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Mastering Metasploit

You're reading from   Mastering Metasploit Exploit systems, cover your tracks, and bypass security controls with the Metasploit 5.0 framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838980078
Length 502 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1 – Preparation and Development
2. Chapter 1: Approaching a Penetration Test Using Metasploit FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Reinventing Metasploit 4. Chapter 3: The Exploit Formulation Process 5. Chapter 4: Porting Exploits 6. Section 2 – The Attack Phase
7. Chapter 5: Testing Services with Metasploit 8. Chapter 6: Virtual Test Grounds and Staging 9. Chapter 7: Client-Side Exploitation 10. Section 3 – Post-Exploitation and Evasion
11. Chapter 8: Metasploit Extended 12. Chapter 9: Evasion with Metasploit 13. Chapter 10: Metasploit for Secret Agents 14. Chapter 11: Visualizing Metasploit 15. Chapter 12: Tips and Tricks 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Advanced Windows post-exploitation modules

Metasploit offers 250 plus post-exploitation modules; however, we will only cover a few interesting ones and will leave the rest for you to cover as an exercise.

Gathering wireless SSIDs with Metasploit

Wireless networks around the target system can be discovered efficiently using the wlan_bss_list module. This module allows us to fingerprint the location and other necessary information about the Wi-Fi networks around the target. We can issue the run post/windows/wlan/wlan_bss_list command to do this, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 8.31 – Harvesting nearby Wi-Fi networks using the wlan_bss_list post-exploitation module

Let's also see how we can gather stored wireless passwords with Metasploit.

Gathering Wi-Fi passwords with Metasploit

Similar to the preceding module, we have the wlan_profile module, which collects all saved credentials for the Wi-Fi from the target system...

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