Metasploit

Exploring an Existing Metasploit Module

Now we’ll examine what is actually occurring “under the hood” of the module we just worked with, mssql_exec. This allows us to get a feel for how existing code is operating before we write our own. Let’s open the module with a text editor to see how it operates:

root@bt:/opt/framework3/msf3# nano modules/auxiliary/admin/mssql/mssql_exec.rb

The following lines excerpted from the module yield a few important things worthy of note:

 require 'msf/core'

 class Metasploit3 < Msf::Auxiliary

      include Msf::Exploit::Remote::MSSQL ...