Chapter 7. Sophisticated Client-side Attacks
Covering the coding part of the Metasploit framework and the penetration testing numerous environments, we are now set to introduce client-side exploitation. Throughout this and a couple of more chapters, we will detail client-side exploitation. Let's check what we have in store in this chapter. We will focus on client-based exploitation with Metasploit, which will be covered through the following key points:
- Attacking the victim's browsers
- Sophisticated attack vectors to trick the client
- Attacking web servers
- Bypassing antivirus detections
- Attacking Linux with malicious packages
- Injecting payloads into various files
Client-based exploitation requires some help from the client in order to execute properly. ...
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