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Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook

Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook

By : Himanshu Sharma
3.8 (20)
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Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook

Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook

3.8 (20)
By: Himanshu Sharma

Overview of this book

With the current rate of hacking, it is very important to pentest your environment in order to ensure advanced-level security. This book is packed with practical recipes that will quickly get you started with Kali Linux (version 2016.2) according to your needs, and move on to core functionalities. This book will start with the installation and configuration of Kali Linux so that you can perform your tests. You will learn how to plan attack strategies and perform web application exploitation using tools such as Burp, and Jexboss. You will also learn how to perform network exploitation using Metasploit, Sparta, and Wireshark. Next, you will perform wireless and password attacks using tools such as Patator, John the Ripper, and airoscript-ng. Lastly, you will learn how to create an optimum quality pentest report! By the end of this book, you will know how to conduct advanced penetration testing thanks to the book’s crisp and task-oriented recipes.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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6
Wireless Attacks – Getting Past Aircrack-ng

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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