The Metasploit Team has release a new plugin, a bridge between Metasploit and Nessus. This new plugin is a collaboration between HD Moore, James Lee, Zate Berg, darkoperator and the Nessus Team. If you follow the PaulDotCompodcast, you know that Paul is a employe of the Nessus team and that darkoperator (aka Carlos Perez) is an official developer of the Metasploit project. A good collaboration between the 2 teams how has uncorked on this new important step in Metasploit.

In the first par of the post serie, we have describe all the generic, user and policy command. In this new post we will describe the plugin, scan, report and “nessus_find_targets” commands.

Plugin Commands

• Getting a list of plugins by family – nessus_plugin_list :

If you are an admin user or a normal user, by typing this command you will have a list of plugins by family.

• Getting the detail of a family of plugins – nessus_plugin_family :

If you wish to have the detail of a plugin family, just type the following command :

• Getting details on a specific plugin of a family – nessus_plugin_details :

To get details on a specific plugin of a family of plugin, you have to precise the plugin file name listed with the previous “nessus_plugin_family” command.

• Details of Nessus plugins preferences – nessus_plugin_prefs :

To get details of all Nessus plugins preferences, just type the following command :

nessus_plugin_prefs

Scan Commands

• Starting a new Nessus scan – nessus_scan_new :

To start a new Nessus scan run the following command :

nessus_scan_new <policy id> <scan name> <targets>

Where “policy id” is the unique ID of the policy to be used, “scan name” the name of the scan and “targets” the targeted hostnames or IP addresses.

• List of all current Nessus scans – nessus_scan_status :

To get a list of all current Nessus scans, run the following command :

• Pausing a running Nessus scan – nessus_scan_pause :

To pause a running Nessus scan run the following command :

nessus_scan_pause <scan id>

Where “scan id” is the unique ID of the Nessus scan how is available by the previous command “nessus_scan_status“.

To pause all running Nessus scans, just run the following command :

nessus_scan_pause_all

• Resuming a paused Nessus scan – nessus_scan_resume :

To resume a Nessus scan run the following command :

nessus_scan_resume <scan id>

Where “scan id” is the unique ID of the Nessus scan how is available by the command “nessus_scan_status“.

To resume all paused Nessus scans, just run the following command :

nessus_scan_resume_all

• Stopping a Nessus scan – nessus_scan_stop :

To stop a Nessus scan, run the following command :

nessus_scan_stop <scan id>

Where “scan id” is the unique ID of the Nessus scan how is available by the command “nessus_scan_status“.

To stop all the Nessus scan, just type the following command :

nessus_scan_stop_all

In the following post we will describe the reports and the “nessus_find_targets” commands.

The Metasploit Team has release a new plugin, a bridge between Metasploit and Nessus. This new plugin is a collaboration between HD Moore, James Lee, Zate Berg, darkoperator and the Nessus Team. If you follow the PaulDotCom podcast, you know that Paul is a employe of the Nessus team and that darkoperator (aka Carlos Perez) is an official developer of the Metasploit project. A good collaboration between the 2 teams how has uncorked on this new important step in Metasploit.

To activate the Nessus bridge plugin, just update you Metasploit installation to the latest revision and log in the Metasploit console. The pre-requirements are that you need to have a running Nessus 4.2.x installation with a valid user account.

• Loading the nessus plugin

Generic commands

• Getting help – nessus_help :

To have an overview of all the Metasploit Nessus bridge plugin commands, just type :

msf auxiliary(ssh_version) > nessus_help

Or to have a specific command help, just type :

nessus_help <command>

• Connecting to Nessus – nessus_connect :

To connect to Nessus, just type :

nessus_connect login:password@nessusd_ip:port <ssl ok>

“login” and “password” variables are you’re Nessus user login and password. “nessusd_ip” variable is the IP address or the hostname of Nessusd. “port” variable is the port where Nessusd is listening, by default 8834/tcp. “ok” variable is for letting you know that nessus use a self signed certificate and that risks are present.

• Saving your connexion configuration – nessus_save :

To save your connexion configuration just run the nessus_save command, a nessus.yaml file will be created into you $HOME/.msf3 directory. You don’t need anymore to provide the nessus_connect variables.

• Logout from nessus – nessus_logout :

To disconnect from Nessus, just run the following command :

• Checking Nessus status – nessus_server_status :

To check the Nessus version, the feed version, the Nessus Web version, the total number of users, policies, running scans, reports and plugging, run the following command :

• Checking the current Nessus user privileges – nessus_admin :

If the Nessus user used is an admin, the following result is displayed

If the Nessus user used is not an admin, the following result is displayed

• Checking the Nessusd Feed type – nessus_server_feed :

To check the Nessus version, the feed version and the Nessus Web version, run the following command :

User Commands

• List of all Nessus users – nessus_user_list :

If you are an admin, you will be able to list all the Nessus users, they’re login, user rights (admin or not), and they’re last login dates.

• Adding a Nessus user – nessus_user_add :

If you are an admin, you will be able to add a normal Nessus user by typing the following command :

nessus_user_add <username> <password>

• Deleting a Nessus user – nessus_user_del :

If you are an admin, you will be able to delete a normal, or an admin, Nessus user.

• Changing a Nessus user password – nessus_user_passwd :

If you are an admin, you will be able to change the password of admin, and non admin, Nessus users.

Policy commands

You still need to first create your policy in Nessus between the Nessus Client or Web Interface.

• Listing of all Nessus policies – nessus_policy_list :

If you are a normal Nessus user, you will only be able to see the “Shared” Nessus policies.

But if you are an admin user, you will be able to see the “Shared” and “Private” Nessus policies.

• Deleting a policy – nessus_policy_del :

If you are an admin, you will be able to delete a policy.

In the following post we will describe the plugin, scan, report and the “nessus_find_targets” generic command.