Comparison of Metasploit and Hydra: Ethical Hacking Tools

Introduction:
Network attacks are very common nowadays, and are caused by intrusion in the network
infrastructure in which the attacker first analyse network environment and then collect information
from so as to exploit the vulnerabilities and/or open ports. Metasploit and Hydra are the two ethical
hacking tools or we can say that platforms that are used for testing these vulnerabilities and/or open
ports in the network, to fix them and to prevent those attacks in future. We would discuss about
these tools in this presentation.
Outline of the presentation:
First of all we would compare both of the tools, followed by demonstration of task performed using
these two tools. We would further compare the features of both the tools and suggest use of one on
the basis of case study. Below are the description of the tools:
Metasploit: For the development as well as execution of exploits this is perhaps the best tool. Its
efficiency lies in its architecture where exploitation can be done with payloads, no-op generators
and encoders. In this penetration kids dozens of modules and hundreds of exploits are weekly
updated.
Hydra: THC hydra is the best suited tools to apply brute force on a given remote authentication
service. This tools is reliable, customizable and fast enough and can hack thirty and above protocols
[2].
Demonstration of the task:
The task using Metasploit framework would be progressed in the following manner
First we have started the PostgreSQL and Metasploit as seen in the figure
Setup metasploit database

Connect to msfconsole:
Check for available vulnerability modules:

Check for options available in the module:
Run vulnerability scan, checking with the IP address of the machine to be attacked