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2. A CSCE 548 Student Presentation
KALI LINUX
(an Overview of Tools)
A CSCE 548 Student Presentation By
Siddharth Pathak

3. A Debian derived Linux distribution
Mainly for Penetration Testing
Contains several hundred tools (>600)
Has a dedicated project for Android called Kali Linux NetHunter
Mati Aharoni, Devon Kearns and Raphaël Hertzog are the core developers.
Has only a small number of trusted dedicated repositories for security purposes

4. Types of Tools
Kali linux has an official categorization of tools into following categories:
Information Gathering
Vulnerability Analysis
Wireless Attacks
Web Applications
Exploitation Tools
Forensic Tools
Stress Testing
Sniffing & Spoofing
Password Attacks
Maintaining Access
Reverse Engineering
Reporting Tools
Hardware Hacking

5. Some popular Tools

6. Nmap Probing Computer Networks Creates a “map” of network
Finds Vulnerabilities
& identifies open ports
GUI version is
Zenmap [image2]

7. Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) Developed by OWASP Free, open source
Penetration Testing
Tool
Finds Vulnerabilities
GUI [image3]

8. Kismet Network Detector Packet Sniffer IDS Works silently
(w/o sending any
loggable packets)
Screenshot [image4]

9. Metasploit Stimulate attacks IDS Anti-forensic Metasploit
Framework tool
for executing
exploit code
Screenshot [image5]

10. KALI LINUX TOOLS

11. KALI LINUX TOOLS

12. Aircrack-ng One of the most popular tools for WEP/WPA/WPA2 cracking.
Predominantly performs Dictionary Attacks
Capture packets and handshakes, de-authenticate connected clients
Includes a new attack 'PTW' developed in 2007
Many GUI counterparts but this is command line
Screenshot: [image6]

13. Wireshark Packet Analyzer Most popular network protocol
analyzer (arguably)
Lets user put an NIC
in promiscuous mode
Screenthot [image7]

14. John The Ripper Command-line based password cracker
Primarily to detect
Weak unix passwords
Most popular because
of it's speed
GUI version Johny [image8]

15. Maltego Relationship Analysis Tool What is connected to who
Can explore links between people, social networks, organizations, web sites, Internet infrastructure, phrases and has tags on Social Media
Produces graphical network diagrams [image9]

16. In Conclusion
It is a great distro to get started with recreational hacking.
It can be professionally used to perform security auditing or vulnerability testing.
It is safe. (As long as you stay withing the confines of the law)
It's easy to set up, and
It's pretty cool.
Just set up a Virtual Machine, boot it up from a USB and give it a whirl, maybe you'll find a new passion.

17. Image Sources: [image 1] https://www.kali.org/ [image 2] Reference [3]
[image 6] hacking-tools-in-kali-linux/
[image 7] By uploader - self-taken screenshot, GPL,
[image 8] Reference [3]
[image 9] Reference [3]

18. References: [1] https://www.kali.org/
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[3] top-10-security-tools-in-kali-linux html#slide1
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19. THANK YOU