Metasploit Framework for Beginners

Hi, everyone! Welcome to Advanced Coding. Do you want to learn Ethical-Hacking? Do you want to be a Cyber-Security Professional? Are you a beginner in Kali Linux? Then you're in the right place.

Here in this website we are trying to cover it with full beginner friendly tutorials on Ethical Hacking and its numerous tools.

What is Metasploit Framework ?

Metasploit is popular hacking tool that used by a number of cyber-security professionals.

With the help of this powerful tool, ethical hackers as well as cybercriminals can explore someone's systematic vulnerabilities on networks or servers. Since it is a free and open-source framework, users can easily customize it and use it in several operating systems.

Hackers can access your Computer or Mobile Phone by sending some malware or virus based applications or web links using this framework.

Metasploit is a modular penetration testing tool, written with Ruby. that allows us to write, test and execute exploit coeds. The Metasploit Framework includes a number of tools that we can use to test security deficiencies or vulnerabilities, list or enumerate networks, execute attacks and evade detections.

It provides a full pen-testing and exploit environment for its users with full customizable features.

How to Install Metasploit ?

Install Metasploit Framework on Kali Linux

Kali Linux is a popular & free operating system that suits all the cyber security professionals.

Kali Linux provide its users with numerous hacking tools installed by default and Metasploit is one of them. But for some cases, Kali Linux comes without any pre-installed tools. For example, when we install Kali Linux on WSL2. It does not provide any hacking tool, for that we need to install all our required tools manually.

But it is as simple as drinking water to install Metasploit on Kali Linux.

We just need to apply one single command on our Kali Linux Terminal to install Metasploit.

The command is given below.-

$ sudo apt install metasploit-framework

After installing the tool, check your Applications, here you may see the venom called "Metasploit Framework", click there to open or simply type the command below-

$ msfconsole

Installing Metasploit Framework on Windows 10

Metasploit Framework is not limited to Linux or OS X based Operating Systems only, even Windows users can also take the advantages of Metasploit tool.

So, for trying it on your windows machine, you must first install the tool on your computer.

Just follow the simple steps given below to download and install the tool on your system.

⦁ First Download the latest Metasploit Windows Installer from here