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Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook

You're reading from   Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook Evade antiviruses, bypass firewalls, and exploit complex environments with the most widely used penetration testing framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788623179
Length 426 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Monika Agarwal Monika Agarwal
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Abhinav Singh Abhinav Singh
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Nipun Jaswal Nipun Jaswal
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Daniel Teixeira Daniel Teixeira
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Metasploit Quick Tips for Security Professionals FREE CHAPTER 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 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Fuzzing with Metasploit

Fuzzing is a software testing technique that consists of finding implementation bugs using random data injection. Fuzzers generate malformed data and pass it to the particular target entity to verify its overflow capacity. Metasploit provides several fuzzing modules that can be helpful in exploit development. Let's explore more about the basics of fuzzing and how Metasploit modules can be used as potential fuzzers.

Getting ready

Before we jump to the Metasploit fuzzer modules, let's have a brief overview of fuzzing and its types.

The Metasploit Framework provides a complete set of libraries to manipulate network protocols and data that can help us develop a simple fuzzer.

Depending...

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