Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester

Find and launch attacks

In the previous sections, we added a host to the Armitage console and performed a port scan and enumeration on it using NMAP. Now, we know that it's running a Debian-based Linux system. The next step is to find all possible attacks matching our target host. In order to fetch all applicable attacks, select the Attacks ;menu and click on Find Attacks. Now, the Armitage console will query the backend database for all possible matching exploits against the open ports that we found during enumeration earlier, as shown in the following screenshot:

Once the Armitage console finishes querying for possible exploits, you can ...