The Art of Exploitation
Hacking is a wide field in which every day new cases are faced. Sometimes we are collecting information about the good are bad things of a person, domain, computer and organization. Sometimes, we are accessing computers or mobile phones. Sometimes we are hunting social media accounts like Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn etc. Sometimes we are exploiting specific vulnerabilities that are harmful for our victim. All these things are called hacking. But our post is about Art of Exploitation. Art means “fun, method, ability or skill” and exploitation means “to access” in case of hacking. So full meaning of our post or topic is, method to access a system” or domain or company.
In our this post our main topic is Metasploit that is used to hack websites, services and windows, mac, Linux and android systems using different payloads, modules etc. So in this post we will learn art of exploitation by Metasploit that is very useful hacking tool.
METASPLOIT:
It is coded in ruby. It is the sum of two words ‘meta’ means ‘huge’, ‘big’ or ‘wide’. Word ‘sploit’ is taken from word ‘exploit’ which means ‘to break’ or ‘to hack’. So full meaning of Metasploit is ‘big hacker’ or ‘big hacking tool’ or ‘wide in hacking’.
Metasploit is all in one tool for hacking therefore, it is named as Metasploit. It is widely used for hacking. It can do all works like scanning, vulnerability analysis, exploitation, web hacking, database hacking etc.
Mainly it is used to exploit different vulnerabilities it is used 80% in hacking. No one can talk about its uncountable features. In our post we will discuss widely about Metasploit.
Metasploit interface in kali Linux
It depends upon postgresql service so you should start postgresql before starting Metasploit to work fast. Run command;
(service postgresql start)
BASIC COMMANDS OF METASPLOIT
TO START METASPLOIT: (msfconsole)
TO TAKE HELP: (help)
TO SHOW OPTION OF A PAYLOAD: (show options)
TO CHECK AVAILABLE TARGET IN A NETWORK: (show target)
TO UPDATE MSF: (msfupdate)