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Hands-On Penetration Testing with Python

You're reading from   Hands-On Penetration Testing with Python Enhance your ethical hacking skills to build automated and intelligent systems

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788990820
Length 502 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Furqan Khan Furqan Khan
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Preface 1. Introduction to Python 2. Building Python Scripts FREE CHAPTER 3. Concept Handling 4. Advanced Python Modules 5. Vulnerability Scanner Python - Part 1 6. Vulnerability Scanner Python - Part 2 7. Machine Learning and Cybersecurity 8. Automating Web Application Scanning - Part 1 9. Automated Web Application Scanning - Part 2 10. Building a Custom Crawler 11. Reverse Engineering Linux Applications 12. Reverse Engineering Windows Applications 13. Exploit Development 14. Cyber Threat Intelligence 15. Other Wonders of Python 16. Assessments 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Developing a Metasploit module to exploit a network service

In this section, we will see how to make a Metasploit exploit module to exploit a given vulnerability. In this case, we will focus on a buffer overflow vulnerability of a gaming application called Crossfire. For us to write custom Metasploit modules, we need to place them in a specific directory, because when we use the use exploit /.... command in Metasploit, by default, the framework looks for the available modules in the default Metasploit exploits directory. If it doesn't find the given exploit there, it then searches the extended modules directory, which is located at the following path: /root/msf4/modules/exploits. Let's create the path and a custom directory. We'll turn our Kali VM on and run the following commands:

mkdir -p ~/.msf4/modules/exploits/custom/cf
cd ~/.msf4/modules/exploits/custom/cf
touch...
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