Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook

Getting started with Armitage

Let us start with a basic setup guide for Armitage. We will cover Armitage setup in Windows and BackTrack in Linux. Armitage comes pre-installed in recent versions of BackTrack. To set up Armitage on Windows, we can download the ZIP file from its official web page

http://www.fastandeasyhacking.com/download

How to do it...

Let us start with setting up Armitage in BackTrack.

1. Armitage will be pre-installed in BackTrack 5 R2. It can be launched by clicking on Applications on the desktop and then navigating to Backtrack | Exploitation tools | Network Exploitation tools | Metasploit framework | Armitage.

   You will see a GUI that will ask you to set up the connection. It will have the default username and password as msf and ...