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The Complete Metasploit Guide

You're reading from   The Complete Metasploit Guide Explore effective penetration testing techniques with Metasploit

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Product type Course
Published in Jun 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838822477
Length 660 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sagar Rahalkar Sagar Rahalkar
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Nipun Jaswal Nipun Jaswal
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Table of Contents (28) Chapters Close

Title Page
Copyright About Packt Contributors Preface 1. Introduction to Metasploit and Supporting Tools 2. Setting up Your Environment FREE CHAPTER 3. Metasploit Components and Environment Configuration 4. Information Gathering with Metasploit 5. Vulnerability Hunting with Metasploit 6. Client-side Attacks with Metasploit 7. Web Application Scanning with Metasploit 8. Antivirus Evasion and Anti-Forensics 9. Cyber Attack Management with Armitage 10. Extending Metasploit and Exploit Development 11. Approaching a Penetration Test Using Metasploit 12. Reinventing Metasploit 13. The Exploit Formulation Process 14. Porting Exploits 15. Testing Services with Metasploit 16. Virtual Test Grounds and Staging 17. Client-Side Exploitation 18. Metasploit Extended 19. Evasion with Metasploit 20. Metasploit for Secret Agents 21. Visualizing with Armitage 22. Tips and Tricks 1. Other Books You May Enjoy

Client-Side Exploitation

We covered coding and performed penetration tests in numerous environments in the earlier chapters; we are now ready to introduce client-side exploitation. Throughout this section and a couple more, we will learn client-side exploitation in detail.

Throughout this chapter, we will focus on the following:

  • Attacking the target's browser
  • Sophisticated attack vectors to trick the client
  • Attacking Android and using Kali NetHunter
  • Using Arduino for exploitation
  • Injecting payloads into various files

Client-side exploitation sometimes requires the victim to interact with malicious files, which makes its success dependable on the interaction. These interactions could be visiting a malicious URL or downloading and executing a file, which means we need the help of the victims to exploit their systems successfully. Therefore, the dependency on the victim is...

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