Making use of resource scripts

Metasploit offers automation through resource scripts. The resource scripts eliminate the task of setting the options manually and set up everything automatically, thus saving the time that is required to set up the options of a module and the payload.

There are two ways to create a resource script, which are creating the script manually or using the makerc command. I personally recommend the makerc command over manual scripting, since it eliminates typing errors. The makerc command saves all the previously issued commands in a file, which can be used with the resource command. Let's see an example:

We can see in the preceding screenshot that we launched an exploit handler module by setting up its associated payload and options such as LHOST and LPORT. Issuing the makerc command will save all these commands in a systematic way into a file of our choice, which is multi_hand in this case. We can see that makerc successfully saved last six commands into the multi_hand...