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Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook

By : Himanshu Sharma
Book Image

Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook

By: Himanshu Sharma

Overview of this book

With the current rate of hacking, it is very important to pentest your environment in order to ensure advanced-level security. This book is packed with practical recipes that will quickly get you started with Kali Linux (version 2016.2) according to your needs, and move on to core functionalities. This book will start with the installation and configuration of Kali Linux so that you can perform your tests. You will learn how to plan attack strategies and perform web application exploitation using tools such as Burp, and Jexboss. You will also learn how to perform network exploitation using Metasploit, Sparta, and Wireshark. Next, you will perform wireless and password attacks using tools such as Patator, John the Ripper, and airoscript-ng. Lastly, you will learn how to create an optimum quality pentest report! By the end of this book, you will know how to conduct advanced penetration testing thanks to the book’s crisp and task-oriented recipes.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Disclaimer
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
6
Wireless Attacks – Getting Past Aircrack-ng

Configuring Kali Linux


We will use the official Kali Linux ISO provided by Offensive Security to install and configure different desktop environments such as Mate, e17, Xfce, LXDE, and KDE desktops.

Getting ready

To start with this recipe we will use the 64-bit Kali Linux ISO listed on the Offensive Security website:

https://www.kali.org/downloads/

Note

For users looking to configure Kali in a virtual machine such as VMware, VirtualBox, and so on, a pre-built image of the Linux can be downloaded from https://www.offensive-security.com/kali-linux-vmware-virtualbox-image-download/.

We will use the virtual image in this chapter and customize it with some additional tools.

How to do it...

You can configure Kali with the help of the given steps:

  1. Double-click on the VirtualBox image, it should open with VirtualBox:
  1. Click Import:
  1. Start the machine and enter the password as toor:
  1. Now, Kali is started and by default is configured with the GNOME desktop environment:

How it works...

With the pre-built image you don't need to worry about the installation process. You can consider it as a ready-to-go solution. Simply click on run and the virtual machine will boot up Linux just like a normal machine.