BeEF VS Metasploit

Compare BeEF vs Metasploit and see what are their differences.

BeEF

The Browser Exploitation Framework Project (by beefproject)

Metasploit

Metasploit Framework (by rapid7)
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BeEF Metasploit
42 117
9,314 32,532
1.7% 1.2%
9.0 10.0
1 day ago 7 days ago
JavaScript Ruby
- GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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BeEF

Posts with mentions or reviews of BeEF. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-07.
  • Why are there so many Rails related posts here?
    6 projects | /r/ruby | 7 May 2023
    This is something that kind of annoys me; there's even a /r/rails sub-reddit specifically for Ruby on Rails stuff. Understandably Rails helped put Ruby on the map. Before Rails, Ruby was just another fringe language. Rails became massively popular, helped many startups quickly build their Web 2.0 sites, and become successful companies (ex: GitHub, LinkedIn, AirBnB, etc). Like others have said, "Rails is where the money is at". However, this posses a problem for the Ruby community: whenever Rails becomes less popular, so does Ruby. I wish the Ruby ecosystem wasn't so heavily centralized around Rails, and that we diversified our uses of Ruby a bit. There's of course Sinatra, dry-rb, Hanami, Dragon Ruby, SciRuby, and a dozen security tools written in Ruby such as Metasploit, BeFF, Arachni, and Ronin.
  • Es seguro entrar en cualquier url?
    2 projects | /r/devsarg | 29 Mar 2023
  • How attackers use exposed Prometheus server to exploit Kubernetes clusters
    5 projects | dev.to | 2 Dec 2022
    Third-party registry: In this case, one of the methods could be social engineering, using tools like BeeF to create a specific phishing or fake page to get the login credentials and change the image to a new one with a known and exploitable vulnerability and wait for the deployment. One more thing is this is not magic or 100% successful. If the company scans the images in the deployment, it could be detected!
  • Don’t know how to create phishing link
    2 projects | /r/hacking | 29 Aug 2022
  • Trying to install beEF on Ubuntu but this message pops up after I tried to manually install ruby gems
    3 projects | /r/Ubuntu | 26 Mar 2022
    Here are the instructions: git clone https://github.com/beefproject/beef
    3 projects | /r/Ubuntu | 26 Mar 2022
    Here’s what I typed: sudo apt-get update -y; sudo apt-get upgrade -y sudo apt install ruby ruby-dev sudo apt install git git clone https://github.com/beefproject/beef.git //changed directories here to beef sudo ./install //then here is where it didn’t work. It said I had to install ruby gems manually and to the latest version. After, I typed in bundle install And it can up with the error in the picture
  • FUD Keylogger
    2 projects | /r/hacking | 30 Dec 2021
    I don't know much about it other than what I picked up in a Levelonetechs video, but look into the beef project since you do a little website development and the vector will be in the browser anyway.
  • Anyone know how to fix this Beef-xss problem im having?
    2 projects | /r/hacking | 21 Sep 2021
    Sep 21 20:33:54 kali beef[1241]: [20:33:54] | Site: https://beefproject.com
    2 projects | /r/hacking | 21 Sep 2021
  • Selfhosted keychain/password manager
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 14 Jan 2021
    If you want to have some more understanding of what might be possible, have a look at https://github.com/beefproject/beef

Metasploit

Posts with mentions or reviews of Metasploit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-01.
  • Best Hacking Tools for Beginners 2024
    5 projects | dev.to | 1 Feb 2024
    Metasploit
  • Metasploit explained for pentesters
    4 projects | dev.to | 1 Dec 2023
    msf6 > use auxiliary/scanner/smb/smb_ms17_010 msf6 auxiliary(scanner/smb/smb_ms17_010) > options Module options (auxiliary/scanner/smb/smb_ms17_010): Name Current Setting Required Description ---- --------------- -------- ----------- CHECK_ARCH true no Check for architecture on vulnerable hosts CHECK_DOPU true no Check for DOUBLEPULSAR on vulnerable hosts CHECK_PIPE false no Check for named pipe on vulnerable hosts NAMED_PIPES /usr/share/metasploit-framework/data/wordl yes List of named pipes to check ists/named_pipes.txt RHOSTS yes The target host(s), see https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/wiki/U sing-Metasploit RPORT 445 yes The SMB service port (TCP) SMBDomain . no The Windows domain to use for authentication SMBPass no The password for the specified username SMBUser no The username to authenticate as THREADS 1 yes The number of concurrent threads (max one per host)
    4 projects | dev.to | 1 Dec 2023
  • Effective Adversary Emulation
    3 projects | dev.to | 27 Nov 2023
    Metasploit: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework
  • Hacking from anywhere
    3 projects | /r/Hacking_Tutorials | 11 Oct 2023
    1-) Learn Hacking on a debian based distro like Kali Linux - I personally started with tools like nikto, camhacker... and then moved to more complex frameworks like metasploit.
  • Hackers Tools: Must-Have Tools for Every Ethical Hacker
    2 projects | dev.to | 29 May 2023
    Metasploit Framework (mentioned earlier)
  • I watched a video of Mr. Robot programming a script. As I watch the script, the syntax is reminiscent of the Ruby language, and it really is.
    2 projects | /r/ruby | 24 May 2023
    It's using the metasploit framework https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework
  • The 36 tools that SaaS can use to keep their product and data safe from criminal hackers (manual research)
    18 projects | /r/SaaS | 22 May 2023
    Metasploit
  • Why are there so many Rails related posts here?
    6 projects | /r/ruby | 7 May 2023
    This is something that kind of annoys me; there's even a /r/rails sub-reddit specifically for Ruby on Rails stuff. Understandably Rails helped put Ruby on the map. Before Rails, Ruby was just another fringe language. Rails became massively popular, helped many startups quickly build their Web 2.0 sites, and become successful companies (ex: GitHub, LinkedIn, AirBnB, etc). Like others have said, "Rails is where the money is at". However, this posses a problem for the Ruby community: whenever Rails becomes less popular, so does Ruby. I wish the Ruby ecosystem wasn't so heavily centralized around Rails, and that we diversified our uses of Ruby a bit. There's of course Sinatra, dry-rb, Hanami, Dragon Ruby, SciRuby, and a dozen security tools written in Ruby such as Metasploit, BeFF, Arachni, and Ronin.
  • Pentesting Tools I Use Everyday
    8 projects | dev.to | 7 Feb 2023
    Learn more about Metasploit here: https://www.metasploit.com/

What are some alternatives?

When comparing BeEF and Metasploit you can also consider the following projects:

Covenant - Covenant is a collaborative .NET C2 framework for red teamers.

routersploit - Exploitation Framework for Embedded Devices [Moved to: https://github.com/threat9/routersploit]

SQLMap - Automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool

bettercap - The Swiss Army knife for 802.11, BLE, IPv4 and IPv6 networks reconnaissance and MITM attacks.

Brakeman - A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications

thc-hydra - hydra

Rack::Attack - Rack middleware for blocking & throttling

pwntools - CTF framework and exploit development library

CVE-2021-1675 - C# and Impacket implementation of PrintNightmare CVE-2021-1675/CVE-2021-34527

php-reverse-shell

CrackMapExec - A swiss army knife for pentesting networks