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Metasploit Reloaded

By ryan naraine March 27, 2007, 1:17 AM PDT

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Installations screen

Installations screen

HD Moore’s open-source Metasploit Framework has been rewritten from scratch and released with 177 exploits, 104 payloads and new modules to exploit Wi-Fi driver vulnerabilities in the Windows kernel.rn

In addition to hundreds of exploits and payloads, Moore said Metasploit 3.0 also ships with 30 auxiliary modules to perform tasks like host discovery, protocol fuzzing, and denial-of-service testing. See Ryan Naraine’s report on the new version here.

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Web console

Web console

The Metasploit Framework Web Console 3.0, showing in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7.

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Web console in IE 7

Web console in IE 7

The web interface (msfweb) is a Ruby on Rails application that uses the Prototype JavaScript Framework to provide in-browser windowing support. Asynchronous JavaScript is used to provide as-you-type search results for any module type and provide tab completion for the web console interface.

Metasploit Reloaded

Metasploit console interface

Metasploit console interface

The Metasploit console interface has a new “route” command that
allows all network connections to a given subnet to be routed through an existing session.

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Metasploit 3.0 help menu

Metasploit 3.0 help menu

A help menu provides assistance for pen testers.

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Modules organized in directory structure

Modules organized in directory structure

Metasploit modules are now organized in a directory structure instead of a single flat directory. A caching system provides faster loading times. The result is a scalable system that can manage hundreds of different modules at a time (over 300 alone in this release).

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VNC injection

VNC injection

Visual evidence of a successful VNC code execution exploit.

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Dumping SAM hashes

Dumping SAM hashes

A “priv” extension (accessible by the “use priv” command) provides the hashdump command for dumping password hashes and the timestomp command for erasing file system timestamps.

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Backgrounded Exploit Session

Backgrounded Exploit Session

hanks to Ruby’s in-process threading support, it is possible to share a single Metasploit instance with other users, exploit multiple hosts at the same time, and run persistent background services, while only consuming the system resources of a single process.

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Nop and Payload Generation

Nop and Payload Generation

Metasploit 3.0 contains 177
exploits, 104 payloads, 17 encoders, and 3 nop modules. Additionally, 30 auxiliary modules are included that perform a wide range of tasks,
including host discovery, protocol fuzzing, and denial of service testing.

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