Running a Bruteforce Attack against a Virtual Machine
You can run a bruteforce attack against vmauthd, the authentication daemon for VMware’s virtual infrastructure client, and for VMware Web Service. If the bruteforce attack successfully guesses the credentials, then you can use the credentials to administer VMware.
Note: You cannot access VMware directly from Metasploit Pro. However, after you gain access to a virtual machine, you can run post-exploitation modules to identify more information about the machine, such as configuration settings, logins, and other virtual machines.
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2.) Click the Analysis tab.
4.) Click Bruteforce. The Bruteforce window appears. Metasploit Pro automatically populates the target address field with the vmauthd target address.
5.) Click Show Advanced Options to configure additional options for the bruteforce attack.
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