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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

Working with RailGun

RailGun sounds like a gun set on rails; however, this is not the case. It is much more powerful than that. RailGun allows you to make calls to a Windows API without the need to compile your own DLL.

It supports numerous Windows DLL files and eases the way for us to perform system-level tasks on the victim machine. Let's see how we can perform various tasks using RailGun and conduct some advanced post-exploitation with it.

Interactive Ruby shell basics

RailGun requires the irb shell to be loaded into meterpreter. Let's look at how we can jump to the irb shell from meterpreter:

Interactive Ruby shell basics

We can see in the preceding screenshot that simply typing in irb from meterpreter drops us into the Ruby-interactive shell. We can perform a variety of tasks with the Ruby shell from here.

Understanding RailGun and its scripting

RailGun gives us immense power to perform tasks that Metasploit may not perform. We can raise exceptions to any DLL file from the breached system and create some...

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