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Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester

You're reading from   Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester Build your defense against complex attacks

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Product type Course
Published in Dec 2017
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ISBN-13 9781788624596
Length 860 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nipun Jaswal Nipun Jaswal
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Nipun Jaswal
Sagar Rahalkar Sagar Rahalkar
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Table of Contents (35) Chapters Close

Title Page
Credits
Preface
1. Module 1 2. Introduction to Metasploit and Supporting Tools FREE CHAPTER 3. Setting up Your Environment 4. Metasploit Components and Environment Configuration 5. Information Gathering with Metasploit 6. Vulnerability Hunting with Metasploit 7. Client-side Attacks with Metasploit 8. Web Application Scanning with Metasploit 9. Antivirus Evasion and Anti-Forensics 10. Cyber Attack Management with Armitage 11. Extending Metasploit and Exploit Development 12. Module 2 13. Approaching a Penetration Test Using Metasploit 14. Reinventing Metasploit 15. The Exploit Formulation Process 16. Porting Exploits 17. Testing Services with Metasploit 18. Virtual Test Grounds and Staging 19. Client-side Exploitation 20. Metasploit Extended 21. Speeding up Penetration Testing 22. Visualizing with Armitage 23. Module 3 24. Getting Started with Metasploit 25. Identifying and Scanning Targets 26. Exploitation and Gaining Access 27. Post-Exploitation with Metasploit 28. Testing Services with Metasploit 29. Fast-Paced Exploitation with Metasploit 30. Exploiting Real-World Challenges with Metasploit 31. Bibliography
32. Thanks page

Breakthrough meterpreter scripting


The meterpreter shell is the most desired type of access an attacker will like to have on the target. Meterpreter gives the attacker a large set of tools to perform a variety of tasks on the compromised system. Meterpreter has many built-in scripts, which makes it easier for an attacker to attack the system. These scripts perform simple and tedious tasks on the compromised system. In this section, we will look at those scripts, what they are made of, and how we can leverage them in meterpreter.

Essentials of meterpreter scripting

As far as we have seen, we have used meterpreter in situations where we needed to perform some additional tasks on the system. However, now we will look at some of the advanced situations that may arise during a penetration test, where the scripts already present in meterpreter...

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