Metasploit Cookbook

Cookbook to download and install the latest version of Metasploit from Github. Based off Rapid7's notes.

Requirements

The following cookbooks are prerequisites:

apt
ruby_build
rbenv

And it will pull in the following apt packages (don't blame me, blame Metasploit):

autoconf
bison
curl
git-core
libapr1
libaprutil1
libcurl4-openssl-dev
libpcap-dev
libpq-dev
libreadline6-dev
libssl-dev
libsvn1
libtool
libxml2
libxml2-dev
libxslt-dev
libyaml-dev
locate
ncurses-dev
openssl
postgresql
postgresql-contrib
wget
zlib1g
zlib1g-dev

Note: Only tested under Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit.

Usage

To spin up an Ubuntu install using Vagrant:

git clone https://github.com/werrett/metasploit-cookbook.git metasploit-vm
cd metasploit-vm
vagrant up --provision
...
vagrant ssh
msfconsole -v
msfconsole

Attributes

directory - Where Metasploit will live.
url - Github URL to clone Metasploit from.
reference - Branch to clone from.
clone_timeout - Cloning time out. Needs to be longish.

Todo

A separate recipe that installs from a tarball. Pulling from Github is slow.

Author

Jonathan Werrett (jonathan@werrett.hk)