Metasploit for Pentesters - SMFE-Community [DrLol]

The coherent teaching style and technically challenging lab exercises in the SecurityTube Metasploit Framework Expert certification help towards a gradual and comprehensive learning curve for the student.

1. What is the SMFE?


The SecurityTube Metasploit Framework Expert (SMFE) is an online certification on the Metasploit Framework. This course is ideal for penetration testers, security enthusiasts and network administrators. The course leading to the certification exam is entirely practical and hands-on in nature. The final certification exam is fully practical as well and tests the student’s ability to think out of the box and is based on the application of knowledge in practical real life scenarios.

non-exhaustive list of topics to be taught includes:
Metasploit Basics and Framework Organization
Server and Client Side Exploitation
Meterpreter – Extensions and Scripting
Database Integration and Automated Exploitation
Post Exploitation Kung-Fu – Exploring the system, Privilege escalation, Log deletion and AV / Firewall bypass
Token stealing and impersonation, Backdoors and Rootkits, Pivoting and Port forwarding, Railgun and Custom Scripting, Backdoor an Executable
Writing Metasploit Modules – Auxiliary and Exploit
Exploit research with Metasploit- Buffer Overlows, SEH etc.
Social Engineering Toolkit (SET) and Armitage
Scenario Based Hacking using Metasploit


2. Course Material, Online Labs and Community Edition


Metasploit is an extremely practical topic and for true mastery the student would have to spend time in the lab exploiting dozens of machines with different operating systems such as Windows 7, Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Redhat etc.), BSD etc. We offer on-demand, in the cloud labs as an optional component to this certification. The labs run for a month and can be renewed. The labs provide the students with access to different network configurations with firewalls, IDSs, routers and switches, and vulnerable machines. The exercises range from easy to difficult and provide a gradual learning curve for the student. Select the “Certification + 30 Day Lab Access” in the Sign Up tab if you would like to include this in your purchase.


Our course material consists of 12+ hours of video lectures with practical demonstrations. We follow a step by step pedantic approach to teaching our students. This allows them to learn at their own pace. As part of our effort to make educational material freely available to everyone, we have released the core course material videos free of charge online. Here is a list of FREE videos we have given out. You can also download these videos as part of our SMFE Community Edition DVD using the link below.