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Metasploit, 2nd Edition
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Metasploit, 2nd Edition

by David Kennedy, Mati Aharoni, Devon Kearns, Jim O'Gorman
January 2025
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
7h 12m
English
No Starch Press
Content preview from Metasploit, 2nd Edition

13 BUILDING YOUR OWN MODULES

Building your own Metasploit module is simple if you have some programming experience. You can write Metasploit modules in both Python and Ruby. Because Metasploit is primarily Ruby-based, that’s what we’ll choose.

One of the best ways to write your own Metasploit module is to modify the code of an existing module. For that reason, we’ll start by exploring an existing Metasploit module targeting MS SQL, so you can understand how it works. Then, we’ll use it as the basis for our own MS SQL module.

If you have some exposure to the Ruby language, you should be able to follow along. However, if you find yourself ...

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