Book description
Metasploit Toolkit for Penetration Testing, Exploit Development, and Vulnerability Research is the first book available for the Metasploit Framework (MSF), which is the attack platform of choice for one of the fastest growing careers in IT security: Penetration Testing. The book will provide professional penetration testers and security researchers with a fully integrated suite of tools for discovering, running, and testing exploit code.This book discusses how to use the Metasploit Framework (MSF) as an exploitation platform. The book begins with a detailed discussion of the three MSF interfaces: msfweb, msfconsole, and msfcli .This chapter demonstrates all of the features offered by the MSF as an exploitation platform. With a solid understanding of MSF’s capabilities, the book then details techniques for dramatically reducing the amount of time required for developing functional exploits.
By working through a real-world vulnerabilities against popular closed source applications, the reader will learn how to use the tools and MSF to quickly build reliable attacks as standalone exploits. The section will also explain how to integrate an exploit directly into the Metasploit Framework by providing a line-by-line analysis of an integrated exploit module. Details as to how the Metasploit engine drives the behind-the-scenes exploitation process will be covered, and along the way the reader will come to understand the advantages of exploitation frameworks. The final section of the book examines the Meterpreter payload system and teaches readers to develop completely new extensions that will integrate fluidly with the Metasploit Framework.
- A November 2004 survey conducted by "CSO Magazine" stated that 42% of chief security officers considered penetration testing to be a security priority for their organizations
- The Metasploit Framework is the most popular open source exploit platform, and there are no competing books
Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- VISIT US AT
- Technical Editor
- Contributing Authors
- Companion Web Site
- Chapter 1: Introduction to Metasploit
- Chapter 2: Architecture, Environment, and Installation
- Chapter 3: Metasploit Framework and Advanced Environment Configurations
- Chapter 4: Advanced Payloads and Add-on Modules
- Chapter 5: Adding New Payloads
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Case Studies
- Introduction to Case Studies
- Case Study 1: RaXnet Cacti Remote Command Execution
- Case Study 2: Mercur Messaging 2005 SP3 IMAP Remote Buffer Overflow (CVE–2006-1255)
- Case Study 3: SlimFTPd String Concatenation Overflow
- Case Study 4: WS-FTP Server 5.03 MKD Overflow
- Case Study 5: MailEnable HTTP Authorization Header Buffer Overflow
- Appendix A: Advantages of Network Vulnerability Testing with Metasploit 3.0
- Appendix B: Building a Test Lab for Penetration Testing
- Appendix C: Glossary of Technology and Terminology
- Index
Product information
- Title: Metasploit Toolkit for Penetration Testing, Exploit Development, and Vulnerability Research
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2011
- Publisher(s): Syngress
- ISBN: 9780080549255
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