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Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook

You're reading from   Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook Over 70 recipes to master the most widely used penetration testing framework with this book and ebook.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849517423
Length 268 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Abhinav Singh Abhinav Singh
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Metasploit Quick Tips for Security Professionals FREE CHAPTER 2. Information Gathering and Scanning 3. Operating System-based Vulnerability Assessment and Exploitation 4. Client-side Exploitation and Antivirus Bypass 5. Using Meterpreter to Explore the Compromised Target 6. Advanced Meterpreter Scripting 7. Working with Modules for Penetration Testing 8. Working with Exploits 9. Working with Armitage 10. Social Engineer Toolkit Index

Scanning with NeXpose


In the previous recipe, we discussed Nessus as a potential vulnerability scanner. In this recipe, we will cover another important vulnerability scanner NeXpose.

NeXpose is a popular tool by Rapid7 which performs the task of vulnerability scanning and importing results to the Metasploit database. The usage of NeXpose is similar to Nessus which we learned in the previous recipe, but let's have a quick overlook of how to get started with NeXpose. I will leave the task of exploring it deeper as an assignment for you.

Getting ready

To start the NeXpose from the msf console, we will first have to connect the database to Metasploit, and then load the plugin to connect it with the NeXpose server to start the process of target scanning. Let us execute these steps in the command line.

msf > db_connect msf3:[email protected]:7175/msf3 

msf > load nexpose

msf > nexpose_connect darklord:toor@localhost ok

[*] Connecting to NeXpose instance at 127.0.0.1:3780 with username...
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