The Complete Metasploit Guide

Client-Side Exploitation

We covered coding and performed penetration tests in numerous environments in the earlier chapters; we are now ready to introduce client-side exploitation. Throughout this section and a couple more, we will learn client-side exploitation in detail.

Throughout this chapter, we will focus on the following:

• Attacking the target's browser
• Sophisticated attack vectors to trick the client
• Attacking Android and using Kali NetHunter
• Using Arduino for exploitation
• Injecting payloads into various files

Client-side exploitation sometimes requires the victim to interact with malicious files, which makes its success dependable on the interaction. These interactions could be visiting a malicious URL or downloading and executing ...