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Hands-On Penetration Testing on Windows
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Hands-On Penetration Testing on Windows

by Phil Bramwell
July 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
452 pages
11h 51m
English
Packt Publishing
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Payload generation goes solo – working with msfvenom

Back in the old days, there were separate instances of the Metasploit Framework that you could fire up from the command line for generating payloads; they were msfpayload and msfencode. Kids these days can generate payloads with the one-stop shop Metasploit Framework instance called msfvenom. Aside from the obvious advantage of a single command line with standardized flags for fine-tuning your attack, msfvenom is also faster.

So, what are payloads? It's best if we first understand the core structure of Metasploit: modules. Modules are objects within Metasploit that get a certain job done, and the nature of the task defines the type of module. Payloads are just a module type within Metasploit, ...

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