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Metasploit 5.0 for Beginners - Second Edition
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Metasploit 5.0 for Beginners - Second Edition

by Sagar Rahalkar
April 2020
Beginner
246 pages
4h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 5: Vulnerability Hunting with Metasploit

In the last chapter, you learned various techniques of information gathering and enumeration. Now that we have gathered information about our target system, it's time to check whether the target system is vulnerable and whether we can exploit it in reality. In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Managing the database
  • Vulnerability detection with Metasploit auxiliaries
  • Auto-exploitation with db_autopwn
  • Exploring post-exploitation
  • Introduction to msf utilities

Technical requirements

The following software are required:

  • Kali Linux
  • The Metasploit Framework
  • NMAP
  • Nessus
  • Metasploitable 2

Managing the database

As we have seen so far, the Metasploit Framework is a tightly coupled collection ...

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ISBN: 9781838982669