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Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester

You're reading from   Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester Build your defense against complex attacks

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Product type Course
Published in Dec 2017
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ISBN-13 9781788624596
Length 860 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nipun Jaswal Nipun Jaswal
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Nipun Jaswal
Sagar Rahalkar Sagar Rahalkar
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Table of Contents (35) Chapters Close

Title Page
Credits
Preface
1. Module 1 FREE CHAPTER 2. Introduction to Metasploit and Supporting Tools 3. Setting up Your Environment 4. Metasploit Components and Environment Configuration 5. Information Gathering with Metasploit 6. Vulnerability Hunting with Metasploit 7. Client-side Attacks with Metasploit 8. Web Application Scanning with Metasploit 9. Antivirus Evasion and Anti-Forensics 10. Cyber Attack Management with Armitage 11. Extending Metasploit and Exploit Development 12. Module 2 13. Approaching a Penetration Test Using Metasploit 14. Reinventing Metasploit 15. The Exploit Formulation Process 16. Porting Exploits 17. Testing Services with Metasploit 18. Virtual Test Grounds and Staging 19. Client-side Exploitation 20. Metasploit Extended 21. Speeding up Penetration Testing 22. Visualizing with Armitage 23. Module 3 24. Getting Started with Metasploit 25. Identifying and Scanning Targets 26. Exploitation and Gaining Access 27. Post-Exploitation with Metasploit 28. Testing Services with Metasploit 29. Fast-Paced Exploitation with Metasploit 30. Exploiting Real-World Challenges with Metasploit 31. Bibliography
32. Thanks page

Gaining persistent access with Metasploit


Gaining persistent access to the target systems is important when you are a part of a law enforcement agency. However, in a conventional penetration test, persistence may not be very practical, unless the testable environment is huge and will take many days for the test to complete. But this doesn't mean that it is not worth knowing how to maintain access to the target. In the following section, we will cover persistence techniques, which one can use to maintain access to the target system. In addition, Metasploit has depreciated the persistence and metsvc modules in meterpreter, which were used to maintain access to the target. Let's cover the new techniques for achieving persistence.

Gaining persistent access on Windows-based systems

In this example, we have already gained meterpreter access to a system running Windows Server 2012 R2. Let's move the meterpreter to the background using the background command and use the latest persistence module,...

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