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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

Meterpreter API and mixins


In the past one and a half chapters, we have learned extensively about using meterpreter as a potential post exploitation tool. You might have realized the important role of meterpreter to make our penetration task easier and faster. Now, from this recipe, we will move ahead and discuss some advanced concepts related to meterpreter. We will dive deeper into the core of Metasploit to understand how meterpreter scripts function and how we can build our own scripts.

From a penetration tester's point of view it is very essential to know how to implement our own scripting techniques so as to fulfill the needs of the scenario. There can be situations when you have to perform tasks where the meterpreter may not be enough to solve your task. So you can't sit back. This is where developing our own scripts and modules become handy. So let us start with the recipe. In this recipe, we will discuss about meterpreter API and some important mixins, and then in later recipes, we...

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