10 Powerful hacking tools for Kali linux

Kali Linux, the hacker’s operating system is very powerful Linux distro and it is my favorite OS, not only my favorite but also many Hackers and pentesters choosing Kali Linux as their favorite hacking tool. The main reason hackers and newbies like Kali is because it is blessed with 300+ hacking tools and it has developed by Offencive Security team, so today i want to introduce you the top 10 tools i like most in kali linux. Here i am giving tutorials for each hacking tools so everybody can understand it well.

1. Metasploit

Metasploit has become over the years the best framework to conduct penetration testing on network systems and IT infrastructure. The Metasploit Project, or better known as simply ” is a hugely popular pentesting or hacking tool that is used by cyber security professionals and ethical hackers. Metasploit is essentially a computer security project that supplies information about known security vulnerabilities and helps to formulate penetration testing and IDS testing.

Metasploit is in fact a sub-project of the Metasploit Framework. This hacker tool and framework is best known for its anti-forensic and evasion tools, some of which are built into the Metasploit Framework.

2. THC Hydra

Although often considered as yet another password cracker, THC Hydra is hugely popular and has a very active and experienced development team. Essentially THC Hydra is a fast and stable Network Login Hacking Tool that will use dictionary or brute-force attacks to try various password and login combinations against an log in page. This hacking tool supports a wide set of protocols including Mail (POP3, IMAP, etc.), Databases, LDAP, SMB, VNC, and SSH.

 

 

3. Sqlmap

Basically its just a tool to make Sql Injection easier. Their official website introduces the tool as -“sqlmap is an open source penetration testing tool that automates the process of detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws and taking over of database servers. It comes with a powerful detection engine, many niche features for the ultimate penetration tester and a broad range of switches lasting from database fingerprinting, over data fetching from the database, to accessing the underlying file system and executing commands on the operating system via out-of-band connections.”

 

4. Nikto

There are a number of tools and applications to find vulnerabilities in websites, but one of the simplest (and one of my favorites) is nikto.

This small and simple tool examines a website and reports back to you the potential vulnerabilities that it found that you could use to exploit or hack the site. In addition, it’s one of the most widely used website vulnerabilities tools in the industry and in many circles considered the industry standard.

 

5. Ettercap

Ettercap has a huge following and is widely used by cybersecurity professionals. Ettercap works by placing the users network interface into promiscuous mode and by ARP poisoning the target machines, i.e. facilitating a ‘Main In The Middle’ or MITM attack. Once successfull Ettercap (and the hacker) can deploy various attacks on the victims. A popular feature about Ettercap is its’ ability to support various plugins.

 

 

6. BeEF

 

BeEF was developed by a group of developers led by Wade Alcorn. Built on the familiar Ruby on Rails platform, BeEF was developed to explore the vulnerabilities in browsers and test them. In particular, BeEF is an excellent platform for testing a browser’s vulnerability to cross-site scripting (XSS) and other injection attacks.

 

7. Wireshark

Wireshark, formerly known as Ethereal, is one of the mostpowerful tools in a network security analyst’s toolkit. As a network packet analyzer, Wireshark can peer inside the network and examine the details of traffic at a variety of levels, ranging from connection-level information to the bits comprising a single packet. This flexibility and depth of inspection allows the valuable tool to analyze security events and troubleshoot network security device issues. It’s also priced right: it’s free!

 

 

 

8. Maltego

 

Maltego is capable of gathering information about either a network or an individual; here we will focus on the former and leave individual information gathering for another time. We will be looking at gathering info on all the subdomains, the IP address range, the WHOIS info, all of the email addresses, and the relationship between the target domain and others.

 

 

 

9. Msfvenom

From 8th june 2015 we will no longer receive the services of msfpayload and msfencode. They are going to retire permanently. Yeah! Permanently off course this is a bad news. These both tools are serving us since ten years but the time has come to say good bye. Thank you msfpayload and msfencode for serving us in every level of hacking or penetration testing we will never forget you.

But the good news is msfpayload and msfencode are being replaced by a new tool called msfvenom. This is the combination of both the tools, almost from three and half years this new tool is being tested and the time has come to use it.

 

10. Wireless Auditing

In this Section i am introducing you to the 3 wireless hacking tools, Aircrack-ng, Reaver, and Pixiewps. PicaTesHackZ do not condone the illicit activities of wireless auditing on unauthorized systems. We do however encourage you to use this knowledge to your benefit to learn and practice exploitation using the latest in Wireless Auditing. Although I did do a write up about using reaver and pixiewps, there has been updates, I have more tests, and more knowledge on the tools. Please keep in mind it is illegal to penetrate networks that are not your own without proper permission. This falls on you, so do what you will but we will hold no liability for your actions.

If you have some of your own favorites please let us know in comments.

Boost your Wi-Fi easily!!!

 

Are you bogged down by your slow Wi-Fi internet connection, chances are most of you are, since speed can never be enough for most of us. Jokes apart, there might be some issues interfering with your Wi-Fi network leading to slow speeds. However, if you’re 100 per cent sure of your network and are looking for manual tweaking of the network to increase your speed, well, we have got some tricks just for you!

1.Using that handy tinfoil!

This is a quick and easy way to get more range for pennies. Did you know you can use a little tinfoil to increase your signal strength by several decibels. Cheack the following video out by clicking here

 

2.Sharing your Mac’s internet connection wirelessly

System Preferences > Sharing > Internet > Add Source (Ethernet) and the way the other computer will connect (Wi-Fi) > Check Internet Sharing to create a Wi-Fi hotspot

3.NetStumbler

NetStumbler (also known as Network Stumbler) is a tool for Windows that facilitates detection of Wireless LANs using the 802.11b, 802.11a and 802.11g WLAN standards.

4.Turn off SSID broadcasting

Access point admin page > Uncheck ‘Enable SSID Broadcast’ to prevent devices from listing your network as one of the detected options.

5.Limit devices that can connect to your wireless network

Create a device access list of MAC addresses that can access your network.

6.WPA Encryption

Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) and Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2) are two security protocols and security certification programs developed by the Wi-Fi Alliance to secure wireless computer networks. The Alliance defined these in response to serious weaknesses researchers had found in the previous system, WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy).

To switch to WPA: Access point’s admin page > set your WPA passphrase to something difficult to crack.

7.Wireshark

Wireshark is a free and open-source packet analyser. It is used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communications protocol development, and education. Wireshark is cross-platform, using the GTK+ widget toolkit in current releases, and Qt in the development version, to implement its user interface, and using pcap to capture packets; it runs on GNU/Linux, OS X, BSD, Solaris, some other Unix-like operating systems, and Microsoft Windows.

8.Wireless signal repeater

A wireless repeater takes an existing signal from a wireless router or access point and rebroadcasts it to create a second network. When two or more hosts have to be connected with one another over the IEEE 802.11 protocol and the distance is too long for a direct connection to be established, a wireless repeater is used to bridge the gap. It can be a specialiSed stand alone computer networking device. Also, some WNICs optionally support operating in such a mode. Those outside of the primary network will be able to connect through the new “repeated” network.