🔌 Plugins

🧠 What Are They?

• Third-party or built-in tools integrated into Metasploit.

• Extend functionality (e.g., Nessus, Nexpose, sqlmap).

• Automate tasks, simplify workflows, and enhance assessments.

• Work via the Metasploit API and interact with the framework directly.

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📂 Plugin Directory

To view available plugins:

ls /usr/share/metasploit-framework/plugins

Sample output:

aggregator.rb      nessus.rb       sqlmap.rb      token_adduser.rb
db_credcollect.rb  openvas.rb      socket_logger.rb  ...

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▶️ Loading a Plugin

Inside msfconsole:

load nessus

Output:

[*] Nessus Bridge for Metasploit
[*] Type nessus_help for a command listing
[*] Successfully loaded Plugin: Nessus

See plugin help:

nessus_help

If plugin doesn't exist:

load Plugin_That_Does_Not_Exist

Output:

[-] Failed to load plugin... cannot load such file...

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🔄 Installing New Plugins

🔽 Download

Example: DarkOperator’s Metasploit Plugins 🔗 https://github.com/darkoperator/Metasploit-Plugins

git clone https://github.com/darkoperator/Metasploit-Plugins
ls Metasploit-Plugins

📥 Install

sudo cp ./Metasploit-Plugins/pentest.rb /usr/share/metasploit-framework/plugins/pentest.rb

🚀 Load in Metasploit

msfconsole -q
load pentest

Sample Output:

Pentest Plugin loaded.
by Carlos Perez
[*] Successfully loaded plugin: pentest

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🧪 Plugin Example – pentest

help

Categories include:

• 🔍 Discovery Commands

  • network_discover, discover_db, pivot_network_discover

• 💥 Auto Exploit

  • show_client_side, vuln_exploit

• 📡 Postauto

  • multi_post, sys_creds, multi_cmd, multi_meter_cmd

• 📁 Project Commands

  • project

• 🔧 Tradecraft

  • check_footprint

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🌟 Common Plugins

Plugin	Status
nMap	Pre-installed
NexPose	Pre-installed
Nessus	Pre-installed
Mimikatz	Pre-installed (v1)
Incognito	Pre-installed
Railgun	Available
Stdapi	Pre-installed
DarkOperator	Optional install

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🧬 Mixins

💡 What Are Mixins?

• Ruby modules used to include methods in classes (not inheritance).

• Promote code reusability and flexibility.

🧾 Syntax

include ModuleName

Mixins let you add features to multiple classes without writing the same logic repeatedly.

More info: 🔗 Mixins in Ruby

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