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Metasploit 5.0 for Beginners

You're reading from   Metasploit 5.0 for Beginners Perform penetration testing to secure your IT environment against threats and vulnerabilities

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2020
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ISBN-13 9781838982669
Length 246 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Sagar Rahalkar Sagar Rahalkar
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction and Environment Setup
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Metasploit and Supporting Tools FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Environment 4. Chapter 3: Metasploit Components and Environment Configuration 5. Section 2: Practical Metasploit
6. Chapter 4: Information Gathering with Metasploit 7. Chapter 5: Vulnerability Hunting with Metasploit 8. Chapter 6: Client-Side Attacks with Metasploit 9. Chapter 7: Web Application Scanning with Metasploit 10. Chapter 8: Antivirus Evasion and Anti-Forensics 11. Chapter 9: Cyber Attack Management with Armitage 12. Chapter 10: Extending Metasploit and Exploit Development 13. Chapter 11: Case Studies 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introduction to msf utilities

The Metasploit Framework comes with a couple of useful tools in addition to the usual exploits and payloads that we have seen so far. These tools can be run outside of the Metasploit Framework. Currently, the Metasploit Framework has tools in various categories, as in the following screenshot.

Simply open up the terminal and browse to the path /usr/share/metasploit-framework/tools.

As seen in the following screenshot, currently the msf utilities are categorized in nine categories:

Figure 5.20 – 'msfutilities' categories

Figure 5.20 – 'msfutilities' categories

We'll now learn about these utilities, starting with: msf-exe2vbs.

msf-exe2vbs

The payloads generated in .exe format usually get detected easily by antivirus programs. The msf-exe2vbs utility allows us to convert an executable payload into VBScript format. To use this utility, simply open up the terminal and type msf-exe2vbs. This utility requires two arguments to execute...

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