Exploiting routers with RouterSploit

RouterSploit is a router exploitation framework that is designed especially for embedded devices. It consists of three main modules:

• exploits: This contains a list of all the publically available exploits
• creds: This is used for testing logins for different devices
• scanners: This is used for checking a particular exploit against a particular device

Getting ready

Before we begin, we will have to install RouterSploit in Kali; unfortunately, it does not come with the official installation of the OS. RouterSploit installation is very simple, just like we installed some tools in the beginning of the book.

How to do it...

1. We use the following command to clone the GitHub repository:

git clone https://github.com/reverse-shell/routersploit

2. We go to the directory using the cd routersploit command and run the file as follows:

./rsf.py

The following screenshot shows the output of step 1:

3. To run an exploit against a router, we simply type this:

use exploits/routername/exploitname...