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Penetration Testing Bootcamp

You're reading from   Penetration Testing Bootcamp Quickly get up and running with pentesting techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787288744
Length 258 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jason Beltrame Jason Beltrame
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Planning and Preparation 2. Information Gathering FREE CHAPTER 3. Setting up and maintaining the Command and Control Server 4. Vulnerability Scanning and Metasploit 5. Traffic Sniffing and Spoofing 6. Password-based Attacks 7. Attacks on the Network Infrastructure 8. Web Application Attacks 9. Cleaning Up and Getting Out 10. Writing Up the Penetration Testing Report

Exploiting our targets with Metasploit

Now, it is time to try and exploit some of the targets we found during our vulnerability scans. This is where msfconsole will become our new best friend. Msfconsole is the single pane of glass/centralized console for Metasploit. It's my favorite way to use Metasploit, since it is one of the few ways by which we can access most of the features contained in the product.

To launch msfconsole, just open up a Terminal window and type msfconsole --help. Now, there are a bunch of options you can pass when starting msfconsole. Here is a screenshot of these options:

However, for my tests, we are just going to run the command without any additional options. To do this, just run msfconsole from the command line, and you should get to the msf prompt:

Once inside msfconsole, it can definitely be intimidating. Running the help command will display...

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