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Differentiate Metasploit Framework Attacks From Others, Gina Liu Ajero
Differentiate Metasploit Framework Attacks From Others, Gina Liu Ajero
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Metasploit Framework is a very popular collection of penetration testing tools. From auxiliaries such as network scanners and mappers to exploits and payloads, Metasploit Framework offers a plethera of apparatuses to implement all the stages of a penetration test. There are two versions: both a free open-source community version and a commercial professional version called Metasploit Pro. The free version, Metasploit Framework, is heavily used by cyber crimininals to carry out illegal activities to gain unauthorized access to targets.
In this paper, I conduct experiments in a virtual environment to discover whether attacks originated from Metasploit Framework are marked with …