Automating Metasploit

Metasploit supports automations in different ways, one of which is resource scripts.

A resource script is basically a set of commands that run automatically when a script is loaded. Metasploit already contains a set of prebuilt scripts that are useful in corporate pentesting environments. The complete list of scripts that's available can be seen in the following directory:

    /usr/share/metasploit-framework/scripts/resource# ls

The following screenshot shows the output of the preceding command:

How to do it...

1. Start Metasploit using the following command:

msfconsole

The following screenshot shows the output of the preceding command:

2. Some scripts require RHOSTS to be set globally, so we set...