Search icon CANCEL
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Your Cart (0 item)
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook Over 80 recipes on how to identify, exploit, and test web application security with Kali Linux 2

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781784392918
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez
Author Profile Icon Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez
Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Setting Up Kali Linux 2. Reconnaissance FREE CHAPTER 3. Crawlers and Spiders 4. Finding Vulnerabilities 5. Automated Scanners 6. Exploitation – Low Hanging Fruits 7. Advanced Exploitation 8. Man in the Middle Attacks 9. Client-Side Attacks and Social Engineering 10. Mitigation of OWASP Top 10 Index

Installing VirtualBox

This is the first of the four recipes that will help us to get a virtual laboratory up and running to practice our penetration tests. We will use a VirtualBox to run the virtual machines in such a laboratory. In this recipe, we will see how to install VirtualBox and get it working.

Getting ready

Before we install anything in Kali Linux, we must make sure that we have the latest version of package lists:

apt-get update

How to do it...

  1. Our first step is the actual installation of VirtualBox:
    apt-get install virtualbox
    
    How to do it...
  2. After the installation finishes, we will find VirtualBox in the menu by navigating to Applications | Usual applications | Accessories | VirtualBox. Alternatively, we can call it from a terminal:
    virtualbox
    
    How to do it...

Now, we have VirtualBox running and we are ready to set up the virtual machines to make our own testing laboratory.

How it works...

VirtualBox will allow us to run multiple machines inside our Kali Linux computer through virtualization. With this, we can mount a full laboratory with different computers using different operating systems and run them in parallel as far as the memory resources and processing power of our Kali host allow us to.

There's more...

The VirtualBox Extension Pack gives the VirtualBox's virtual machine extra features, such as USB 2.0/3.0 support and Remote Desktop capabilities. It can be downloaded from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads. After it is downloaded, just double click on it and VirtualBox will do the rest.

See also

There are some other virtualization options out there. If you don't feel comfortable using VirtualBox, you may want to try:

  • VMware Player/Workstation
  • Qemu
  • Xen
  • KVM
lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime