What is Armitage? How to Install it On Kali?

Armitage is a scriptable red team collaboration tool for Metasploit that visualizes targets, recommends exploits, and exposes the advanced post-exploitation features in the framework.

• Attack Management

Armitage organizes Metasploit capabilities around the hacking process. There are features for discovery, access, post-exploitation, and maneuver.

Armitage recommends exploits and will optionally run active checks to tell you which exploits will work. If these options fail, use the Hail Mary attack to unleash Armitage's smart automatic exploitation against your targets.

Once you're in, Armitage exposes post-exploitation tools built into the Meterpreter agent. With the click of a menu you will escalate your privileges, log keystrokes, dump password hashes, browse the file system, and use command shells.

Armitage makes it trivial to setup and use pivots. You'll use compromised hosts as a hop to attack your target's network from the inside. Armitage uses Metasploit's SOCKS proxy module to let you use external tools through your pivots. These features allow you to maneuver through the network.

Kali Linux comes with the Metasploit Framework installed. This is a good option if you want to get up and running with Armitage quickly.

• Setup Instructions (do these once!)

    Open a terminal

service postgresql start

service metasploit start

service metasploit stop

apt-get update ; apt-get install armitage

 Use Java 1.7 by default (32-bit Kali):

 update-java-alternatives --jre -s java-1.7.0-openjdk-i386

 Use Java 1.7 by default (64-bit Kali):

 update-java-alternatives --jre -s java-1.7.0-openjdk-amd64

• How to Start Armitage

    Open a terminal

service postgres start

(this does not happen automatically in Kali Linux)

cd /path/to/armitage

./armitage

• How to update Metasploit

    Open a terminal

msfupdate

service metasploit start

service metasploit stop

enjoyy