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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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Table of Contents (28) Chapters Close

Title Page
Copyright About Packt Contributors Preface 1. Introduction to Metasploit and Supporting Tools FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting up Your Environment 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

Naming conventions

In a sizeable penetration test scenario, we may get a large number of system and Meterpreter shells. In such cases, it is better to name all the shells for easy identification. Consider the following scenario:

We can name a shell using theĀ -n switch, as shown in the following screenshot:

The naming seems better and easy to remember, as we can see in the preceding screenshot.

Changing the prompt and making use of database variables

How cool is it to work on your favorite penetration testing framework and have your prompt? Very easy, I would say. To have your prompt in Metasploit, all you need to do is to set a prompt variable to anything of your choice. Taking the fun apart, suppose that you tend to forget...

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