The new and improved guide to penetration testing using the legendary Metasploit Framework.

The Metasploit Framework makes discovering, exploiting, and sharing systemic vulnerabilities quick and painless. But, this popular pentesting tool can be hard to grasp for first-time users. Written by some of the world's top hackers and security experts, Metasploit fills the gap by teaching you how to best harness the Framework and interact with its vibrant community of Metasploit open-source contributors.

This indispensable guide's updated second edition introduces modules and commands recently added to the Metasploit Framework, along with a new chapter on conducting cloud-based assessments, and discussions of contemporary evasion techniques, malicious document generation, Active Directory attacks, and more.

You'll learn:

Foundational pentesting techniques, including network reconnaissance and enumeration

The Metasploit Framework's conventions, interfaces, and module system

Client-side attacks, wireless exploits, and targeted social-engineering attacks

Methods of creating custom modules and porting existing exploits to the Framework

In a fast-paced digital ecosystem, the modern hacking techniques covered in Metasploit, are essential for today's penetration testers.