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Mastering Metasploit

Mastering Metasploit

By : Nipun Jaswal
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Mastering Metasploit

Mastering Metasploit

3.5 (4)
By: Nipun Jaswal

Overview of this book

Updated for the latest version of Metasploit, this book will prepare you to face everyday cyberattacks by simulating real-world scenarios. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples, Mastering Metasploit will help you gain insights into programming Metasploit modules and carrying out exploitation, as well as building and porting various kinds of exploits in Metasploit. Giving you the ability to perform tests on different services, including databases, IoT, and mobile, this Metasploit book will help you get to grips with real-world, sophisticated scenarios where performing penetration tests is a challenge. You'll then learn a variety of methods and techniques to evade security controls deployed at a target's endpoint. As you advance, you’ll script automated attacks using CORTANA and Armitage to aid penetration testing by developing virtual bots and discover how you can add custom functionalities in Armitage. Following real-world case studies, this book will take you on a journey through client-side attacks using Metasploit and various scripts built on the Metasploit 5.0 framework. By the end of the book, you’ll have developed the skills you need to work confidently with efficient exploitation techniques
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1 – Preparation and Development
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Section 2 – The Attack Phase
10
Section 3 – Post-Exploitation and Evasion

Database exploitation

Let's discuss testing database services. In this section, our primary goal is to test the databases and check for various vulnerabilities. Databases contain critical business data. Therefore, if there are any vulnerabilities in the database management system, this can lead to remote code execution or full network compromise, which can lead to the exposure of a company's confidential data. Data related to financial transactions, medical records, criminal records, products, sales, marketing, and so on can be valuable to the buyers of these databases in the underground community.

To make sure the databases are fully secure, we need to develop methodologies for testing these services against various types of attacks. Now, let's start testing databases and look at the different phases of conducting a penetration test on a database.

SQL server

Microsoft launched its database server back in 1989. Today, a significant proportion of websites run...

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