How To Install Metasploit on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS To Test Security

White hat or Black hat, hacking demands good grasp of all sysadmin works. The usage style we show on this website are intended for testing security of own servers – that is white hat way. We have a list of essential security tools for GNU/Linux servers. Metasploit framework needs Ruby, Postgre SQL, Java etc. Here is how to install Metasploit on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to test security of servers.

Off Topic Warning : I am not teaching you moral science. Guides on this website are not designed to confer security a real black hat hacker needs in real situation. For black hat hacking you really need custom hardware and someone’s internet connection as long you are not working as Governmental agent for developing spyware, data theft etc. Goverment black hat can go up to sending some army and pushing few bullets inside your head upon suspicion, anger etc. Not funny.

 

How To Install Metasploit on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS To Test Security

 

We need to update, upgrade and install the dependencies :

We will install Oracle Java :

We need to install nmap, we can run :

Or can build from source :

We will install Ruby (using RVM; if you are new to Ruby, you can perform a search on how to install Ruby), I install in this way on server (I used same steps for Nikto & WPScan). Make sure all dependencies are installed :

We can install with RVM, this is unsafe method, not really for production website for other purpose but unlikely to give any warning or issue, you’ll run as root :

Next step is preparing PosgreSQL, a detailed guide here :

In short, you need to run these commands, where msf is database name, username :

As final step, install Metaexploit framework :

Armitage is a Java tool for management from Desktop with GUI or VNC :

Of course there is official guide :

If you run :

Metaexploit framework will start and you’ll get a command prompt like this: