The fundamentals of Armitage
Armitage is an attack manager tool that automates Metasploit in a graphical way. Armitage is built in Java and was created by Raphael Mudge. It is a cross-platform tool and can run on both Linux as well as Windows operating systems.
Getting started
Throughout this chapter, we will use Armitage in Kali Linux. To start Armitage, perform the following steps:
Open a terminal and type in the
armitage
command, as shown in the following screenshot:Click on the Connect button in the pop-up box to set up a connection
In order to start Armitage, Metasploit's Remote Procedure Call (RPC) server should be running. As soon as we click on the Connect button in the previous pop-up, a new pop-up will occur and ask if we want to start Metasploit's RPC server. Click on Yes, as shown in the following screenshot:
It takes a little time to get the Metasploit RPC server up and running. During this process, we will see messages such as Connection refused, time and again. This is because...