Important tools in Kali Linux
Once you have Kali Linux up and running, you can start playing with the tools. Since this book is on web application hacking, all the major tools that we would be spending most of our time are under Applications | Web Application. Following screenshot shows the tools present under Web Application:
In Kali Linux 2.0, tools under Web Applications are further divided into four categories as listed here:
- Web application proxies
- Web vulnerability scanners
- Web crawlers and directory browsing
- CMS and framework identification
Web application proxies
A HTTP proxy is one of the most important tools in the kit of a web application hacker and Kali Linux includes several of those. A feature that you miss in one proxy would surely be there in some other proxy which highlights the real advantage of Kali Linux with it vast repository of tools.
A HTTP proxy is a software that sits in between the browser and the website intercepting all the traffic that flows between them. The main...
