Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester

Libraries and the function

Let's see some important functions from the libraries that are used in this module as follows:

Functions	Library File	Usage
run_host	/lib/msf/core/auxiliary/scanner.rb	The main method which will run once for each host.
connect	/lib/msf/core/auxiliary/scanner.rb	Used to make a connection to the target host.
send_raw_request	/core/exploit/http/client.rb	This function is used to make raw HTTP requests to the target.
request_raw	/rex/proto/http/client.rb	Library to which send_raw_request passes data to.
http_fingerprint	/lib/msf/core/exploit/http/client.rb	Parses HTTP response into usable variables.

Let's now understand the module. Here, we have a method named run_host with IP as the parameter to establish ...