This article demonstrates how to install the Metasploit Framework with Kali Linux on WSL version 2. When installing Kali Linux for WSL2 using Microsoft Store, its file size is minimised by including the bare essentials by default.

Pre-requisites

This example assumes that you have the following:

• Windows Subsystem For Linux version 2 (WSL2) - This example is not tested on WSL version 1
• Kali Linux for WSL2

Instructions

Step 1 - Update the repositories

sudo apt update

Step 2 - Install and enable PostgreSQL

sudo apt install postgresql
sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql start

Step 3 - Download the Metasploit Framework installation file

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-omnibus/master/config/templates/metasploit-framework-wrappers/msfupdate.erb

Step 4 - Install the Metasploit Framework

./msfupdate.erb

Step 5 -Verify the installation

To confirm that the Metasploit Framework was successfully installed, attempt to launch components supported by the framework.

To launch the Metasploit Framework command-line interface, run:

msfconsole

The below screen capture displays msfconsole launched with an ASCII-art banner.

You can use exit to exit msfconsole and attempt to launch the msfvenom, the command-line instance of Metasploit.

msfconsole

If the installation was successful, the help page will be displayed as demonstrated below.