Meterpreter Installation Guide

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Today I’m going to give a small introduction about METASPLOIT framework.

What Is Metasploit?

Metasploit is among the most widely used exploitation tools in the hacking/security field. It's used by both novices and advanced professionals. Metasploit has consistently ranked among the top ten since its inception and currently ranks second. This should give you some idea of how important Metasploit is in the security community.

Metasploit is a self-described "framework" for cyber exploitation. As a framework, it eases the effort to exploit known vulnerabilities in networks, operating systems and applications, and to develop new exploits for new or unknown vulnerabilities.

Metasploit has developed a Meterpreter that when loaded into a target system, makes maintaining access and controlling the target much easier. As such, every self-respecting hacker (and even those without self-respect) should have some basic knowledge of Metasploit. This series of articles will initially focus on conferring at least a rudimentary understanding of how Metasploit works and how it can be utilized by the hacker/penetration tester to own the box, download data and cover your tracks.

Metasploit was developed in 2003 as an open source project by H.D. Moore. Originally developed in PERL, the developer team rewrote Metasploit in Ruby in 2007. This is critical, because you need to have Ruby on your system in order to run Metasploit and to develop your own exploits.

After many years of success in the hacker/penetration tester community, it was purchased by Rapid7 in 2009. After its purchase, the Metaspoloit framework was split into three versions. Two are commercial versions; Metasploit Express and Metasploit Professional, the latter selling for $1800. These two have nice GUIs and numerous bells and whistles, including the automation of several attacks, but there is still a free and open source community edition known as the Metasploit Community.

Some independent developers at Armitage have created a free and open source GUI for Metasploit that is both beautiful and elegant, for those that prefer the point-and-click mode of operation. There is a Windows version of Metasploit, but many of the features (raw IP packet injection, wireless driver exploitation, SMB relaying attacks, etc.) are unavailable in the Windows environment, though some of these limitations can be overcome by using Cygwin or running Windows in a virtual environment on Linux. I prefer LINUX because it is the mostly used operating system by hackers.

Download and Install :

The first step in our process is to download and install Metasploit. Although there is a Windows version, I will focus on the Linux version because of its greater flexibility and capability. Let's walk through the download and installation

Download it from below links

for Windows(64-bit) users .

for Linux (32bit | 64-bit) users download here.

Now you are ready with the .exe or .run file.

Lets go further and install.

Before you can run the installer, you need to make it executable. In the terminal, you must change the mode to execute (x) for Metasploit:

chmod +x framework-4.*-linux-full.run

And now execute the installer by getting root privileges by typing sudo and ./ with the name of our package:

sudo ./framework-4.*-linux-full.run

You should then be prompted for your root password. After entering that, you should get a screen that looks something like this:

  

Click Forward and accept Terms & Conditions.

You can choose to install the Automatic Updates(not mandatory, but good to have it)

Here, Metasploit is asking whether you want to insert a different service script. You can just accept the default and hit Forward.

Be patient now; it will take Metasploit a few minutes to install and build your database. After it's done, you are ready to run Metasploit. Simply type:

msfconsole

Finally, you should be greeted by this screen.

You have now successfully installed the world’s best open source exploit framework and you are ready to begin system/network exploitation and penetration testing!

Keep watching for more tricks that can be performed with this tool.

Have a Good Day..!!