Mastering Metasploit - Second Edition

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: " We can see that running pattern_create.rb script from /tools/exploit/ directory, for a pattern of 1000 bytes will generate the above output "

A block of code is set as follows:

def exploit     connect     weapon = "HEAD "     weapon << make_nops(target['Offset'])     weapon << generate_seh_record(target.ret)     weapon << make_nops(19)     weapon << payload.encoded     weapon << " HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n" ...