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Mastering Metasploit

You're reading from   Mastering Metasploit Exploit systems, cover your tracks, and bypass security controls with the Metasploit 5.0 framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838980078
Length 502 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1 – Preparation and Development
2. Chapter 1: Approaching a Penetration Test Using Metasploit FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Reinventing Metasploit 4. Chapter 3: The Exploit Formulation Process 5. Chapter 4: Porting Exploits 6. Section 2 – The Attack Phase
7. Chapter 5: Testing Services with Metasploit 8. Chapter 6: Virtual Test Grounds and Staging 9. Chapter 7: Client-Side Exploitation 10. Section 3 – Post-Exploitation and Evasion
11. Chapter 8: Metasploit Extended 12. Chapter 9: Evasion with Metasploit 13. Chapter 10: Metasploit for Secret Agents 14. Chapter 11: Visualizing Metasploit 15. Chapter 12: Tips and Tricks 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Kage for Meterpreter sessions

Kage is a GUI for Metasploit RCP servers that has a neat electron interface for us to control our targets. Kage allows payload generation and target interaction through sessions. As it's still pretty early days for the tool, it only allows Windows and Android target sessions for now. Upon running Kage for the first time, we are presented with a screen similar to the one shown here:

Figure 11.1 – Kage for Windows

So, how can Kage be helpful for us? Consider a scenario where you have installed Metasploit on a VPS server anonymously. To anonymize your footprints, you purchase a decent VPN service and then use Kage to connect to the target VPS server running Metasploit and receiving connections. To connect with Metasploit, the Metasploit RPC service must be running. We can run the RPC service in two ways: by either using the msfrpcd binary or within the Metasploit console itself. The msfrpcd binary presents the following...

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