1) The document describes a study on penetration testing using the Metasploit framework. It outlines the various phases of a penetration test - information gathering, scanning, vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and report generation.
2) Specific techniques used in the study include the wafw00f tool to check for firewalls, xhydra for brute force password cracking, Nmap for scanning systems, and Metasploit modules like smb_ms17_010 and psexec for exploiting vulnerabilities.
3) The study was able to gain remote access to a Windows 7 system by exploiting the Eternalblue vulnerability using Metasploit and obtain a meterpreter session, demonstrating a successful penetration test.