Hands-On Web Penetration Testing with Metasploit

Using the built-in option

The Metasploit web interface provides us with some built-in options/modules that we can use to perform enumeration on the target system. Follow these steps to use the built-in option to perform enumeration:

1. To use the built-in option, click on the Scan button from the project dashboard, as shown in the following screenshot:

2. On the next page, we enter the IP address(es) we want to scan. We also define advanced options for the scan, such as what ports to exclude and a custom range:

3. You can set some extended features ...