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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. Through one Metasploit instance, your team will:

Armitage organizes Metasploits capabilities around the hacking process. There are features for discovery, access, post-exploitation, and maneuver. This section describes these features at a high-level, the rest of this manual covers these capabilities in detail.

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 Armitages smart automatic exploitation against your targets.

Once youre 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. Youll use compromised hosts as a hop to attack your targets network from the inside. Armitage uses Metasploits SOCKS proxy module to let you use external tools through your pivots. These features allow you to maneuver through the network.

The rest of this manual is organized around this process, providing what you need to know in the order youll need it.

Armitage exists as a client and a server that allow red team collaboration to happen. The Armitage client package is made available for Windows, MacOS X, and Linux. Armitage does NOT require a local copy of the Metasploit Framework to connect to a team server.

These getting started instructions are written assuming that you would like to connect to a local instance of the Metasploit Framework.

Armitage requires the following:

To quickly install all of the dependencies, you have a few options: