From the course: Penetration Testing with Metasploit
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What can Metasploit do? - Metasploit Tutorial
From the course: Penetration Testing with Metasploit
What can Metasploit do?
- [Instructor] In this module, we'll focus on understanding the various features offered by Metasploit and try to answer the question, what can Metasploit do? In addition to that, we will also focus on what Metasploit cannot do. If we go by the six phase methodology of a penetration test, Metasploit has the implicit support for first five stages. During the passive information gathering stage, we can take advantage of its auxiliary modules to run sniffers, banner grabs, perform whois lookups, and all the other reconnaissance activities. During the active information gathering stage, or as we call it network scanning stage, we can run in map scans directly from the Metasploit console or import and map scans back to the Metasploit console. We can also use various Metasploit auxiliaries to perform a more target specific scan for the next three stages, that is, gaining access, maintaining access and clearing tracks. We largely…
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