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Mastering Metasploit

You're reading from Mastering Metasploit Discover the next level of network defense with the Metasploit framework

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786463166

Length 440 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Metasploit

Concepts

Penetration Testing

Author (1):

Nipun Jaswal

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. Approaching a Penetration Test Using Metasploit FREE CHAPTER

2. Reinventing Metasploit

3. The Exploit Formulation Process

4. Porting Exploits

5. Testing Services with Metasploit

6. Virtual Test Grounds and Staging

7. Client-side Exploitation

8. Metasploit Extended

9. Speeding up Penetration Testing

10. Visualizing with Armitage

Chapter 4. Porting Exploits

"Hacking is not the desire in breaking things. It's the desire becoming a smart-ass in things you know nothing about - so others don't have to" - Youssef Rebahi Gilbert, cyber security expert

In the previous chapter, we discussed how to write exploits in Metasploit. However, we do not need to create an exploit for particular software in cases where a public exploit is already available. A publically available exploit may be in a different programming language, such as Perl, Python, C or others. Let us now discover strategies of porting exploits to the Metasploit framework from a variety of different programming languages. This mechanism enables us to transform existing exploits into Metasploit-compatible exploits, thus saving time and giving us the ability to switch payloads on the fly. By the end of this chapter, we will have learned about the following topics:

Porting exploits from various programming languages
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Authors (1)

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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