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Mastering Metasploit

You're reading from   Mastering Metasploit Discover the next level of network defense with the Metasploit framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463166
Length 440 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Nipun Jaswal Nipun Jaswal
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Approaching a Penetration Test Using Metasploit FREE CHAPTER 2. Reinventing Metasploit 3. The Exploit Formulation Process 4. Porting Exploits 5. Testing Services with Metasploit 6. Virtual Test Grounds and Staging 7. Client-side Exploitation 8. Metasploit Extended 9. Speeding up Penetration Testing 10. Visualizing with Armitage

Chapter 4. Porting Exploits

"Hacking is not the desire in breaking things. It's the desire becoming a smart-ass in things you know nothing about - so others don't have to" - Youssef Rebahi Gilbert, cyber security expert

In the previous chapter, we discussed how to write exploits in Metasploit. However, we do not need to create an exploit for particular software in cases where a public exploit is already available. A publically available exploit may be in a different programming language, such as Perl, Python, C or others. Let us now discover strategies of porting exploits to the Metasploit framework from a variety of different programming languages. This mechanism enables us to transform existing exploits into Metasploit-compatible exploits, thus saving time and giving us the ability to switch payloads on the fly. By the end of this chapter, we will have learned about the following topics:

  • Porting exploits from various programming languages
  • Discovering essentials...
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