The Complete Metasploit Guide

Using venom for obfuscation

In the previous chapter, we saw how we could defeat AVs with custom encoders. Let's go one step ahead and talk about encryption and obfuscation in the Metasploit payloads; we can use a great tool called venom for this. Let's create some encrypted Meterpreter shellcode, as shown in the following screenshot:

As soon as you start venom in Kali Linux, you will be presented with the screen shown in the preceding screenshot. The venom framework is a creative work from Pedro Nobrega and Chaitanya Haritash (Suspicious-Shell-Activity), who worked extensively to simplify shellcode and backdoor generation for various operating ...