Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester

The format of a Metasploit module

The skeleton for a Metasploit modules is fairly simple. We can see the universal header section in the following code:

require 'msf/core' 
 
class MetasploitModule < Msf::Auxiliary 
  def initialize(info = {}) 
    super(update_info(info, 
      'Name'           => 'Module name', 
      'Description'    => %q{ 
        Say something that the user might want to know. 
      }, 
      'Author'         => [ 'Name' ], 
      'License'        => MSF_LICENSE 
    )) 
  end 
  def run 
    # Main function 
  end 
end 

A module generally starts by including the important libraries with the require keyword, which in the preceding code is followed by the msf/core libraries. Thus, it includes the core libraries from the msf directory.

The next major thing is to define the class type in place of MetasploitModule, which ...