Hayduk is a free, open-source graphical attack management console for Metasploit Framework. It fills the gap left by Armitage, whose last commit was July 2016.

Homepage: https://github.com/jolovicdev/hayduk
License: MIT
Language: Go (backend), TypeScript/SolidJS (UI)
Platforms: Linux, macOS, Windows (amd64, arm64)

Hayduk ships as a single static Go binary with a browser-based UI. It connects to msfrpcd via the Metasploit RPC API. No JVM or runtime dependencies required.

Features:

• Live network topology graph (the Armitage-style host map)
• Campaign workflows: host discovery, service scans, login attacks
• Hail Mary (launches matching exploits against selected hosts)
• Meterpreter and shell session management with live output
• Full module tree with option editing and payload selection
• Credentials, loot, and event tracking
• HTML report export for client delivery
• Team mode: multiple operators on a shared campaign

Why include in Kali:
Armitage was removed from the Metasploit Framework distribution in 2013 and has not been updated since 2016. Rapid7 ended Metasploit Community Edition in 2019. There is currently no maintained open-source Metasploit GUI available in Kali. Hayduk rebuilds that workflow with zero Java dependencies and works with the metasploit-framework package already in Kali.

Install on Kali:
sudo apt install metasploit-framework (if not already installed)
msfrpcd -P yourpassword -S -f -a 127.0.0.1
./hayduk

Prebuilt binaries: https://github.com/jolovicdev/hayduk/releases
Build from source: requires Go 1.26.1+ and Node, then make && ./bin/hayduk