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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

Understanding Metasploit modules

Let's dig deeper into the process of writing a module. Metasploit has various modules, such as payloads, encoders, exploits, NOP generators, auxiliaries, and the latest additions, which are the evasion modules. In this section, we will cover the essentials of developing a module; then, we will look at how we can create our custom modules. We will discuss the development of auxiliary and post-exploitation modules. Additionally, we will cover core exploit modules in the next chapter. However, for this chapter, let's examine the essentials of module building in detail.

Metasploit module building in a nutshell

Before diving deep into building modules, let's understand how components are arranged in the Metasploit Framework, and what they do.

The architecture of the Metasploit Framework

Metasploit contains various components, such as necessary libraries, modules, plugins, and tools. A diagrammatic view of the structure of Metasploit...

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