Metasploit VS php-reverse-shell

Compare Metasploit vs php-reverse-shell and see what are their differences.

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Metasploit php-reverse-shell
110 8
31,205 1,725
1.4% -
9.9 0.0
3 days ago 2 months ago
Ruby PHP
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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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 2023-05-29.
  • 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/
  • [P] Machine Learning Threat Detection in k8s
    2 projects | /r/MachineLearning | 24 Jan 2023
    Well, what is considered "real" data here? Why couldn't you simply set up a managed k8s cluster with some prometheus monitoring and run the microservices-demo on it. There is even a synthetic load generator. You could purposefully add in specific kinds of faults into the working system, ones that are supported in metasploit so you can automate intrusions. Consider some goals for gaining access like: exfiltration, denial of service, ransomware. Then consider how you might detect such attacks purely from what you can read out of the prometheus time series data (eg. high egress traffic plus high req/s to redis might mean an exfiltration).
  • Metasploit VS ronin-exploits - a user suggested alternative
    2 projects | 17 Jan 2023
  • Python hacking lib
    2 projects | /r/Python | 11 Nov 2022
    If only there was already a tool which is a consolidated Swiss army knife of security utilities.
  • What’s Ruby used for most nowadays?
    9 projects | /r/ruby | 30 Oct 2022
    Ruby is mainly used in web app development because that's what makes money. However, Ruby is also used in Information Security (infosec) and there are a dozen or so Ruby security tools and libraries (metasploit, ronin, arachni, dnscat2, dradis). There's also SciRuby which aims to allow Ruby being used in the scientific/academic fields. You've probably heard/seen DragonRuby which is helping to popularize Ruby for simple game development. There's also a lot of interesting work happening around mruby and mruby-c (see mruby/c on Flipper Zero and mruby on DreamCast).
  • Implement DevSecOps to Secure your CI/CD pipeline
    54 projects | dev.to | 27 Sep 2022
    Pen testing is a proactive cybersecurity practice where security experts target individual components or whole applications to find vulnerabilities that can be exploited to compromise the application and data. ZAP, Metasploit, and Burp Suite can be used for doing pen tests and it can discover vulnerabilities that might be missed by SAST and DAST tools. The downside of a pen test is that it takes more time depending on the coverage and configuration. The proper pen test might take up to several weeks, and with DevOps development speed, it becomes unsustainable. However, it's still worth adding Internal VAPT which can be done on every feature release to move fast and external VAPT can be done biannually or annually to keep overall security in check.

php-reverse-shell

Posts with mentions or reviews of php-reverse-shell. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-05.
  • Hack The Box Writeup: Cronos
    2 projects | dev.to | 5 Jun 2022
    Using the same method as before, I used wget again to upload this PHP shell, and it worked when I navigated to it in the browser, which instantly gave me a shell.
  • wp_admin_shell_upload
    2 projects | /r/HowToHack | 14 Feb 2021
    The way I usually manually go about this is through a php reverse shell from pentestmonkey . All you have to do is login to the admin panel on the Wordpress site and replace the code in the 404 page with the reverse shell (don’t forget to change the IP and port variables in the shell). Then you set up your listener (you can use metasploit or just ‘nc -lvnp {port}’ and trigger the shell by visiting the 404 page.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Metasploit and php-reverse-shell you can also consider the following projects:

BeEF - The Browser Exploitation Framework Project

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

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

Rack::Attack - Rack middleware for blocking & throttling

thc-hydra - hydra

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

pwntools - CTF framework and exploit development library

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

CrackMapExec - A swiss army knife for pentesting networks

SecureHeaders - Manages application of security headers with many safe defaults