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Mastering Metasploit

You're reading from   Mastering Metasploit Discover the next level of network defense with the Metasploit framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463166
Length 440 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Nipun Jaswal Nipun Jaswal
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Mastering Metasploit
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
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. Speeding up Penetration Testing 10. Visualizing with Armitage

Using pushm and popm commands


Metasploit offers two great commands, pushm and popm. The pushm command pushes the current module onto the module stack, while popm pops the pushed module from the top of the module stack. However, this is not the standard stack available to processes; instead, it is the utilization of same concept by Metasploit, but it's otherwise unrelated. The advantage of using these commands is speedy operations, which saves a lot of time and effort.

Consider a scenario where we are testing an internal server with multiple vulnerabilities. We have two exploitable services running on every system on the internal network. In order to exploit both services on every machine, we require a fast switching mechanism between modules for both the vulnerabilities. In such cases, we can use the pushm and popm commands. We can test a server for a single vulnerability using a module and then can push the module on the stack and load the other module. After completing tasks with the second...

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