Network Attacks: Metasploit Payloads

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Network Attacks: Metasploit Payloads

In this lab, you'll learn about and practice the Metasploit Framework. When you're finished, you'll have the knowledge to utilize Metasploit listeners and payloads for exploitation.

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Lab Info

Rating

(185)

Level

Beginner

Last updated

Jul 30, 2025

Duration

1h 25m

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Getting Started in the Lab Environment

Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!
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Metasploit Basics

In this challenge you will launch Metasploit, familiarize yourself with the commands, and learn about the basic modules and components.
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Start a Listener

In this challenge, you will be introduced to the main modules of the Metasploit framework and start a listener.
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Creating Payloads

In this challenge, you will learn how to create, transfer and deploy payloads to multiple systems and receive back an interactive shell.
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The Last Challenge

Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.

About the author

Bri Frost

Bri works as the Director of Security and IT Operations Curriculum and Research at Pluralsight creating cybersecurity training content. With a wealth of knowledge as an author of Pluralsight training content, she infuses a "red-team" or attacker-focused mindset into her teachings to grasp security concepts and defense strategies effectively.

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