Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook - Third Edition

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As we discussed earlier, the format of an exploit module is similar to that of an auxiliary one, with some specific additions.

1. The module starts with the declaration of a class, which extends the properties relevant to the exploit. In this example, the MetasploitModule class extends the Remote Exploit libraries. In addition, the module includes other mixins, such as Seh, Egghunter, and Tcp:

class MetasploitModule < Msf::Exploit::Remote  Rank = GreatRanking  include Msf::Exploit::Remote::Seh  include Msf::Exploit::Remote::Egghunter  include Msf::Exploit::Remote::Tcp

2. Then, we have the initialize function, which is used to initialize the different values and content definitions of the modules. Some of the primary definitions of ...