xray VS Metasploit

Hi folks, I released bruter a golang tool that I enjoyed building:

It is a simple app that was built as an experiment while dusting my Go skils. It is indeed very much inspired by (https://github.com/evilsocket/xray) (but hey not copied ;)). The tooling can be used to test webservers and validate configurations, but not just!

What does it do?

It grabs HostInfo data from Shodan APIs, so you will need a Token to try this out

It collects banners for various services FTP, SSH, MYSQL, IRC, SMTP

It collects HTTP headers

It brute force directories on WebServers and reports results (200, 403)

It produces a Web UI for presentation

Check it out and let me know what you think! Feedbacks are very welcome :D

It is a simple app that was built as an experiment while dusting my Go skils. It is indeed very much inspired by (https://github.com/evilsocket/xray) (but hey not copied ;)). The tooling can be used to test webservers and validate configurations, but not just!

XRay - Network (sub)domain discovery and reconnaissance automation tool.

Metasploit

Metasploit: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework

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.

I once had to give a presentation about Metasploit, and whether it was ethically correct for the creator to make it free and open-source, available to everyone. And in researching this I realized that there were a lot of parallels between the arguments for or against hacking tools being readily available and the arguments for or against gun control. I'll just list a few quickly:

Metasploit Framework (mentioned earlier)

This phase is where the pen testers practically prove that there exist potential vulnerabilities in the target system. The pen testers do the hacking using an array of technical approaches and social engineering methods to exploit the vulnerabilities. The ethical hackers commonly use Metasploit framework to automatically execute exploitation against the target systems. Moreover, they may install malwares such as rootkit to persistently maintain their foothold and further compromise the target system.