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You're reading from Mastering Metasploit With this tutorial you can improve your Metasploit skills and learn to put your network's defenses to the ultimate test. The step-by-step approach teaches you the techniques and languages needed to become an expert.

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2014

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781782162223

Length 378 pages

Edition Edition

Tools

Metasploit

Concepts

Penetration Testing

Author (1):

Nipun Jaswal

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Mastering Metasploit

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Approaching a Penetration Test Using Metasploit FREE CHAPTER

2. Reinventing Metasploit

3. The Exploit Formulation Process

4. Porting Exploits

5. Offstage Access to Testing Services

6. Virtual Test Grounds and Staging

7. Sophisticated Client-side Attacks

8. The Social Engineering Toolkit

9. Speeding Up Penetration Testing

10. Visualizing with Armitage

Index

Ruby – the heart of Metasploit

Ruby is indeed the heart of the Metasploit framework. However, what exactly is Ruby? According to the official website, Ruby is a simple and powerful programming language. Yokihiru Matsumoto designed it in 1995. It is further defined as a dynamic, reflective, and general-purpose object-oriented programming language with functions similar to Perl.

Note

You can download Ruby for Windows/Linux from http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/.

You can refer to an excellent resource for learning Ruby practically at http://tryruby.org/levels/1/challenges/0.

Creating your first Ruby program

Ruby is an easy-to-learn programming language. Now, let's start with the basics of Ruby. However, remember that Ruby is a vast programming language. Covering all the capabilities of Ruby will push us beyond the scope of this book. Therefore, we will only stick to the essentials that are required in designing Metasploit modules.