Mastering Modern Web Penetration Testing

Interacting with Msfconsole

Msfconsole is an interactive console of Metasploit. We'll mostly use Msfconsole in this chapter to launch exploits and to interact with the shell. To launch Msfconsole in Kali Linux, we can simply open up a terminal window and enter the msfconsole command. This will result in a classic geeky banner and the msf prompt (msf>):

root@packt:~# msfconsole

Running the command will result in a shell like this one:

To view the list of exploits, payloads, encoders, and nop generators, hit the following command:

 show [module]

The [module] is to be replaced by exploits, payloads, encoders, and so on.

For example, the command show exploits ...