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You're reading from Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing, Second Edition Secure your network with Kali Linux – the ultimate white hat hackers' toolkit

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787120235

Length 510 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Kali Linux

Concepts

Penetration Testing

Author (1):

Vijay Kumar Velu

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Preface

1. Goal-Based Penetration Testing FREE CHAPTER

2. Open Source Intelligence and Passive Reconnaissance

3. Active Reconnaissance of External and Internal Networks

4. Vulnerability Assessment

5. Physical Security and Social Engineering

6. Wireless Attacks

7. Reconnaissance and Exploitation of Web-Based Applications

8. Attacking Remote Access

9. Client-Side Exploitation

10. Bypassing Security Controls

11. Exploitation

12. Action on the Objective

13. Privilege Escalation

14. Command and Control

Index

VirtualBox

VirtualBox is similar to the VMware Workstation Player and is the hypervisor that is completely open source and a free desktop application from where you can run any virtual machine from the host operating system. VirtualBox can be downloaded from this URL:https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

We will now go ahead and install Kali on VirtualBox. Similar to VMware, we will just execute the downloaded executable that should lead us to the following screenshot:

Once we click on Next, the VirtualBox should provide options to custom select the different ways to store, but by default, we would be selecting VirtualBox Application:

Click on Next; you will be able to see the progress as shown in the following screenshot:

The following screenshot provides the confirmation on successful installation of Oracle VirtualBox:

So the next step is to install Kali Linux into VirtualBox. Click on New from the menu and that should take us to the following screen, where we can type the name of our choice and select the right version of the platform: for example, 64-bit Debian or 32-bit Debian as per the ISO image that we downloaded:

Click on Next and provide the size of RAM required for Kali. We recommend the RAM to be at least 1 GB. By clicking on Next, we will be creating a virtual hard drive for Kali Linux on the host operating system. Click on Next to choose the hard disk file type: mostly, we select VDI (Virtualbox Disk Image), as shown in the following screenshot: