How about we start the fun stuff now! Having completed the setup of our tools and systems, and completed the necessary information gathering, it is now time to start acting upon the data we have collected. Our focus in this chapter will be on scanning the environment for vulnerabilities and then attempting to exploit these vulnerabilities with tools such as Metasploit. We will also explore the user side by utilizing tools called Browser Exploitation Framework (BeEF) and Social Engineering Toolkit (SET).
We will cover the following topics in this chapter:
- Vulnerability scanning tools
- Scanning techniques
- OpenVAS
- Getting started with OpenVAS
- Performing scans against the environment
- Getting started with Metasploit
- Exploiting our targets with Metasploit
- Using BeEF for browser-based exploitation
- Using SET for client-side attacks
