Metasploit Framework (MSF)
Metasploit Framework (MSF) is a platform for launching modularized attacks against known software vulnerabilities.
- is a penetration testing framework that includes tools and exploits for security assessments
- used to simulate cyber-attacks to test network resilience
- powerful collection of tools designed to exploit vulnerabilities in a wide range of systems and software
- contains modules designed to exploit vulnerabilities
- can enable an attacker to gain unauthorized access with the least amount of complexity
- From the perspective of analysis,
- can be used to validate the risk of a vulnerability by exploiting it
- Pro version of Metasploit includes advanced features and a web-based user interface for identifying and validating vulnerabilities
- Many Metasploit tools and utilities are known to modern antimalware software
- which will alert and block attacks it initiates