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.

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.

sudo service postgresql start

Time to start Metasploit!

sudo msfconsole

You’ll see the Metasploit console running.

For all the available commands, type help or “?” (without quotes).

For exiting the console, run the following command –

exit

Enjoy!

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