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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

Metasploit and Arduino – the deadly combination

Arduino-based microcontroller boards are tiny and unusual pieces of hardware that can act as lethal weapons when it comes to penetration testing. Some Arduino boards support keyboard and mouse libraries, which means that they can serve as HID (Human Interface Device) devices:

Figure 7.18 – An Arduino device

Therefore, these little Arduino boards can stealthily perform human actions such as typing keys, moving and clicking with a mouse, and many other things. In this section, we will emulate an Arduino Pro Micro board as a keyboard to download and execute our malicious payload from a remote site. However, note that these little boards do not have enough memory to store the payload, so a download is required on the system.

The Arduino Pro Micro costs less than $4 on popular shopping sites such as https://www.aliexpress.com/. Therefore, it is much cheaper to use Arduino Pro Micro rather than Teensy...

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