Metasploit 5.0 for Beginners - Second Edition

Chapter 9: Cyber Attack Management with Armitage

So far in this book, you have learned various basic and advanced techniques for using Metasploit in all stages of the penetration testing life cycle. We have performed all this using the Metasploit command-line interface msfconsole. Now that we are familiar with using msfconsole, let's move on to using a graphical interface, which will make our penetration testing tasks even easier. In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

• What is Armitage?
• Starting the Armitage console
• Scanning and enumeration
• Finding and launching attacks

Technical requirements

The following are required:

• Armitage
• The Metasploit Framework
• Metasploitable 2

What is Armitage?

In simple terms, Armitage is nothing more ...