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Metasploit 5.0 for Beginners

You're reading from   Metasploit 5.0 for Beginners Perform penetration testing to secure your IT environment against threats and vulnerabilities

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2020
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ISBN-13 9781838982669
Length 246 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Sagar Rahalkar Sagar Rahalkar
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction and Environment Setup
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Metasploit and Supporting Tools FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Environment 4. Chapter 3: Metasploit Components and Environment Configuration 5. Section 2: Practical Metasploit
6. Chapter 4: Information Gathering with Metasploit 7. Chapter 5: Vulnerability Hunting with Metasploit 8. Chapter 6: Client-Side Attacks with Metasploit 9. Chapter 7: Web Application Scanning with Metasploit 10. Chapter 8: Antivirus Evasion and Anti-Forensics 11. Chapter 9: Cyber Attack Management with Armitage 12. Chapter 10: Extending Metasploit and Exploit Development 13. Chapter 11: Case Studies 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Setting up a vulnerable web application

Before we start exploring the web application scanning features offered by the Metasploit Framework, we need to set up a test application environment in which we can fire our tests. As discussed in the previous chapters, Metasploitable 2 is a Linux distribution that is deliberately made vulnerable. It also contains web applications that are intentionally made vulnerable, and we can leverage this to practice using Metasploit's web scanning modules.

Metasploitable 2 contains two vulnerable web applications that we can use as targets: Multidae and Damn Vulnerable Web Application (DVWA).

In order to get the vulnerable test applications up and running, simply boot up Metasploitable 2 and access it remotely from any of the web browsers, as in the following screenshot:

Figure 7.1 – Metasploitable 2 web page

The Multidae vulnerable application can be opened for further tests by browsing to Metasploitable 2...

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