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Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook. - Third Edition

You're reading from Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook. - Third Edition

Product type Book

Published in Feb 2018

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ISBN-13 9781788623179

Pages 426 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

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Web Penetration Testing

Authors (4):

Nipun Jaswal

Daniel Teixeira

Abhinav Singh

Monika Agarwal

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Contributors

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Preface

1. Metasploit Quick Tips for Security Professionals

2. Information Gathering and Scanning

3. Server-Side Exploitation

4. Meterpreter

5. Post-Exploitation

6. Using MSFvenom

7. Client-Side Exploitation and Antivirus Bypass

8. Social-Engineer Toolkit

9. Working with Modules for Penetration Testing

10. Exploring Exploits

11. Wireless Network Penetration Testing

12. Cloud Penetration Testing

13. Best Practices

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Index

Working with auxiliary modules

We have already seen some auxiliary modules back in Chapter 2, Information Gathering and Scanning, so in this recipe we will focus on some of the most used and helpful auxiliary modules.

Getting ready

To list available auxiliary modules, we can use the show auxiliary command within msfconsole:

With almost 1,000 auxiliary modules, Metasploit is probably one of the most complete penetration frameworks out there.

How to do it...

We will start with one of the most useful HTTP auxiliary modules, the HTTP Directory Scanner. This module identifies the existence of interesting directories in a given directory path. By default, it uses the wmap_dirs.txt word dictionary but you can specify your own; to run the module we need to set the target IP address, range, or CIDR identifier.

In this example, I used the IP address of the Metasploitable 2 target machine:

msf > use auxiliary/scanner/http/dir_scanner
msf auxiliary(scanner/http/dir_scanner) > set RHOSTS 192.168.216.129...

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Authors (4)

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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Daniel Teixeira

Daniel Teixeira is an IT security expert, author, and trainer, specializing in red team engagements, penetration testing, and vulnerability assessments. His main areas of focus are adversary simulation, emulation of modern adversarial tactics, techniques and procedures; vulnerability research, and exploit development.

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Abhinav Singh

Abhinav Singh is a well-known information security researcher. He is the author of Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook (first and second editions) and Instant Wireshark Starter, by Packt. He is an active contributor to the security community—paper publications, articles, and blogs. His work has been quoted in several security and privacy magazines, and digital portals. He is a frequent speaker at eminent international conferences—Black Hat and RSA. His areas of expertise include malware research, reverse engineering, and cloud security.

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Monika Agarwal

Monika Agarwal is a young Information Security Researcher from India. She has presented many research papers at both national and international conferences. She is a member of IAENG (International Association of Engineers). Her main areas of interest are ethical hacking and ad hoc networking.

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