Summary

In this chapter, we started by familiarizing ourselves with the structure of the Metasploit framework. We then looked at how to perform both footprinting and vulnerability analyses on our targets with Nmap and Metasploit. We then ended the chapter by exploring how to use the information we gathered during footprinting to successfully exploit a Windows and Linux host through the operating system and service vulnerabilities.

Now that we have learned how to establish our initial foothold on the system, we can learn how to perform local system enumeration.

In the next chapter, we will discover the various tools and techniques that we can use to enumerate information from our target systems and explore how to use this information to stage a privilege escalation attack.