Metasploit on Ubuntu

Metasploit is a computer security project that provides valuable information about the security vulnerabilities of a system. It can also help a system admin penetration testing and IDS signature development. With Metasploit, security teams can not only verify the vulnerabilities but also manage security calculations and improves security awareness; it can allow the team to stay ahead of the attackers with strong defense.

Metasploit uses Ruby at its core. Ruby is a powerful interpreted language. Metasploit is available in 2 editions – open-source (community edition) and paid (Metasploit Pro, Express).

As a Linux enthusiast, let’s check out the free, open-source version of Metasploit into our Ubuntu system!

Installing Metasploit

Installing dependencies

At first, we have to make sure that the system is ready for the installation.

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Update all the system components –

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

Now, it’s time to install all the dependencies.

sudo apt install curl gpgv2 autoconf bison build-essential git-core libapr1 postgresql libaprutil1 libcurl4-openssl-dev libgmp3-dev libpcap-dev openssl libpq-dev libreadline6-dev libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev locate libsvn1 libtool libxml2 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev wget libyaml-dev ncurses-dev  postgresql-contrib xsel zlib1g zlib1g-dev

Installing Metasploit

Now, time to finally install Metasploit. Run the following command –

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-omnibus/master/config/templates/metasploit-framework-wrappers/msfupdate.erb > msfinstall && \

chmod 755 msfinstall && \

./msfinstall

Firing Metasploit

Metasploit offers various ways of enjoying the service – GUI (Cobal Strike and Armitage) and CLI (msfcli and msfconsole). Metasploit also offers various APIs for controlling Metasploit from a remote computer. It can also be a great solution for scripting, especially performing automated tasks.

Let’s check out firing “msfconsole”. At first, we need the PostgreSQL service to run.