Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester

Exploits

Exploits are the most important part of the Metasploit Framework. An exploit is the actual piece of code that will give you the required access to the target system. There are 2500 plus exploits spread across more than 20 categories based on platform that exploit is supported. Now, you might be thinking that out of so many available exploits, which is the one that needs to be used. The decision to use a particular exploit against a target can be made only after extensive enumeration and vulnerability assessment of our target. (Refer to the section penetration testing life cycle from Chapter 1, Introduction to Metasploit and Supporting Tools). Proper enumeration and a vulnerability assessment of the target will give us the following ...