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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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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

Using AutoRunScript in Metasploit


Metasploit offers another great feature of using AutoRunScript. The AutoRunScript option can be populated by issuing the show advanced command. The AutoRunScript automates post exploitation and executes once the access to the target is gained. We can either set the AutoRunScript option manually by issuing set AutoRunScript [script-name] or in the resource script itself, which automates exploitation and post exploitation together. The AutoRunScript can also run more than one post exploitation script by making the use of the multi_script and multi_console_command modules as well. Let's take an example in which we have two scripts, one for automating the exploitation and the other for automating the post exploitation, as shown in the following screenshot:

This a small post exploitation script that automates checkvm (a module to check if the target is running on virtual environment) and migrate (a module that helps migrating from the exploited process to safer...

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