Chapter 4. Porting Exploits
"Hacking is not the desire in breaking things. It's the desire becoming a smart-ass in things you know nothing about - so others don't have to" - Youssef Rebahi Gilbert, cyber security expert
In the previous chapter, we discussed how to write exploits in Metasploit. However, we do not need to create an exploit for particular software in cases where a public exploit is already available. A publically available exploit may be in a different programming language, such as Perl, Python, C or others. Let us now discover strategies of porting exploits to the Metasploit framework from a variety of different programming languages. This mechanism enables us to transform existing exploits into Metasploit-compatible exploits, ...
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