Environment configuration and setup

While our basic Kali setup is up and running, we also need to install and configure some additional services that we might need during our assessment. In the upcoming sections, we will discuss a few such useful services in Kali Linux.

Web server

A web server is going to be of help to us during the exploitation phase, wherein we may need to host a backdoor executable. The Apache web server is installed by default in Kali Linux. We can start the Apache web server using the service apache2 start command, as shown in the following screenshot.

We can verify whether the service started successfully by using the netstat -an | grep ::80 command:

Now that the Apache server is up and running, we...