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Mastering Metasploit

You're reading from   Mastering Metasploit Take your penetration testing and IT security skills to a whole new level with the secrets of Metasploit

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788990615
Length 492 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Nipun Jaswal Nipun Jaswal
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Preface 1. Approaching a Penetration Test Using Metasploit 2. Reinventing Metasploit FREE CHAPTER 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. Evasion with Metasploit 10. Metasploit for Secret Agents 11. Visualizing with Armitage 12. Tips and Tricks 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Covering tracks with anti-forensics modules

Metasploit does provide a good number of features to cover tracks. However, from a forensics standpoint, they still might lack some core areas which may reveal activities and useful information about the attack. There are many modules on the internet that tend to provide custom functionalities. Some of them do make it to the core Metasploit repos while some go unnoticed. The module we are about to discuss is an anti-forensics module offering a ton of features such as clearing event logs, clearing log files, and manipulating registries, .lnk files, .tmp, .log, browser history, Prefetch Files (.pf), RecentDocs, ShellBags, Temp/Recent folders, and also restore points. Pedro Nobrega, the author of this module, has worked extensively on identifying the forensic artifacts and created this module, keeping forensic analysis in mind. We can get...

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