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Metasploit for Beginners

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788295970
Length 190 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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 Rahalkar Rahalkar
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Preface 1. Introduction to Metasploit and Supporting Tools FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting up Your Environment 3. Metasploit Components and Environment Configuration 4. Information Gathering with Metasploit 5. Vulnerability Hunting with Metasploit 6. Client-side Attacks with Metasploit 7. Web Application Scanning with Metasploit 8. Antivirus Evasion and Anti-Forensics 9. Cyber Attack Management with Armitage 10. Extending Metasploit and Exploit Development

Web application scanning using WMAP

WMAP is a powerful web application vulnerability scanner available in Kali Linux. It is integrated into the Metasploit Framework in the form of a plugin. In order to use WMAP, we first need to load and initiate the plugin within the Metasploit framework, as shown in the following screenshot:

Once the wmap plugin is loaded into the Metasploit Framework, the next step is to create a new site or workspace for our scan. Once the site has been created, we need to add the target URL to be scanned, as shown in the following screenshot:

Now that we have created a new site and defined our target, we need to check which WMAP modules would be applicable against our target. For example, if our target is not SSL-enabled, then there's no point in running SSL-related tests against this. This can be done using the wmap_run -t command, as shown in the...

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