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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

Building a "Windows Firewall De-activator" meterpreter script


So far we have used several meterpreter scripts such as killav.rb and persistence.rb. Let's start discussing about developing our own meterpreter script. Ruby knowledge is essential for writing any module in Metasploit. You should have basic understanding of Ruby. There is not enough documentation available to learn directly about meterpreter scripting. The simplest and best practice is to learn Ruby language and side by side keep looking at the codes of various available modules. You can also read the Metasploit developer guide to understand about the different libraries provided by the framework which you can use while writing your own modules. The documentation can be found at http://dev.metasploit.com/redmine/projects/framework/wiki/DeveloperGuide.

The script we will develop here is a Windows Vista/7 firewall de-activator script. It will make use of the Windows command called netsh and meterpreter will execute the command on...

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