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Metasploit for Beginners
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Metasploit for Beginners

by Sagar Rahalkar
July 2017
Beginner
190 pages
4h 4m
English
Packt Publishing
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Generating a payload with msfvenom

Now that we are familiar with what all payloads, encoders, formats, and platforms the msfvenom utility supports, let's try generating a sample payload as shown in the following screenshot:

The following table shows a detailed explanation for each of the command switches used in the preceding msfvenom command:

Switch
Explanation
-a x86 Here, the generated payload will run on x86 architecture
--platform windows

Here, the generated payload is targeted for the Windows platform

-p windows/meterpreter/reverse_tcp Here, the payload is the meterpreter with a reverse TCP
LHOST= 192.168.44.134 Here, ...
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