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The 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 antivirus 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 stand-alone 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.

“The best guide to the 

Metasploit Framework.” — HD Moore, 

Founder of the Metasploit Project

$49.95 

($57.95 CDN)

 

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David Kennedy, Jim O’Gorman, Devon Kearns, and Mati Aharoni

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