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Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook Practical recipes that combine strategies, attacks, and tools for advanced penetration testing

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789952308
Length 472 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Himanshu Sharma Himanshu Sharma
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Kali - An Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Gathering Intel and Planning Attack Strategies 3. Vulnerability Assessment - Poking for Holes 4. Web App Exploitation - Beyond OWASP Top 10 5. Network Exploitation 6. Wireless Attacks - Getting Past Aircrack-ng 7. Password Attacks - The Fault in Their Stars 8. Have Shell, Now What? 9. Buffer Overflows 10. Elementary, My Dear Watson - Digital Forensics 11. Playing with Software-Defined Radios 12. Kali in Your Pocket - NetHunters and Raspberries 13. Writing Reports 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Setting up proxychains

Sometimes, we need to remain untraceable while performing a pentest activity. Proxychains helps us by allowing us to use an intermediary system whose IP can be left in the logs of the system without the worry of it tracing back to us.

Proxychains is a tool that allows any application to follow the connection via proxy, such as SOCKS5 and Tor.

How to do it...

Proxychains is already installed in Kali. However, we need a list of proxies in its configuration file that we want to use:

  1. To do that, we open the config file of proxychains in a text editor with this command:
leafpad /etc/proxychains.conf

The following screenshot shows the output of the preceding command:

We can add all the proxies we want in the place highlighted in the previous screenshot and then save. Proxychains also allows us to use dynamic chain or random chain while connection to proxyservers.

  1. In the config file, uncomment dynamic_chain or random_chain. The following screenshot shows the output of the preceding command:

Using proxychains with Tor

  1. To use proxychains with Tor, we first need to install Tor using the following command:
apt-get install tor
  1. Once it is installed, we run Tor by typing tor in the Terminal.
  2. We then open another Terminal and type the following command to use an application via proxychains:
proxychains toolname –arguments

The following screenshot shows the output of the preceding command:

Now let's have a look at the Routerhunter tool in the next recipe.

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Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook - Second Edition
Published in: Mar 2019
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781789952308
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