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Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook

You're reading from   Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook Over 70 recipes to master the most widely used penetration testing framework with this book and ebook.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849517423
Length 268 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Abhinav Singh Abhinav Singh
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Metasploit Quick Tips for Security Professionals FREE CHAPTER 2. Information Gathering and Scanning 3. Operating System-based Vulnerability Assessment and Exploitation 4. Client-side Exploitation and Antivirus Bypass 5. Using Meterpreter to Explore the Compromised Target 6. Advanced Meterpreter Scripting 7. Working with Modules for Penetration Testing 8. Working with Exploits 9. Working with Armitage 10. Social Engineer Toolkit Index

Target service scanning with auxiliary modules


Let us now try out some targeted scanning for specific services running on a range of IP addresses, or on a single target host. Various service-based scans are available; VNC, FTP, SMB, and so on. Auxiliary modules can be really handy in such situations when we are looking for specific types of services on our target.

Getting ready

Let us find out what service-based scanning auxiliary modules are available to us. We can navigate through the following path:

	
root@bt:/pentest/exploits/framework3/modules/auxiliary/scanner# ls
	
backdoor   emc 	ip    	mysql	pop3   	sap   ssh    	vnc
db2    	finger  lotus 	netbios  portscan   sip   telephony voice
dcerpc 	ftp 	misc  	nfs  	postgres   smb   telnet 	vxworks
dect   	http	motorola  ntp  	rogue  	smtp  tftp   	x11
discovery  imap	mssql 	oracle   rservices  snmp  upnp

As we can see, there are lots of options for service scan modules which can be very handy during penetration testing. Let us quickly work...

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