In this article we will be talking about the very basics of Metasploit and the Metasploit commands used in the command line interface. At first the MSF console command line and the number of available commands might seem a lot and hard to understand and use, but don’t be intimidated by them. Once you get to understand the concept and the clear structure it will be very easy. If we put it all together the Metasploit framework consists of the core and base, a lot of exploits, payloads, modules (Ruby classes), plugin’s, scripts and multiple user interfaces. Metasploit framework also contains some great information gathering tools called auxiliary modules. Auxiliary modules can be used for port scanning, service identification, password sniffing and Windows patch enumeration. Metasploit is highly customizable for advanced users and can be customized the meet your custom needs by writing your own exploits, modules, plugin’s and scripts. If Metasploit doesn’t provide the information gathering module you need by default, than you can simply write it yourself.
The msfconsole is the user interface known to be the most stable interface and the one we will be working with throughout the Metasploit tutorials on Hacking Tutorials. Apart from the stability, another benefit of the msfconsole is the option to execute external commands like the ping command and the tab auto completion. There is also a graphical user interface available for Metasploit called Armitage. We will be looking at Armitage and how to use it instead of msfconsole in a later tutorial. Let’s continue this Metasploit commands tutorial with updating the Metasploit Framework if necessary and then switch to the msfconsole to see what commands are available to us.
Meterpreter Basic Commands
Help
The ‘help’ command, as may be expected, displays the Meterpreter help menu.
PS
The ‘ps’ command displays a list of running processes on the target.
LS
As in Linux, the ‘ls’ command will list the files in the current remote directory.
Ipconfig
The ‘ipconfig’ command displays the network interfaces and addresses on the remote machine.
Getuid
Running ‘getuid’ will display the user that the Meterpreter server is running as on the host.
Download
The ‘download’ command downloads a file from the remote machine. Note the use of the double-slashes when giving the Windows path.
Upload
As with the ‘download’ command, you need to use double-slashes with the ‘upload’ command.
Shell
The ‘shell’ command will present you with a standard shell on the target system.
help
List available commands.
info
Get more info about a module.
Search
Search for specific module.
show target
View a list of platforms that the module supports
connect
Similar to netcat.
Jobs
Display/manage jobs.
Exit
Exit MSF.
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