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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 2. Information Gathering and Scanning FREE CHAPTER 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

The getdesktop and keystroke sniffing


In this recipe, we will deal with some of the stdapi user interface commands associated with desktops and keystroke sniffing. Capturing the keystrokes depends on the current active desktop, so it is essential to understand how we can sniff different keystrokes by switching between processes running in different desktop active sessions. Let us move ahead with the recipe to understand this deeply.

How to do it...

Let us start with executing some of the user interface commands which we will primarily deal with in this recipe. They are as follows:

  • enumdesktops: This command will list all the accessible desktops and window stations.

    meterpreter > enumdesktops
    
    Enumerating all accessible desktops
    
    Desktops
    ========
    
        Session  Station   Name
        -------  -------   ----
        0        WinSta0   Default
        0        WinSta0   Disconnect
        0        WinSta0   Winlogon
        0        SAWinSta  SADesktop
    

    Here you can see that all the available desktop stations...

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