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Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook

You're reading from   Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook Over 70 recipes to master the most widely used penetration testing framework with this book and ebook.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849517423
Length 268 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Abhinav Singh Abhinav Singh
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Metasploit Quick Tips for Security Professionals 2. Information Gathering and Scanning FREE CHAPTER 3. Operating System-based Vulnerability Assessment and Exploitation 4. Client-side Exploitation and Antivirus Bypass 5. Using Meterpreter to Explore the Compromised Target 6. Advanced Meterpreter Scripting 7. Working with Modules for Penetration Testing 8. Working with Exploits 9. Working with Armitage 10. Social Engineer Toolkit Index

Binding a shell to the target for remote access


In the previous recipe, we analyzed how to exploit a Windows SP2 machine and add a new user account. But the connection was terminated immediately after the execution of exploit. In this recipe, we will move a step ahead and bind a shell to the target so that we can set up a remote connectivity with the target and gain control over it. The process is similar to the one mentioned in the previous recipe. All we have to do is use a different payload that can start a shell for us on the target machine.

Getting ready

We will again start off by launching our msfconsole and our target is the same as in the Penetration testing on a Windows XP SP2 machine recipe. We will use the same dcom vulnerability and then use a different payload this time to bind a shell to the target.

How to do it...

To bind a shell to the target, follow these steps:

  1. We will begin by selecting the dcom exploit against our target machine. We will set up the various exploit parameters...

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