The Metasploit Project is a Ruby-based, modular penetration testing platform that enables you to write, test, and execute the exploit code. This exploit code can be custom-made by the user or taken from a database containing the latest already discovered and modularized exploits

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Metasploit Framework Console

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The msfconsole is probably the most popular interface to the Metasploit Framework (MSF). It provides an "all-in-one" centralized console and allows you efficient access to virtually all options available in the MSF. Msfconsole may seem intimidating at first, but once you learn the syntax of the commands, you will learn to appreciate the power of utilizing this interface.

The features that msfconsole generally brings are the following:

• It is the only supported way to access most of the features within Metasploit
• Provides a console-based interface to the Framework
• Contains the most features and is the most stable MSF interface
• Full readline support, tabbing, and command completion
• Execution of external commands in msfconsole

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Understanding the Architecture

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By default, all the base files related to Metasploit Framework can be found under /usr/share/metasploit-framework in our ParrotOS Security distro.

Data, Documentation, Lib

These are the base files for the Framework. The Data and Lib are the functioning parts of the msfconsole interface, while the Documentation folder contains all the technical details about the project.

Modules

The Modules detailed above are split into separate categories in this folder. We will go into detail about these in the next sections. They are contained in the following folders:

0xWALY@htb[/htb]$ ls /usr/share/metasploit-framework/modulesauxiliary  encoders  evasion  exploits  nops  payloads  post

Plugins