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Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook

You're reading from   Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook Over 70 recipes to master the most widely used penetration testing framework with this book and ebook.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849517423
Length 268 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Abhinav Singh Abhinav Singh
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Metasploit Quick Tips for Security Professionals 2. Information Gathering and Scanning FREE CHAPTER 3. Operating System-based Vulnerability Assessment and Exploitation 4. Client-side Exploitation and Antivirus Bypass 5. Using Meterpreter to Explore the Compromised Target 6. Advanced Meterpreter Scripting 7. Working with Modules for Penetration Testing 8. Working with Exploits 9. Working with Armitage 10. Social Engineer Toolkit Index

Working with msfvenom


We have read about mefencode and msfpayload in Chapter 4, Client-side Exploitation and Antivirus Bypass. Let us take a small recap. msfpayload is used to generate binary from the payload, whereas msfencode is used for encoding the binary using different encoding techniques. Here we will discuss another Metasploit tool which is a combination of both. This tool can play an important role in generating exploits that can execute stealthily.

Getting ready

To start our experiment with msfvenom, launch the terminal window and pass on the msfvenom –h command.

How to do it...

Let us take a look at various available options:

root@bt:~# msfvenom -h
Usage: /opt/framework/msf3/msfvenom [options] 

Options:
    -p, --payload    [payload]       Payload to use. Specify a '-' or stdin to use custom..
    -l, --list       [module_type]   List a module type example: payloads, encoders, nops, all
    -n, --nopsled    [length]        Prepend a nopsled of [length] size on to the payload
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