attacks

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Product type Course
Published in Dec 2017
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ISBN-13 9781788624596
Length 860 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nipun Jaswal Nipun Jaswal
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Nipun Jaswal
Sagar Rahalkar Sagar Rahalkar
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Table of Contents (35) Chapters Close

Title Page
Credits
Preface
1. Module 1 FREE CHAPTER 2. Introduction to Metasploit and Supporting Tools 3. Setting up Your Environment 4. Metasploit Components and Environment Configuration 5. Information Gathering with Metasploit 6. Vulnerability Hunting with Metasploit 7. Client-side Attacks with Metasploit 8. Web Application Scanning with Metasploit 9. Antivirus Evasion and Anti-Forensics 10. Cyber Attack Management with Armitage 11. Extending Metasploit and Exploit Development 12. Module 2 13. Approaching a Penetration Test Using Metasploit 14. Reinventing Metasploit 15. The Exploit Formulation Process 16. Porting Exploits 17. Testing Services with Metasploit 18. Virtual Test Grounds and Staging 19. Client-side Exploitation 20. Metasploit Extended 21. Speeding up Penetration Testing 22. Visualizing with Armitage 23. Module 3 24. Getting Started with Metasploit 25. Identifying and Scanning Targets 26. Exploitation and Gaining Access 27. Post-Exploitation with Metasploit 28. Testing Services with Metasploit 29. Fast-Paced Exploitation with Metasploit 30. Exploiting Real-World Challenges with Metasploit 31. Bibliography
32. Thanks page

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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