Kage for Meterpreter sessions
Kage is a GUI for Metasploit RCP servers that has a neat electron interface for us to control our targets. Kage allows payload generation and target interaction through sessions. As it's still pretty early days for the tool, it only allows Windows and Android target sessions for now. Upon running Kage for the first time, we are presented with a screen similar to the one shown here:
So, how can Kage be helpful for us? Consider a scenario where you have installed Metasploit on a VPS server anonymously. To anonymize your footprints, you purchase a decent VPN service and then use Kage to connect to the target VPS server running Metasploit and receiving connections. To connect with Metasploit, the Metasploit RPC service must be running. We can run the RPC service in two ways: by either using the msfrpcd
binary or within the Metasploit console itself. The msfrpcd
binary presents the following...