num_pages: 328
description: The best guide to the Metasploit Framework. HD Moore Founder of the Metasploit ProjectThe Metasploit Framework makes discovering exploiting and sharing vulnerabilities quick and relatively painless. But while Metasploit is used by security professionals everywhere the tool can be hard to grasp for first-time users. Metasploit: The Penetration Tester's Guide fills this gap by teaching you how to harness the Framework and interact with the vibrant community of Metasploit contributors.Once you've built your foundation for penetration testing you'll learn the Framework's conventions interfaces and module system as you launch simulated attacks. You'll move on to advanced penetration testing techniques including network reconnaissance and enumeration client-side attacks wireless attacks and targeted social-engineering attacks.Learn how to:Find and exploit unmaintained misconfigured and unpatched systems Perform reconnaissance and find valuable information about your target Bypass anti-virus technologies and circumvent security controls Integrate Nmap NeXpose and Nessus with Metasploit to automate discovery Use the Meterpreter shell to launch further attacks from inside the network Harness standalone Metasploit utilities third-party tools and plug-ins Learn how to write your own Meterpreter post exploitation modules and scripts You'll even touch on exploit discovery for zero-day research write a fuzzer port existing exploits into the Framework and learn how to cover your tracks. Whether your goal is to secure your own networks or to put someone else's to the test Metasploit: The Penetration Tester's Guide will take you there and beyond.
language: English
title: Metasploit: The Penetration Tester's Guide
publisher: No Starch Press