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Published inMay 2017
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Nipun Jaswal
Nipun Jaswal
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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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Scanning HTTPS/SSL with Metasploit


Metasploit contains the SSL scanner module that can uncover a variety of information related to the SSL service on a target. Let us quickly set up and run the module as follows:

We have the SSL module from auxiliary/scanner/http, as shown in the preceding screenshot. We can now set the RHOSTS, a number of threads to run, and RPORT if it is not 443, and execute the module as follows:

Analyzing the preceding output, we can see that we have a self-signed certificate in place on the IP address 192.168.1.8 and other details such as CA authority, e-mail address, and much more. This information becomes vital to law enforcement agencies and in cases of fraud investigation. There have been many cases where the CA has accidentally signed malware spreading sites for SSL services.

We learned about various Metasploit modules. Let us now delve deeper and look at how the modules are built.

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Published in: May 2017Publisher: ISBN-13: 9781788297134

Author (1)

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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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