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Metasploit Bootcamp

You're reading from   Metasploit Bootcamp The fastest way to learn Metasploit

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
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ISBN-13 9781788297134
Length 230 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nipun Jaswal Nipun Jaswal
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Metasploit 2. Identifying and Scanning Targets FREE CHAPTER 3. Exploitation and Gaining Access 4. Post-Exploitation with Metasploit 5. Testing Services with Metasploit 6. Fast-Paced Exploitation with Metasploit 7. Exploiting Real-World Challenges with Metasploit

Metasploit and privilege escalation

In this section, we will look at using Metasploit to obtain the highest level of privileges on the target system. Most of the applications we are targeting run on user-level privileges, which provide us with general access but not access to the complete system. However, to obtain system-level access, we need to escalate privileges using vulnerabilities in the target system after gaining access to the system. Let us see how we can achieve system-level access to various types of operating system in the next sections.

Escalating privileges on Windows Server 2008

During a penetration test, we often run into situations where we have limited access, and, when running commands such as hashdump...

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