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Mastering Metasploit

You're reading from   Mastering Metasploit Take your penetration testing and IT security skills to a whole new level with the secrets of Metasploit

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788990615
Length 492 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Nipun Jaswal Nipun Jaswal
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Preface 1. Approaching a Penetration Test Using Metasploit 2. Reinventing Metasploit FREE CHAPTER 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. Evasion with Metasploit 10. Metasploit for Secret Agents 11. Visualizing with Armitage 12. Tips and Tricks 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Maintaining anonymity in Meterpreter sessions

As a law enforcement agent, it is advisable that you maintain anonymity throughout your command and control sessions. However, most law enforcement agencies use VPS servers for their command and control software, which is good since they introduce proxy tunnels within their endpoints. It is also another reason that law enforcement agents may not use Metasploit since it is trivial to add proxies between you and your targets.

Let's see how we can circumvent such situations and make Metasploit not only usable but a favorable choice for law enforcement. Consider the following scenario:

We can see that we have three public IPs in the plot. Our target is on 106.215.26.19, and our Metasploit instance is running on 185.91.2xx.xxx on port 8443. We can leverage the power of Metasploit here by generating a reverse HTTPS payload which offers...

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