Top 5 Tools in Kali Linux :

 

Top 5 Tools in Kali Linux : ******************************** Note : Complete Tutorials about these tools will be posted soon on the page. 1 : Aircrack-ng : ******************** Aircrack-ng is a network software suite consisting of a detector, packet sniffer, WEP and WPA/WPA2-PSK cracker and analysis tool for 802.11 wireless LANs. It works with any wireless network interface controller whose driver supports raw monitoring mode and can sniff 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g traffic. The program runs under Linux and Windows. 2 : Burpsuit : **************** Burp Suite is an integrated platform for performing security testing of web applications. It is not a point-and-click tool, but is designed to be used by hands-on testers to support the testing process. With a little bit of effort, anyone can start using the core features of Burp to test the security of their applications. Burp's user-driven workflow is by the far the most effective way to perform web security testing, and will take you way beyond the capabilities of any conventional point-and-click scanner. 3 : Hydra : ************* When you need to brute force crack a remote authentication service, Hydra is often the tool of choice. It can perform rapid dictionary attacks against more then 30 protocols, including telnet, ftp, http, https, smb, several databases, and much more. 4 : John The Ripper : ************************* John the Ripper is a free password cracking software tool. Initially developed for the Unix operating system, it now runs on fifteen different platforms (eleven of which are architecture-specific versions of Unix, DOS, Win32, BeOS, and OpenVMS). It is one of the most popular password testing and breaking programs as it combines a number of password crackers into one package, autodetects password hash types, and includes a customizable cracker. 5 : Maltego : *************** Maltego is an open source intelligence and forensics application. As a penetration tester you might have to go out a gather a whole bunch of data on your client’s organization, for example what web servers they are using, what top level domains they use, what kind of email servers they are sending SMTP from, their MX records, IP addresses etc. Maltego helps to gather all this information by collecting the data and organizing it in an efficient manner. Maltego has a GUI that makes this all very simple and with just a few clicks you can scrap a vast amount of data is an easy to read format. Maltego is including in Kali Linux, BackTrack and BackBox. The fastest way to launch maltego is just to enter the term ‘maltego’ in the terminal (within Kali Linux). it allows you to enumerate network and domain information like Domain Names, Whois Information, DNS Names, Netblocks, IP Addresses etc. Maltego also allows you to enumerate People information like : ** Email addresses associated with a person’s name ** Web sites associated with a person’s name ** Phone numbers associated with a person’s name ** Social groups that are associated with a person’s name ** Companies and organizations associated with a person’s name etc.