Exploitation consists of the tactics, techniques, and procedures that attackers/adversaries utilize to gain an initial foothold on a target system and consequently the target network. The ability to identify and exploit vulnerabilities is an important skill to master on your journey to becoming a skilled penetration tester. In this course, you will learn about how to identify vulnerabilities on a target by performing banner grabbing and vulnerability detection. In addition to identifying vulnerabilities, you will also learn how to search for and modify exploit code that will be used to exploit a particular vulnerability on a target system. Furthermore, this course will also introduce you to bind and reverse shells and will demonstrate how they work and how they can be used to gain remote access to a Windows or Linux target.
After identifying vulnerabilities on a target system, you will learn how to exploit these vulnerabilities both manually and automatically through the use of exploitation frameworks like Metasploit and PowerShell-Empire. This course also covers the process of encoding and obfuscating exploits and payloads to avoid detection by signature-based AV’s. The objective of this course is to give you in-depth hands-on skills necessary to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in a target system both manually and automatically.
