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Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook

Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook

By : Teixeira, Nipun Jaswal, Singh, Agarwal
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Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook

Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook

3.8 (5)
By: Teixeira, Nipun Jaswal, Singh, Agarwal

Overview of this book

Metasploit is the world's leading penetration testing tool and helps security and IT professionals find, exploit, and validate vulnerabilities. Metasploit allows penetration testing automation, password auditing, web application scanning, social engineering, post exploitation, evidence collection, and reporting. Metasploit's integration with InsightVM (or Nexpose), Nessus, OpenVas, and other vulnerability scanners provides a validation solution that simplifies vulnerability prioritization and remediation reporting. Teams can collaborate in Metasploit and present their findings in consolidated reports. In this book, you will go through great recipes that will allow you to start using Metasploit effectively. With an ever increasing level of complexity, and covering everything from the fundamentals to more advanced features in Metasploit, this book is not just for beginners but also for professionals keen to master this awesome tool. You will begin by building your lab environment, setting up Metasploit, and learning how to perform intelligence gathering, threat modeling, vulnerability analysis, exploitation, and post exploitation—all inside Metasploit. You will learn how to create and customize payloads to evade anti-virus software and bypass an organization's defenses, exploit server vulnerabilities, attack client systems, compromise mobile phones, automate post exploitation, install backdoors, run keyloggers, highjack webcams, port public exploits to the framework, create your own modules, and much more.
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Creating  workspaces

Workspaces in Metasploit are used to separate datasets, allowing you to stay organized. It is a good idea to create a new workspace to organize all your collected data before starting a new penetration test, thereby avoiding contamination by previous tests.

How to do it...

  1. The default workspace is selected when connecting to the database, which is represented by the * character before its name:
msf > workspace 
* default
  1. To display the usage for the workspace command, use the -h option as follows:
msf > workspace -h
Usage:
workspace List workspaces
workspace -v List workspaces verbosely
workspace [name] Switch workspace
workspace -a [name] ... Add workspace(s)
workspace -d [name] ... Delete workspace(s)
workspace -D Delete all workspaces
workspace -r <old> <new> Rename workspace
workspace -h Show this help information
  1. To add a new workspace, use the -a option followed by the name of the workspace:
msf > workspace -a book
[*] Added workspace: book
  1. To list the available workspaces, simply type the workspace command:
msf > workspace 
default
* book
  1. To delete a workspace, use the -d option followed by the name of the workspace:
msf > workspace -d book 
[*] Deleted workspace: book
[*] Switched workspace: default
  1. To change the current workspace, use the workspace command followed by the name of the workspace you want to change to:
msf > workspace book 
[*] Workspace: book
  1. To rename a workspace, use the workspace command with the -r option followed by the old workspace name and the new workspace name:
msf > workspace -r book metasploit
[*] Switched workspace: metasploit

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