Metasploit

It is an advance tool which is used for penetration testing of the secure network system or any particular PC.  Network may be Local Area Network, Wide Area Network, Metropolitan Area Network or internet. Metasploit can be used in the security research development and Intrusion detection Systems signatures research. It was created by HD moore in 2003 with the help of perl scripting language. But the famous framework was rewritten in the Ruby programming language. It is an open source project which can be used for penetration testing, research as a legally.

Products of metasploit

1.       Metasploit framework

·         Choosing the exploit

·         Configuring the exploit

·         Check is there any risk while attack

·         Choosing payload

·         Configuring payload

·         Modify the payload according to requirements.

·         Execute the exploit

2.       Metasploit Express

3.       Metasploit Pro

4.       NeXpose