Summary

We started this chapter with a brief overview of the anatomy and structure of the Metasploit Framework including Auxiliaries, Payloads, Exploits, NOPS, POST, Encoders and Evasion. We then began using the msfconsole and the common commands like help, show, banner, connect, and so on. We then learnt about essential variables used in the framework along with how to assign them values using commands such as set and setg.

We also had a look at how to keep our Metasploit Framework up to date. In the next chapter, we'll start using the Metasploit Framework for performing information gathering and enumeration on our target systems.