We have covered how to speed up penetration testing in the previous chapter. Let's continue with another great tool that can also be use to speed up a penetration test. Armitage is a GUI tool that acts as an attack manager for Metasploit. Armitage visualizes Metasploit operations and based on the tests made by it, Armitage recommends exploits as well. Armitage is most capable of providing shared access to Metasploit and team management as well.
In this chapter, we will look at Armitage and its features. We will also look at how we can conduct penetration testing with this GUI-enabled tool for Metasploit. In the latter half of this chapter, we will look at Cortana scripting for Armitage.
Throughout this chapter, we will cover the following key points:
Penetration testing with Armitage
Attacking with remote and client-side exploits in Armitage
Scanning networks and host management
Post-exploitation with Armitage
Basics of Cortana scripting
Attacking with Cortana...