July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
452 pages
11h 51m
English
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, ...