Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester

Exploiting the target application with Metasploit

We saw how advantageous the use of Metasploit over existing exploits is. Let us exploit the application and analyze the results:

We can see that the FTPPASS and FTPUSER already have the values set as anonymous. Let us supply RHOST and the payload type to exploit the target machine as follows:

We can see that our exploit executed successfully. Metasploit also provided some additional features, which makes exploitation more intelligent. We will see these features in the next section.