Penetration Testing with Metasploit Ethical hacking stream

Set up a virtual penetration testing lab by configuring host and guest operating systems with virtualization software. Use open source images like Kali Linux or BackTrack and manage resources.

Set up a penetration testing lab in live mode with VirtualBox and Kali Linux, boot from a live CD, and explore information gathering tools.

Perform a graphical installation of Kali Linux in a virtual machine, selecting language and regional settings, proceeding through the installer, and logging in with default credentials after restart.

Configure a virtual lab with vulnerable testbeds to practice penetration testing using Metasploit, access a vulnerable Linux VM with default credentials, and perform vulnerability analysis and scanning.

Learn how to capture a virtual machine snapshot to save its state and revert to a previous point, and clone the virtual machine to create a pre-configured lab environment.

Explore the Metasploit framework architecture, its exploits, payloads, auxiliary modules, and libraries, and how they enable regular security assessments in penetration testing.

This lecture demonstrates how Metasploit auxiliary modules perform port scanning, fuzzing, and sniffing, using a port scan module to identify open ports on a target and prepare for future exploitation.

Explore how Metasploit exploits are categorized by ranking across Windows Vista and Unix-based systems, and learn to organize and deploy exploits and payloads within the framework.

Explore great ranking exploits within a metasploit-driven penetration testing workflow, targeting a Windows XP service pack 2 box from a Linux attacker host, including identifying API exploits and configuring targets.

Demonstrates using metasploit auxiliary modules to brute-force and verify default credentials on a target VNC server, gaining GUI access and remotely exploring ranking exploits in a lab environment.

Discover how payloads in Metasploit enable communication and post-exploit functionality, including singles, stagers, and stage payloads, with examples and how they upload stages to control the compromised system.

Create a dedicated test database and user, configure credentials, and establish a local connection using the shown db commands. Then verify connectivity with the db status check.

Install and configure Nessus, load plugins, and register with an activation code to perform a basic vulnerability scan on a local host and generate a report.

Learn to install Nessus, start the service, access the Nessus web interface, create a scan policy, configure targets, run the scan, and review and export results.

Import a Nessus report into Metasploit, identify vulnerabilities, and exploit a remote host to obtain a command shell.

Explore msfcli within the metasploit framework to target and exploit Windows XP and SMB vulnerabilities, configure a static IP, deploy a payload, and observe post-exploit connectivity.

Use Armitage, a gui front end for Metasploit, to connect to target, select modules, and exploit services. Demonstrate exploiting Windows XP box and gaining a shell on Linux box.

Meterpreter is the default payload for Windows in the Metasploit framework, residing in memory, encrypting all attacker–victim communications, and enabling full control over the target machine.

Explore how meterpreter operates in three stages to establish a reverse connection, inject payload into memory, and secure an encrypted, memory-resident session for penetration testing.

Master Meterpreter post-exploitation with file system, network, system, and privilege commands. Create and deploy customized MSF payloads, deliver backdoors, and gain access via the multi-hundred exploit.

Learn Meterpreter core commands for managing sessions, backgrounding, interacting with the victim, listing processes, migrating between processes, and using information and auxiliary modules during penetration testing with Metasploit.

learn how meterpreter file commands let you view and transfer files, list directories, read file contents, and download or upload data between victim and attacker.

Explore meterpreter user interface commands to capture keystrokes, control the keyboard and mouse, take screenshots, dump hashes, and explore timestamping and password creation on Windows systems.

Explore system commands to view target system information, processes, and user ids, and use the incognito extension to list and impersonate tokens.

Explore Meterpreter networking commands to gather host information, identify remote host IPs, view connections with netstat, and examine routing tables for pen-testing scenarios.

This lecture demonstrates how file attributes like creation, modification, and access times are managed and manipulated using the timestamp tool, highlighting forensic implications and the risks of timestamp tampering.

Explore client-side attacks, triggering vulnerabilities via malicious documents or executables, through a four-stage lab that contrasts patched and unpatched machines and demonstrates back-connection payloads.

