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Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester

You're reading from   Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester Build your defense against complex attacks

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Product type Course
Published in Dec 2017
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ISBN-13 9781788624596
Length 860 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nipun Jaswal Nipun Jaswal
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Sagar Rahalkar Sagar Rahalkar
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Table of Contents (35) Chapters Close

Title Page
Credits
Preface
1. Module 1 FREE CHAPTER 2. Introduction to Metasploit and Supporting Tools 3. Setting up Your Environment 4. Metasploit Components and Environment Configuration 5. Information Gathering with Metasploit 6. Vulnerability Hunting with Metasploit 7. Client-side Attacks with Metasploit 8. Web Application Scanning with Metasploit 9. Antivirus Evasion and Anti-Forensics 10. Cyber Attack Management with Armitage 11. Extending Metasploit and Exploit Development 12. Module 2 13. Approaching a Penetration Test Using Metasploit 14. Reinventing Metasploit 15. The Exploit Formulation Process 16. Porting Exploits 17. Testing Services with Metasploit 18. Virtual Test Grounds and Staging 19. Client-side Exploitation 20. Metasploit Extended 21. Speeding up Penetration Testing 22. Visualizing with Armitage 23. Module 3 24. Getting Started with Metasploit 25. Identifying and Scanning Targets 26. Exploitation and Gaining Access 27. Post-Exploitation with Metasploit 28. Testing Services with Metasploit 29. Fast-Paced Exploitation with Metasploit 30. Exploiting Real-World Challenges with Metasploit 31. Bibliography
32. Thanks page

Variables in Metasploit


For most exploits that we use within the Metasploit Framework, we need to set values to some of the variables. The following are some of the common and most important variables in the Metasploit Framework:

Variable name

Variable description

LHOST

Local Host: This variable contains the IP address of the attacker's system that is the IP address of the system from where we are initiating the exploit.

LPORT

Local Port: This variable contains the (local) port number of the attacker's system. This is typically needed when we are expecting our exploit to give us reverse shell.

RHOST

Remote Host: This variable contains the IP address of our target system.

RPORT

Remote Port: This variable contains the port number on the target system that we will attack/exploit. For example, for exploiting an FTP vulnerability on a remote target system, RPORT will be set to 21.

  • The get command: The get command is used to retrieve the value contained in a particular local variable within the Metasploit...
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