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The Complete Metasploit Guide

You're reading from   The Complete Metasploit Guide Explore effective penetration testing techniques with Metasploit

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Product type Course
Published in Jun 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838822477
Length 660 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sagar Rahalkar Sagar Rahalkar
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Nipun Jaswal Nipun Jaswal
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Title Page
Copyright About Packt Contributors Preface 1. Introduction to Metasploit and Supporting Tools 2. Setting up Your Environment FREE CHAPTER 3. Metasploit Components and Environment Configuration 4. Information Gathering with Metasploit 5. Vulnerability Hunting with Metasploit 6. Client-side Attacks with Metasploit 7. Web Application Scanning with Metasploit 8. Antivirus Evasion and Anti-Forensics 9. Cyber Attack Management with Armitage 10. Extending Metasploit and Exploit Development 11. Approaching a Penetration Test Using Metasploit 12. Reinventing Metasploit 13. The Exploit Formulation Process 14. Porting Exploits 15. Testing Services with Metasploit 16. Virtual Test Grounds and Staging 17. Client-Side Exploitation 18. Metasploit Extended 19. Evasion with Metasploit 20. Metasploit for Secret Agents 21. Visualizing with Armitage 22. Tips and Tricks 1. Other Books You May Enjoy

Web application scanning using WMAP

WMAP is a powerful web application vulnerability scanner available in Kali Linux. It is integrated into the Metasploit Framework in the form of a plugin. In order to use WMAP, we first need to load and initiate the plugin within the Metasploit framework, as shown in the following screenshot:

Once the wmap plugin is loaded into the Metasploit Framework, the next step is to create a new site or workspace for our scan. Once the site has been created, we need to add the target URL to be scanned, as shown in the following screenshot:

Now that we have created a new site and defined our target, we need to check which WMAP modules would be applicable against our target. For example, if our target is not SSL-enabled, then there's no point in running SSL-related tests against this. This can be done using the wmap_run -t command, as shown in the...

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