Introduction Metasploit framework is a penetration testing framework that contain a lot of tools (port scanners, vulnerability scanners, exploits,…etc), now we will start with the important step in penetration testing. Information Gathering The first and the most imprtant step in penetration testing is information gathering, it is collecting as much information as possible about a target and your information must be accurate.
Information gathering is 2 types
1- Passive information Gathering: It’s collecting information wthout touching the target like using
Scanning ByModules Metasploit contains a lot of modules such as (port scanners, banner grabbers for services … etc), we will use here some of these modules
Note 1: To get port scanner modules msf> search portscan TCP-SYN scanning To make TCP-SYN port scan(syn), to use a module use use command
msf> useauxiliary/scanner/portscan/syn
Then to adjust this modules use show options, you will see many options and you can set any variable you want by set command, for example to set IP address of the target address set RHOST 192.
Advanced Commands Now we will introduce some advanced commands in metasploit
1- show exploits: Display all exploites available in metasploit
msf> show exploits
2- show auxiliary: Display all auxiliaries available in metasploit (scanners, fuzzers , DOS tools … etc)
msf> show auxiliary
3- show options: Display all the options available in specific exploit for example ms03_026_dcom exploit
msf> show options
4- show payloads: Display payloads that are related to the current module for example ms03_026_dcom
