Metasploit Framework

Modules

$ ls /usr/share/metasploit-framework/modules

auxiliary  encoders  evasion  exploits  nops  payloads  post

Plugins

$ ls /usr/share/metasploit-framework/plugins/

aggregator.rb      ips_filter.rb  openvas.rb           sounds.rb
alias.rb           komand.rb      pcap_log.rb          sqlmap.rb
auto_add_route.rb  lab.rb         request.rb           thread.rb
beholder.rb        libnotify.rb   rssfeed.rb           token_adduser.rb
db_credcollect.rb  msfd.rb        sample.rb            token_hunter.rb
db_tracker.rb      msgrpc.rb      session_notifier.rb  wiki.rb
event_tester.rb    nessus.rb      session_tagger.rb    wmap.rb
ffautoregen.rb     nexpose.rb     socket_logger.rb

Scripts

$ ls /usr/share/metasploit-framework/scripts/

meterpreter  ps  resource  shell

Tools

$ ls /usr/share/metasploit-framework/tools/

context  docs     hardware  modules   payloads
dev      exploit  memdump   password  recon

Help

MSF - Search Function

msf6 > help search

Usage: search [<options>] [<keywords>:<value>]

Prepending a value with '-' will exclude any matching results.
If no options or keywords are provided, cached results are displayed.

OPTIONS:
  -h                   Show this help information
  -o <file>            Send output to a file in csv format
  -S <string>          Regex pattern used to filter search results
  -u                   Use module if there is one result
  -s <search_column>   Sort the research results based on <search_column> in ascending order
  -r                   Reverse the search results order to descending order

Keywords:
  aka              :  Modules with a matching AKA (also-known-as) name
  author           :  Modules written by this author
  arch             :  Modules affecting this architecture
  bid              :  Modules with a matching Bugtraq ID
  cve              :  Modules with a matching CVE ID
  edb              :  Modules with a matching Exploit-DB ID
  check            :  Modules that support the 'check' method
  date             :  Modules with a matching disclosure date
  description      :  Modules with a matching description
  fullname         :  Modules with a matching full name
  mod_time         :  Modules with a matching modification date
  name             :  Modules with a matching descriptive name
  path             :  Modules with a matching path
  platform         :  Modules affecting this platform
  port             :  Modules with a matching port
  rank             :  Modules with a matching rank (Can be descriptive (ex: 'good') or numeric with comparison operators (ex: 'gte400'))
  ref              :  Modules with a matching ref
  reference        :  Modules with a matching reference
  target           :  Modules affecting this target
  type             :  Modules of a specific type (exploit, payload, auxiliary, encoder, evasion, post, or nop)

Supported search columns:
  rank             :  Sort modules by their exploitabilty rank
  date             :  Sort modules by their disclosure date. Alias for disclosure_date
  disclosure_date  :  Sort modules by their disclosure date
  name             :  Sort modules by their name
  type             :  Sort modules by their type
  check            :  Sort modules by whether or not they have a check method

Examples:
  search cve:2009 type:exploit
  search cve:2009 type:exploit platform:-linux
  search cve:2009 -s name
  search type:exploit -s type -r

Examples

msf6 > search eternalromance type:exploit

msf6 > search type:exploit platform:windows cve:2021 rank:excellent microsoft

setg

MSF - Permanent Target Specification

msf6 exploit(windows/smb/ms17_010_psexec) > setg RHOSTS 10.10.10.40