Quick Start Guide to Penetration Testing: With Nmap, Openvas and Metasploit

Get started with NMAP, OpenVAS, and Metasploit in this short book and understand how NMAP, OpenVAS, and Metasploit can be integrated with each other for greater flexibility and efficiency. You will begin by working with NMAP and ZENMAP and learning the basic scanning and enumeration process. After getting to know the differences between TCP and UDP scans, you will learn to fine tune your scans and efficiently use NMAP scripts. This will be followed by an introduction to OpenVAS vulnerability management system. You will then learn to configure OpenVAS and scan for and report vulnerabilities. The next chapter takes you on a detailed tour of Metasploit and its basic commands and configuration. You will then invoke NMAP and OpenVAS scans from Metasploit. Lastly, you will take a look at scanning services with Metasploit and get to know more about Meterpreter, an advanced, dynamically extensible payload that is extended over the network at runtime. The final part of the book concludes by pentesting a system in a real-world scenario, where you will apply the skills you have learnt. What You Will Learn Carry out basic scanning with NMAP Invoke NMAP from Python Use vulnerability scanning and reporting with OpenVAS Master common commands in Metasploit Who This Book Is For Readers new to penetration testing who would like to get a quick start on it. Chapter 1: Penetration Testing with NMAP Chapter Goal: Get a detailed on NMAP and learn how to conduct penetrations tests with it. Sub -Topics . Introduction to NMAP and ZENMAP . Basic scanning with NMAP . TCP scan Vs UDP scan . Enumerating target operating systems and services . Fine tuning the scans . Using NMAP scripts . Invoking NMAP from Python Chapter 2: OpenVAS and Kali Linux Chapter Goal: Learn vulnerability scanning and reporting with OpenVAS and get to know how it can work with NMAP Sub - Topics . Introduction to OpenVAS . Installation on Kali Linux . Importing NMAP results into OpenVAS . Vulnerability Scanning . Reporting Chapter 3: Scanning with Metasploit Chapter Goal: Get a detailed view of Metasploit's common commands and scanning services and integrate Metasploit, NMAP and OpenVAS for efficient tests. Sub - Topics: 1. Introduction to Metasploit 2. Overview of Metasploit Structure 3. Basic commands and configuration 4. Invoking NMAP and OpenVAS scans from Metasploit 5. Scanning services with Metasploit 6. Meterpreter Basics