Introduction

In this blog post I will show you how to install Metasploit framework on kali linux or ubuntu. The Metasploit Project’s best-known creation, is a software platform for developing, testing, and executing exploits for security purpose.

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  • Enough talk, let’s install the Kali Linux subsystem and see what it can do! Install the Windows Subsystem for Linux. First, run PowerShell as the administrator by pressing Windows + X and clicking on “Windows PowerShell (Admin).” Then enable this optional Windows feature by running the following command.
  • Install prerequisites. Sudo apt-get install p7zip git build-essential libreadline5 libreadline-dev libusb-0.1-4 libusb-dev libqt4-dev perl pkg-config wget libncurses5-dev gcc-arm-none-eabi libpcsclite-dev pcscd. Get the latest revision of the official project or the Iceman fork with additional features.

April 4th, 2019, With high anticipation from the cybersecurity community the NSA release the open source of its Software Reverse Engineering (SRE) framework Ghidra. This all gaining traction as the organization reaches out to garner potential new employees. While the effort seem to be an interesting avenue to pursue the infosec community welcomes the open-sourcing of such powerful tools.

Installation

Lets download and install the framework using the command below,

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There will be around 170-180 Mb data downloaded, so this can take a few minutes depending on your internet speed. If you get the below error, unable to connect to the database, this means that you don’t have postgres SQL installed. So, Let’s go ahead and install postgresql

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In Order to install postgresql, use the command below,

Finally, after the installation is complete, start the service using below command,

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Now, Let’s retry the launch by running, msfconsole

That’s it! You should be good to go with penetration testing using metasploit framework on kali linux. Please do check out other blog posts on flicsdb

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