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Mastering Metasploit

You're reading from Mastering Metasploit Take your penetration testing and IT security skills to a whole new level with the secrets of Metasploit

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788990615

Length 492 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Metasploit

Concepts

Penetration Testing

Author (1):

Nipun Jaswal

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Dedication

Packt Upsell

Contributors

Preface

1. Approaching a Penetration Test Using Metasploit FREE CHAPTER

2. Reinventing Metasploit

3. The Exploit Formulation Process

4. Porting Exploits

5. Testing Services with Metasploit

6. Virtual Test Grounds and Staging

7. Client-Side Exploitation

8. Metasploit Extended

9. Evasion with Metasploit

10. Metasploit for Secret Agents

11. Visualizing with Armitage

12. Tips and Tricks

1. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Index

Exploiting browsers for fun and profit

Web browsers are used primarily for surfing the web; however, an outdated web browser can lead to the entire system being compromised. Clients may never use the preinstalled web browsers and instead choose one based on their preference; however, the default preinstalled web browser can still lead to various attacks on the system. Exploiting a browser by finding vulnerabilities in the browser components is known as browser-based exploitation.

Note

For more information on Firefox vulnerabilities, refer to https://www.cvedetails.com/product/3264/Mozilla-Firefox.html?vendor_id=452. Refer to Internet Explorer vulnerabilities at https://www.cvedetails.com/product/9900/Microsoft-Internet-Explorer.html?vendor_id=26.

The browser autopwn attack

Metasploit offers browser autopwn, a collection of various attack modules that aim to exploit the target's browser by triggering the relevant vulnerabilities. To understand the inner workings of this module, let's discuss...

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Authors (1)

Nipun Jaswal

Nipun Jaswal

Nipun Jaswal is an international cybersecurity author and an award-winning IT security researcher with more than a decade of experience in penetration testing, Red Team assessments, vulnerability research, RF, and wireless hacking. He is presently the Director of Cybersecurity Practices at BDO India. Nipun has trained and worked with multiple law enforcement agencies on vulnerability research and exploit development. He has also authored numerous articles and exploits that can be found on popular security databases, such as PacketStorm and exploit-db. Please feel free to contact him at @nipunjaswal.

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