Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing

Metasploit architecture

Metasploit architecture is composed of many important components. To fully use the power of Metasploit, many components are needed:

• Tools: This is a set of useful utilities
• Plugins: These are loadable extensions at runtime
• Libraries: These are useful Ruby libraries 
• Interfaces: These give users the ability to access Metasploit in different ways (CLI and web for instance)
• Modules: These are components that perform specific tasks

This diagram illustrates the architecture of Metasploit framework: