Ethical Hacking Study Journal: Target Exploitation

Hello again! I still can’t believe that it’s already week 9 of Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing course. Time flies so fast, I can’t believe the semester is almost over!

For the 9th week, we learned about target exploitation. Now, target exploitation revolves around vulnerability. So target exploitation is about exposing the vulnerabilities that an application has. This post will  mention BeEF and discuss metasploit as exploitation tools.

BeEF stands for Browser Exploitation Framework.

This type of exploitation tool focuses on the web browser.

Another tool that is commonly used is metasploit.

We can use this by opening the terminal in Kali Linux and put the command msfconsole. It will show something like this

When we type the command help, we will get a list of all the commands that we can use with metasploit.

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