Top 5 most famous tools in kali Linux
Becoming an Ethical Hacker is not easy as becoming a software developer, or coder. An Ethical Hacker is also a Penetration Tester who has to have a good understanding of various fields. Not just in the depth of coding languages in C, C++, Python, PHP, etc. Also, need a good knowledge of tools or OS like Linux, Parrot, ubuntu, etc….
In this article, I will cover the Top Kali Linux tools for the beginner Penetration Tester. But if you’ve just installed Kali Linux, before you read further to this, I suggest you read this
If we talk about computer security or network security, the first term came to our mind: Kali Linux…….. Kali Linux is a Linux partition system that was developed with a focus on penetration testing. Previously, Kali Linux was distributed as BackTrack which itself is a merger between three different live Linux penetration testing distributions: IWHAX, WHOPPIX, and Auditor, Kali Linux has around 600 pre-installed penetration-testing tools, If you are a beginner it sounds terrible, for you.
Some pre-installed tools in Kali Linux for penetration testing — -
1- SETOOLKIT
The SET is an open-source penetration testing framework designed for social engineering. SET has several custom attacks that allow us to attack a fraction of time. These kinds of tools use human behaviors to trick them into the attack vectors.
The SET was created and written by Dave Kennedy, the founder of TrustedSec.The attacks built into the toolkit are designed to be targeted and focused attacks against a person or organization used during a penetration test. It has over 2 million downloads and is aimed at leveraging advanced technological attacks in a social-engineering type environment.
If you want to know more about the SET visit on this article —
2- Burpsuite
Burp Suite is a set of many tools used for testing web applications. It is developed by the company named Portswigger, which is also the alias of its founder Dafydd Stuttard. BurpSuite aims to be an all-in-one set of tools and its capabilities can be enhanced by installing add-ons that are called BApps.
Burp gives you full control, letting you combine advanced manual techniques with state-of-the-art automation, to make your work faster, more effective, and more fun.
The tool has three editions:
- Community Edition
- Professional Edition
- Enterprise Edition
3- Nmap (Network mapper)
Nmap is a free and open-source network scanner created by Gordon Lyon. It was written in C++ and first introduced, with source code, in Phrack Magazine in September 1997. The work of Nmap is to be used to discover the host and the services of a computer, Nmap reads and interprets the response that comes back and uses the information to create a map of the network. The map that is created includes detailed information on which port is doing and who is using it, how the hosts are connecting, what is and is not making it through the firewall, and listing any security issues that come up.
4- WhatWeb
WhatWeb identifies websites. Its goal is to answer the question, “What is that Website?”. WhatWeb recognizes web technologies including content management systems (CMS), blogging platforms, statistic/analytics packages, JavaScript libraries, web servers, and embedded devices. WhatWeb has over 1700 plugins, each to recognize something different. WhatWeb also identifies version numbers, email addresses, account IDs, web framework modules, SQL errors, and more.
WhatWeb can be stealthy and fast, or thorough but slow. WhatWeb supports an aggression level to control the trade-off between speed and reliability. When you visit a website in your browser, the transaction includes many hints of what web technologies are powering that website. Sometimes a single webpage visit contains enough information to identify a website but when it does not, WhatWeb can interrogate the website further. The default level of aggression, called ‘stealthy’, is the fastest and requires only one HTTP request of a website. This is suitable for scanning public websites. More aggressive modes were developed for use in penetration tests.
Most WhatWeb plugins are thorough and recognize a range of cues from subtle to obvious. For example, most WordPress websites can be identified by the meta HTML tag, e.g. “, but a minority of WordPress websites remove this identifying tag but this does not thwart WhatWeb. The WordPress WhatWeb plugin has over 15 tests, which include checking the favicon, default installation files, login pages, and checking for “/wp-content/” within relative links.
Features:
- Over 1700 plugins
- Control the trade-off between speed/stealth and reliability
- Plugins include example URLs
- Performance tuning. Control how many websites to scan concurrently.
- Multiple log formats: Brief (greppable), Verbose (human readable), XML, JSON, MagicTree, RubyObject, MongoDB, SQL, and ElasticSearch.
- Proxy support including TOR
- Custom HTTP headers
- Basic HTTP authentication
- Control over webpage redirection
- Nmap-style IP ranges
- Fuzzy matching
- Result certainty awareness
- Custom plugins defined on the command line
The Source of this WhatWeb information is — kali.org
5- Crunch
In order to hack a password, we have to try a lot of passwords (which is called Dictionary attack) to get the right one. When an attacker uses thousands or millions of words or character combinations to crack a password there is no surety that any one of those millions of combinations will work or not. to generate the wordlist for attacking. That's why crunch is used. A crunch is an inbuilt tool from Kali Linux. Crunch helps in creating a custom wordlist. And that wordlist can be used in John The Ripper, Cain, And Abel, Aircrack-ng, and many more password cracking tools.
Quotes
“If you think you know-it-all about cybersecurity, this discipline was probably ill-explained to you.”
― Stephane Nappo
“Technology like art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.”
― Daniel Bell
“With Cloud Computing, it is no longer a question of If, but rather When and How.”
― Ludmila Morozova-Bussva
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