From the course: Metasploit Essential Training
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What is msfvenom?
From the course: Metasploit Essential Training
What is msfvenom?
- [Instructor] What is msfvenom? Msfvenom is a standalone payload generator. It is a combination of msfpayload and msfencode. It is fast and uses a single instance. It is also standardized command-line and has core options. You can generate payloads for many platforms like Cisco, Android, Mac OS, Solaris, Firefox, Windows, Unix, Node.js and many more. When creating an msfpayload, there are three common payloads that you would utilize. The first one is a bind shell. A bind shell is a kind of payload that opens a new service on the target machine and requires the attacker to connect to it in order to get a session. Then of course, we have the reverse TCP payload. This is one where it's the exact opposite of the bind shell. It requires the attacker to set up the listener first on the box, the target machine acts as a client connecting to that listener and then finally the attacker receives the shell. Then we also have the HTTPS…
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