The msfvenom utility

Earlier, the Metasploit Framework offered two different utilities, namely, ;msfpayload and msfencode. The msfpayload was used to generate a payload in a specified format and the msfencode was used to encode and obfuscate the payload using various algorithms. However, the newer and the latest version of the Metasploit Framework has combined both of these utilities into a single utility called msfvenom.

The msfvenom utility can generate a payload as well as encode the same in a single command. We shall see a few commands next:

Note

The msfvenom is a separate utility and doesn't require msfconsole to be running at same time.

• List payloads: The msfvenom utility supports all standard Metasploit payloads. We can list all the available payloads using the msfvenom --list payloads command as shown in the following screenshot:

• List encoders: As we have discussed earlier, the msfvenom is a single utility, which can generate as well as encode the payload. It supports all standard Metasploit...