module

Gather AWS EC2 Instance Metadata

Disclosed
N/A
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module will attempt to connect to the AWS EC2 instance metadata service
and crawl and collect all metadata known about the session'd host.

Author

Platform

Unix

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


msf > use post/multi/gather/aws_ec2_instance_metadata
msf post(aws_ec2_instance_metadata) > show actions
...actions...
msf post(aws_ec2_instance_metadata) > set ACTION < action-name >
msf post(aws_ec2_instance_metadata) > show options
...show and set options...
msf post(aws_ec2_instance_metadata) > run

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