Metasploit
Metasploit Framework (by rapid7)
nuclei
Fast and customizable vulnerability scanner based on simple YAML based DSL. (by projectdiscovery)
Metasploit | nuclei | |
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117 | 17 | |
32,790 | 17,234 | |
0.6% | 1.8% | |
10.0 | 9.8 | |
6 days ago | 7 days ago | |
Ruby | Go | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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.
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Best Hacking Tools for Beginners 2024
Metasploit
- Metasploit: Add Systemd BSOD QR Payload?
- Metasploit explained for pentesters
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Effective Adversary Emulation
Metasploit: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework
- CVE-2023-22515 - Atlassian Confluence unauthenticated RCE exploit module
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Hacking from anywhere
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.
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CMV: The Second Amendment "right to bear arms" and the discussions surrounding gun control also apply to hacking tools.
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:
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Hackers Tools: Must-Have Tools for Every Ethical Hacker
Metasploit Framework (mentioned earlier)
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Penetration Testing
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.
- Metasploit Framework
nuclei
Posts with mentions or reviews of nuclei.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-22.
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The 36 tools that SaaS can use to keep their product and data safe from criminal hackers (manual research)
Nuclei
- Show HN: Oneleet β Penetration Testing for SoC 2 and beyond
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Looking for short-term, resource intensive tasks to throw at a cloud server
If you own any web properties, you can use https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei running in a beefy VM to scan them for vulnerabilities. It will scale to use all available resources if you give it a big box.
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Pentesting Tools I Use Everyday
Learn more about nuclei here: https://nuclei.projectdiscovery.io/
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How I found 130+ Sub-domain Takeover vulnerabilities using Nuclei
Read about how I was able to find 136 Sub-domain Takeover vulnerabilities on a Single Target using the Nuclei tool πππClick Here - How I found 130+ Sub-domain Takeover vulnerabilities using Nuclei
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How to develope a Network Vuln Scanner
Iβd look at flan and nmap and nuclei for inspiration.
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Thoughts on Vuln scanning public facing websites/hosts during an incident?
Had an idea to leverage the community vuln scanner Nuclei (https://nuclei.projectdiscovery.io/) to just run a quick scan against the public facing hostname/IP. The job isn't supposed to be "hey you're vulnerable to xyz, but to aid in the discovering initial access. I believe this would be considered "good faith" and you're not technically be doing anything nefarious, but wanted to get the communities thoughts on this.
- Nuclei β Community Powered Vulnerability Scanner
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Log4J Network Scanning/Detection on a 100k+ Node Network
Check out Nuclei (https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Metasploit and nuclei you can also consider the following projects:
BeEF - The Browser Exploitation Framework Project
jaeles - The Swiss Army knife for automated Web Application Testing
routersploit - Exploitation Framework for Embedded Devices [Moved to: https://github.com/threat9/routersploit]
ZAP - The ZAP core project
Covenant - Covenant is a collaborative .NET C2 framework for red teamers.
SQLMap - Automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool
ffuf - Fast web fuzzer written in Go
bettercap - The Swiss Army knife for 802.11, BLE, IPv4 and IPv6 networks reconnaissance and MITM attacks.
RustScan - π€ The Modern Port Scanner π€
Brakeman - A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications
osmedeus - A Workflow Engine for Offensive Security