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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 FREE CHAPTER 2. Reinventing Metasploit 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

Importing TCP server/browser-based exploits into Metasploit

In the following section, we will see how we can import browser-based or TCP server-based exploits in Metasploit.

During an application test or a penetration test, we might encounter software that may fail to parse data from a request/response and end up crashing. Let's see an example of an application that has vulnerability when parsing data:

The application used in this example is BSplayer 2.68. We can see that we have a Python exploit listening on port 81. The vulnerability lies in parsing the remote server's response when a user tries to play a video from a URL. Let's see what happens when we try to stream content from our listener on port 81:

We can see the calculator application popping up, which denotes that the exploit is working successfully.

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