Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester

Extending Metasploit and Exploit Development

In the preceding chapter, you learned how to effectively use Armitage for easily performing some of the complex penetration testing tasks. In this chapter, we'll have a high-level overview of exploit development. Exploit development can be quite complex and tedious and is such a vast topic that an entire book can be written on this. However, in this chapter, we'll try to get a gist of what exploit development is, why it is required, and how the Metasploit Framework helps us develop exploit. The topics to be covered in this chapter are as follows:

• Exploit development concepts
• Adding external exploits to Metasploit
• Introduction to Metasploit exploit templates and mixins