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Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook End-to-end penetration testing solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787121829
Length 376 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
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Himanshu Sharma Himanshu Sharma
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Kali – An Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Gathering Intel and Planning Attack Strategies 3. Vulnerability Assessment 4. Web App Exploitation – Beyond OWASP Top 10 5. Network Exploitation on Current 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. Playing with Software-Defined Radios 11. Kali in Your Pocket – NetHunters and Raspberries 12. Writing Reports

Radio frequency scanners


RTLSDR is a very cheap (around 20 USD) software-defined radio that uses a DVB-T TV tuner dongle. In this recipe, we will cover connecting an RTLSDR device with Kali Linux to test whether it was detected successfully.

Getting ready

We will need some hardware for this recipe. It's easily available for purchase from Amazon or from https://www.rtl-sdr.com/buy-rtl-sdr-dvb-t-dongles/. Kali already has tools for us to get going with it.

How to do it...

We connect our device and it should be detected in Kali Linux. It's common for the devices to behave inaccurately. Here is the recipe to run the test:

  1. We will first run the test using the command:
rtl_test

The following screenshot shows the output of the preceding command:

  1. We may see some packet drops. This is because of trying this in a VM setup with only USB 2.0.
  1. In case there are a lot of packet drops, we can test it by setting a lower sampling rate with rtl_test -s 10000000:
  1. Now, we are all set to move on to the next recipe and...
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