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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

Sharing information with the Dradis framework


In our previous recipes, we learned several techniques for gaining information about our target. While performing penetration tests, we may need to share information with other pen-testers which may be located at other physical locations. In that case, sharing the penetration testing information can be made easier by using the Dradis framework. It is an open source framework for sharing information during security assessments. It has several features which makes it an excellent information-sharing tool. Some of them are:

  • Communicating over SSL

  • Attachment of files and notes

  • Import scan results from Nessus, NeXpose, and so on

  • Can be extended to connect with external systems like a vulnerability database

Although it will not help us in gaining any information about the target, the tool is important for all security professionals in sharing pen-test results and findings.

Getting ready

To launch the Dradis framework in BackTrack, we will have to execute...

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Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook
Published in: Jun 2012
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781849517423
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