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Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester

You're reading from Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester Build your defense against complex attacks

Product type Course

Published in Dec 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788624596

Length 860 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Metasploit

Concepts

Penetration Testing

Authors (2):

Nipun Jaswal

Sagar Rahalkar

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Table of Contents (35) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

Preface

1. Module 1 FREE CHAPTER

Metasploit for Beginners

2. Introduction to Metasploit and Supporting Tools

3. Setting up Your Environment

4. Metasploit Components and Environment Configuration

5. Information Gathering with Metasploit

6. Vulnerability Hunting with Metasploit

7. Client-side Attacks with Metasploit

8. Web Application Scanning with Metasploit

9. Antivirus Evasion and Anti-Forensics

10. Cyber Attack Management with Armitage

11. Extending Metasploit and Exploit Development

12. Module 2

Mastering Metasploit

13. Approaching a Penetration Test Using Metasploit

14. Reinventing Metasploit

15. The Exploit Formulation Process

16. Porting Exploits

17. Testing Services with Metasploit

18. Virtual Test Grounds and Staging

19. Client-side Exploitation

20. Metasploit Extended

21. Speeding up Penetration Testing

22. Visualizing with Armitage

23. Module 3

Metasploit Bootcamp

24. Getting Started with Metasploit

25. Identifying and Scanning Targets

26. Exploitation and Gaining Access

27. Post-Exploitation with Metasploit

28. Testing Services with Metasploit

29. Fast-Paced Exploitation with Metasploit

30. Exploiting Real-World Challenges with Metasploit

31. Bibliography

32. Thanks page

Chapter 3. Setting up Your Environment

In the preceding chapter, you got familiarized with vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and the Metasploit Framework in brief. Now, let's get practically started with Metasploit by learning how to install and set up the framework on various platforms along with setting up a dedicated virtual test environment. In this chapter, you will learn about the following topics:

Using the Kali Linux virtual machine to instantly get started with Metasploit and supporting tools
Installing the Metasploit Framework on Windows and Linux platforms
Setting up exploitable targets in a virtual environment

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Authors (2)

Nipun Jaswal

Nipun Jaswal

Nipun Jaswal is an international cybersecurity author and an award-winning IT security researcher with more than a decade of experience in penetration testing, Red Team assessments, vulnerability research, RF, and wireless hacking. He is presently the Director of Cybersecurity Practices at BDO India. Nipun has trained and worked with multiple law enforcement agencies on vulnerability research and exploit development. He has also authored numerous articles and exploits that can be found on popular security databases, such as PacketStorm and exploit-db. Please feel free to contact him at @nipunjaswal.

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Sagar Rahalkar

Sagar Rahalkar

Sagar Rahalkar is a seasoned information security professional having more than 10 years of comprehensive experience in various verticals of IS. His domain expertise is mainly into breach detection, cyber crime investigations, digital forensics, application security, vulnerability assessment and penetration testing, compliance for mandates and regulations, IT GRC, and much more. He holds a masters degree in computer science and several industry-recognized certifications such as Certified Cyber Crime Investigator, Certified Ethical Hacker, Certified Security Analyst, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, IBM certified Specialist-Rational AppScan, Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), and PRINCE2. He has been closely associated with Indian law enforcement agencies for more than 3 years dealing with digital crime investigations and related training and received several awards and appreciations from senior officials of the police and defense organizations in India. Sagar has also been a reviewer and author for various books and online publications.

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