Part 1 - Installing Metasploit Community Edition
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This lesson covers the installing of the Metasploit community edition. In this lesson, participants begin to learn how to explore the GUI interfaces that are part of the metasploit framework. Also covered is what can be done with the Metasploit community edition as well as Armitage. The metasploit community edition is not included with Kali and nee...
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Video Description
This lesson covers the installing of the Metasploit community edition. In this lesson, participants begin to learn how to explore the GUI interfaces that are part of the metasploit framework. Also covered is what can be done with the Metasploit community edition as well as Armitage. The metasploit community edition is not included with Kali and needs to be downloaded separately.
Video Transcription
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>> Hello, everyone. Dean Pompilio here,
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hope you're enjoying the Metasploit course.
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We're finally getting to our very last module
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where we're going to be exploring
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the GUI interfaces that are available for Metasploit.
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We'll spend some time looking at what you can do
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>> with the Metasploit Community Edition
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>> and we'll also have a look at Armitage.
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>> First of all, community edition,
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this is not included with Kali,
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so you do have to go
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>> to the Rapid7 website to download this.
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>> It's not a very complex process really.
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Just go to Products,
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go to Metasploit,
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and you download the community edition here.
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You do have to go through a registration process
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>> and you'll get an activation code emailed to you.
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>> I'm just going to skip that portion of it.
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Since I've already done that,
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we can just go here
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>> and you should end up with a file like this
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>> in your downloads directory,
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>> Metasploit-latest-linux-x64-installer.
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I'm just going to go ahead and run the installer.
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It asks you to accept the license agreement,
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>> pretty straightforward stuff.
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>> Aptmetasploit is the default folder,
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it's probably a good idea to use this
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instead of putting it in user share
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>> because that's where the Metasploit framework exists
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>> and you don't want these two directories
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>> in the same place,
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>> so it's good to have a aptmetasploit
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>> for user-installed software.
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>> It's probably because I had this previously installed.
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I'm going to go ahead and remove that folder.
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That should take care of the problem. There we go.
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Do I want to start Metasploit as a service,
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I'm going to say yes to that for convenience purposes.
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Disabling antivirus and firewall, for obvious reasons,
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you may need to do this
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>> to get certain exploits to work and so on.
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>> You'll have to pick through
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those requirements when you get to them.
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Standard port 3790.
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>> Also, I'm going to leave the defaults
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>> for the server name.
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>> I'm trusting the certificate,
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and then the install begins.
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This is going to take a few minutes.
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I'm going to go ahead and pause rather,
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and we'll start back up once that step completes.
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The installation is almost finished and
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we're just waiting for Metasploit to actually start up.
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It's in the startup and services,
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we'll be listening on port 3790 as I showed earlier.
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That finally finished.
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I'll go ahead and click the Finish button,
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and we'll see if it launches the page.
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That didn't launch the page. That's okay.
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I can go to my local host, port 3790.
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You do have to accept the certificate
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since it is self-signed,
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you can certainly replace this
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>> with a third party certificate
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>> at some point if you wish.
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>> Go ahead and confirm the security exception.
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Now we get to your login info.
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I'm going to create an account called admin.
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The rest of this information here is optional,
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so I'm going to leave that away
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or leave that alone rather.
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Here I have to enter my product key.
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As I mentioned, you get this emailed to you.
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I'm going to pause here and
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come back when that part's done.
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The activation is finished.
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One thing that's always good to do
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when you're installing the community edition
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>> is go to your Administration tab
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>> and click on Software Updates.
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You can check for updates.
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>> Most likely there's going to be something.
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>> Here we see a dot junior exploit module,
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set of new auxiliary and post exploit modules.
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Take a peek and see what that is.
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See what actually got included.
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Could be something interesting here,
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Project Sonar, don't really know anything about that,
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but maybe new exploit modules for Android,
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D-link routers, a bunch of bug fixes.
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Some good info to explore,
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but we're going to go ahead
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>> and just install those updates.
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>> This will also take several minutes,
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>> so I'm going to pause.
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