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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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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

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

Naming conventions

In a sizeable penetration test scenario, we may get a large number of system and Meterpreter shells. In such cases, it is better to name all the shells for easy identification. Consider the following scenario:

We can name a shell using the -n switch, as shown in the following screenshot:

The naming seems better and easy to remember, as we can see in the preceding screenshot.

Changing the prompt and making use of database variables

How cool is it to work on your favorite penetration testing framework and have your prompt? Very easy, I would say. To have your prompt in Metasploit, all you need to do is to set a prompt variable to anything of your choice. Taking the fun apart, suppose that you tend to forget...

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