Mastering Python for Networking and Security

Metasploit architecture

The main components of the Metasploit architecture are libraries that consist of Rex, framework-core, and framework-base. The other components of the architecture are interfaces, custom plugins, protocol tools, modules, and security tools. Modules included are exploits, payloads, encoders, NOPS, and auxiliary.

In this diagram, we can see the main modules and Metasploit architecture:

The main modules of the Metasploit architecture are:

• Rex: The basic library for most tasks that the framework will execute. It is responsible for handling things such as connections to websites (for example, when we search for sensitive ...