Getting started with Armitage

Well I've never bothered playing with armitage before, but I figured what the hell. I decided to post a quick how-to on getting it fired up for the first time. First, make sure you're all up to date, then use your repositories to install armitage.

apt-get update

apt-get armitage

then we will have to fire up metasploits rpc deamon, as that's what armitage uses to interact with the metasploit framework.

msfrpcd -f -U msf -P test -t Basic

now make sure mysql is up and running;

/etc/init.d/mysql start

Now, make sure you're in armitage's directory and run the shell script "armitage.sh". For BT4 (BT5 is out) you would be issuing these commands.

cd /pentest/exploits/armitage

armitage.sh

Now, seeing as we set the user as "msf" and the password as "pass" with the msfrpcd command, we can just hit "connect". That should have done it, if all's well you see something like this;