Gray Hat Hacking, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

Metasploit db_autopwn

Chapter 4 introduced Metasploit along with a promise that we’d show off the clever db_ autopwn functionality in this chapter. As you saw in Chapter 4, Metasploit 3 supports multiple concurrent exploit attempts through the idea of jobs and sessions. You might remember that we used the VML exploit repeatedly and had several exploited sessions available to use. If you combine this ability to multitask exploits with Metasploit’s high-quality exploit library and a scanner to find potentially vulnerable systems, you could exploit a lot of systems without much work. The Metasploit db_autopwn module attempts to do this, adding in a database to keep track of the systems scanned by nmap or Nessus. It is a clever concept, but the ...