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Metasploit for Beginners

You're reading from   Metasploit for Beginners Create a threat-free environment with the best-in-class tool

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788295970
Length 190 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sagar Rahalkar Sagar Rahalkar
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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

Browser Autopwn

Another interesting auxiliary module for performing client-side attacks is the browser_autopwn. This auxiliary module works in the following sequence:

  1. The attacker executes the browser_autopwn auxiliary module.
  2. A web server is initiated (on the attacker's system), which hosts a payload. The payload is accessible over a specific URL.
  3. The attacker sends the specially generated URL to his victim.
  4. The victim tries to open the URL, which is when the payload gets downloaded on his system.
  5. If the victim's browser is vulnerable, the exploit is successful and the attacker gets a meterpreter shell.

From the msfconsole, select the browser_autopwn module using the use auxiliary/server/browser_autopwn ;command as shown in the following screenshot. Then, configure the value of the LHOST variable and run the auxiliary module:

Running the auxiliary module will create...

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