Metasploit

Metasploit has in-built options that you can use to generate reports to summarize all your activities and findings. In this chapter, we will discuss how you can generate reports in…

In this chapter, we will see how to export data which, in a way, is a backup of your projects. Later on, you can import this backup to another Metasploit…

Social engineering can be broadly defined as a process of extracting sensitive information (such as usernames and passwords) by trick. Hackers sometimes use fake websites and phishing attacks for this…

MetaModules are complex and automated security tasks, designed to help security departments to do their job more efficiently, like testing firewall ports which are open and closed, testing default credentials,…

In this chapter, we will discuss how to maintain access in a system that we have gained access to. It is important because if we don’t maintain access, then we…

Pivoting is a technique that Metasploit uses to route the traffic from a hacked computer toward other networks that are not accessible by a hacker machine. Let’s take a scenario…

In a brute-force attack, the hacker uses all possible combinations of letters, numbers, special characters, and small and capital letters in an automated way to gain access over a host…

After gaining access to a machine, it is important to take all the sensitive information such as usernames and passwords. You can perform this operation for auditing purpose as well,…

Payload, in simple terms, are simple scripts that the hackers utilize to interact with a hacked system. Using payloads, they can transfer data to a victim system. Metasploit payloads can…

After vulnerability scanning and vulnerability validation, we have to run and test some scripts (called exploits) in order to gain access to a machine and do what we are planning to…