Discover Msfpayload, Msfencode, and Msfvenom for metasploit payloads and encoding, and learn how payload size and shellcode affect delivery and detection on the attack machine.

Explore creating a binary payload with Metasploit to illustrate how backdoors establish connections between attacker and victim, and how defenses like antivirus and firewall affect exploitation.

Demonstrates using a VNC binary payload with Metasploit, switching payload types A, B, and C to gain graphical user interface access on a Windows XP victim from the attacker machine.

Disable a court decision popup during a vnc payload exploit. Show how injecting the payload establishes a connection and gains access to the victim machine.

Demonstrate how to deploy a Linux binary payload using Metasploit, configure host settings, and gain root privileges through a backdoor on Linux-based distros.

Explore stage 2 linux binary payloads in penetration testing with metasploit, focusing on bypassing a firewall, configuring listener, and generating an executable payload that connects back to the attack machine.

Exploit Microsoft Office docs by exploiting a file format vulnerability and macro execution to bypass security, establish a session between attacker and victim, and use metasploit tools.

Explore how to exploit PDF vulnerabilities in a metasploit-enabled penetration test, crafting and delivering a PDF exploit to Windows.

Learn to add a persistent backdoor on a victim machine using Metasploit framework, system scripts, and persistence techniques to maintain access after disconnections.

Demonstrates exploiting software misconfiguration by analyzing an outdated application, identifying vulnerable services, and selecting a suitable exploit in a lab using the metasploit framework.

Exploit a fully patched Windows XP machine protected by firewall and antivirus by targeting anonymous FTP access, using an MSF payload within the metasploit framework.

Learn to perform browser-based exploitation using the Metasploit framework, including manual exploits, configuring browser settings, and targeting outdated browsers like Internet Explorer across victim sessions.

Install and configure BeEF, the browser exploitation framework, on a Linux-based system, edit config files, set the callback IP, and run BeEF to explore browser-based vulnerabilities.

Explore how to work with BeEF modules in penetration testing, analyzing a victim's browser on a Windows XP target, detecting software like MS Office, retrieving cookies, and executing commands.

Explore loading Metasploit framework modules into BeEF by importing and enabling plugins, resetting the database, and executing the framework to import and run module collections.

Install and configure SET (the social engineering toolkit) for penetration testing with Metasploit, and explore its command-line and web interfaces while learning how it automates social engineering attacks.

Explore the fundamentals of social engineering, including motivations, the human factor as the security weakest link, and phishing with the social engineering toolkit for ethical testing.

Learn how tabnabbing exploits multi-tab browsing using social engineering and the set toolkit to steal login credentials from phishing pages.

Web jacking phishing technique within penetration testing, showing how a fake page mimics a genuine site to harvest user credentials through social engineering.

Install and configure Armitage, the user interface for the Metasploit framework, and connect to hosts. Explore scanning, exploit selection, and interaction with compromised machines to dump hashes and access shells.

Exploit a target using the meter reader to perform basic post exploitation, dump credentials, migrate to another process, interact with the command shell, and collect files, screenshots, and keystrokes.

Install the Metasploit framework on a Linux machine by downloading from the official site, running the update.sh script, and exploring available modules and payloads.

Explore how the veil framework evades antivirus detection and enables a customized backdoor with payloads, demonstrated on a Windows 7 victim machine.

Learn to integrate the veil script into armitage for metasploit-based penetration testing by launching armitage, starting dependent services, and importing and loading the script through armitage’s scripts interface.

Explore exploiting a victim's machine using Armitage with Veil, generate and deploy payloads, configure a Windows meterpreter session, and set up the listener for delivery.

The lecture demonstrates exploiting a victim machine using a customized powershell script delivered via the social engineering toolkit, enabling a listener and back connection to gain control.

Install an Android virtual testbed for penetration testing, including setting up a new virtual device and connecting to a remote server to deploy the test environment.