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Hands-On Red Team Tactics
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Hands-On Red Team Tactics

by Himanshu Sharma, Harpreet Singh
September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
9h 45m
English
Packt Publishing
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Auxiliaries

The Metasploit framework is equipped with hundreds of auxiliaries that can be used to perform different tasks. These modules can be considered as small tools that do not exploit anything but aid us in the exploitation process. To view a list of all the auxiliaries, we can use the following command:

show auxiliary

We will look at an example of running an auxiliary that runs a version scan on the SMB service and tells us the OS that is installed on the system we ran the auxiliary on. To choose the auxiliary, we type in the following command:

use auxiliary/scanner/smb/smb_ms17_101  

We can see more information about what this auxiliary ...

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ISBN: 9781788995238