You're reading from Mastering Metasploit Exploit systems, cover your tracks, and bypass security controls with the Metasploit 5.0 framework

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838980078

Length 502 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

Tools

Metasploit

Concepts

Penetration Testing

Author (1):

Nipun Jaswal

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1 – Preparation and Development

2. Chapter 1: Approaching a Penetration Test Using Metasploit FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Reinventing Metasploit

4. Chapter 3: The Exploit Formulation Process

5. Chapter 4: Porting Exploits

6. Section 2 – The Attack Phase

7. Chapter 5: Testing Services with Metasploit

8. Chapter 6: Virtual Test Grounds and Staging

9. Chapter 7: Client-Side Exploitation

10. Section 3 – Post-Exploitation and Evasion

11. Chapter 8: Metasploit Extended

12. Chapter 9: Evasion with Metasploit

13. Chapter 10: Metasploit for Secret Agents

14. Chapter 11: Visualizing Metasploit

15. Chapter 12: Tips and Tricks

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Automation using the Minion script

I was randomly checking GitHub for automation scripts when I found this gem of a script. Minion is a plugin for Metasploit, and it can be convenient for quick exploitation and scans. The Minion plugin for Metasploit can be downloaded from https://github.com/T-S-A/Minion.

We can download the file to the ~/.msf4/plugins directory or, in case it doesn't work, copy it to the /usr/share/metasploit-framework/plugins directory, fire up msfconsole, and issue the load minion command, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 12.1 – Loading the Minion plugin in Metasploit

In the previous chapters, we saw how we could quickly load a plugin into Metasploit using the load command. Now, let's load the Minion plugin using the load minion command, as shown in the preceding screenshot. Once loaded successfully, switch to the workspace you have been working on or perform an Nmap scan in case there are no hosts in the...