Metasploit Framework training goes beyond running canned exploits. This program walks you through reconnaissance, exploit selection, payload generation, post-exploitation, and Active Directory attacks using Metasploit as your core toolkit, alongside Nmap, Meterpreter, and msfvenom. Because Rapid7 no longer runs a standalone Metasploit certification exam, kodestree’s course is built to prepare you for the practical, hands-on certifications employers actually ask for, while giving you a verifiable course-completion credential of your own.
Prerequisites
This course is technical from day one, so a bit of groundwork makes the labs much more productive. Before enrolling, you should have:
- Basic understanding of networking (TCP/IP, ports, protocols, DNS)
- Comfort working in both Windows and Linux environments
- Familiarity with the Linux command line (Kali Linux experience is a bonus, not a requirement)
- A general awareness of common vulnerabilities (weak credentials, unpatched services, misconfigurations)
- No prior Metasploit or scripting experience is required, the course starts from the fundamentals
Course Objectives
- Install, configure, and navigate the Metasploit Framework and msfconsole confidently
- Chain reconnaissance and scanning modules into a repeatable pentest workflow
- Select, configure, and launch exploits against vulnerable services accurately
- Generate and customize payloads with msfvenom, including basic evasion techniques
- Operate Meterpreter for post-exploitation, privilege escalation, and pivoting
- Apply Metasploit modules to Active Directory attack paths
- Automate repetitive tasks using resource scripts and the Metasploit Ruby API
- Translate lab results into a professional penetration test report
What You Will Learn
- Metasploit Framework architecture: modules, mixins, payloads, and the msfconsole workflow
- Integrating Nmap and vulnerability scanners directly into Metasploit workspaces
- Matching CVEs and known vulnerabilities to the correct exploit modules
- Staged versus stageless payloads, encoders, and Metasploit’s evasion module framework
- Meterpreter post-exploitation: credential harvesting, persistence, and lateral movement
- Kerberos, LDAP, and SMB-based attacks against Active Directory environments
- How current Metasploit releases tag modules with MITRE ATT&CK technique IDs for faster mapping
- How 2026’s expanding AI and LLM attack surface is showing up in new Metasploit scanner modules
- Writing resource scripts to automate repeatable engagement steps
- Structuring findings into a client-ready penetration test report
Who Should Take This Course?
This course fits anyone who needs to move from reading about exploitation to actually doing it in a controlled lab environment.
- Aspiring penetration testers preparing for OSCP, PNPT, or similar hands-on certifications
- SOC analysts who want to understand attacker tooling from the offensive side
- Network and system administrators responsible for internal vulnerability validation
- IT professionals transitioning into an ethical hacking or red team career path
- CEH- or Security+-certified professionals looking to add practical exploitation skills
- Cybersecurity students who want lab experience beyond theory-only coursework
Skills You Will Gain
- Exploit selection, configuration, and execution using msfconsole
- Payload generation and basic evasion techniques with msfvenom
- Meterpreter session management, pivoting, and privilege escalation
- Structured reconnaissance-to-exploitation workflow
- Active Directory attack paths: Kerberoasting, SMB relay, credential reuse
- Resource scripting for repeatable engagement tasks
- Basic use of the Metasploit Ruby API for custom workflows
- Translating raw exploitation results into a structured, client-ready report
- Working within defined scope and rules of engagement, as expected on real assessments
Tools Covered
- Metasploit Framework (msfconsole) and the current 6.x release line
- msfvenom for payload generation and encoding
- Meterpreter for post-exploitation and pivoting
- Nmap, integrated directly into Metasploit workspaces via db_nmap
- Kali Linux as the primary lab operating environment
- BloodHound concepts for Active Directory attack-path mapping
- Wireshark for traffic inspection during lab exercises
- Resource scripts and the Metasploit Ruby API for automation
Career Outcomes
Metasploit proficiency shows up as a required or preferred skill across a wide range of offensive and defensive security roles, including:
- Penetration Tester
- Ethical Hacker
- Red Team Analyst
- Vulnerability Assessment Analyst
- SOC Analyst (offensive-aware defender track)
- Security Consultant
- Junior Security Researcher
Because Metasploit is a core tool inside certifications like OSCP+, PNPT, and CPENT rather than a stand-alone credential, this course is positioned as the practical foundation those exams expect you to already have.
Why Choose kodestree?
Here’s what you get when you train with kodestree:
- Live, instructor-led sessions taught by working penetration testers
- Hands-on labs against real, purpose-built vulnerable targets
- Curriculum updated to reflect current Metasploit Framework releases
- Flexible weekday, weekend, and fast-track batch options
- Recorded sessions and lifetime access to course material
- Guidance on how this course maps to OSCP, PNPT, and other industry certifications
- Corporate and 1-on-1 training options
- Placement assistance and resume support after course completion
