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r/linuxquestions on Reddit: How can I start and what is the best place to learn Kali linux?

September 5, 2023 -

I've been trying to get into linux for a couple of days via virtualbox, the tutorials i see have an outdated version of kali. I would like to be an ethical hacker but how can i start (i'm still in high school)? i've heard that you can learn to ethically hack with Kali linux, and I would really love to get into it, do you guys have any suggestions? what could i do? it would be lovely to receive some help! ;) Thanks

Maybe start by learning how things work in Fedora or Ubuntu. A hacker is someone with good knowledge of operating systems and programming.

https://www.kali.org/docs/introduction/should-i-use-kali-linux/ You don't, that's for people who are already professionals. Install a normal mainstream distribution instead, and install the tools you need there.

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r/Kalilinux on Reddit: What is an easy tool to learn and use tool in Kali?

October 30, 2023 -

I have an assignment to pick any tool in Kali and write no more than a page description of the tool and then provide a demonstration of the tool. The catch is I cannot pick a tool other classmates have. Those include John the Ripper, Hashcat, N Map, Ghidra, AirCrack-NG, and Nikto. Any other tool I can pick but I am a noob that has finally been able to get Kali to work on my Oracle virtual box and need a recommendation on tools quick and easy to pick up on. I have been looking into Hydra or Scapy but am uncertain while my first choice Driftnet I am having issues on getting it downloaded.

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r/Kalilinux on Reddit: Interesting tools in kali?

October 23, 2023 -

I'm a new user to this whole Linux Ecosystem and I was quite intrigued by what Kali has to offer.. Idk much about any of it and I have a real basic idea of "N-map" and "MetaSploit" What are the must learn tools for starters and what resources are best to follow?

If you want to learn how to use the toolkit that Kali is, see www.tryhackme.com

Good morning and welcome to kali ^^ to answer your question it very much depends on your use-case, while kali is primarily a pentesting distro, you wont really need metasploit when you prefer going into forensics or OSINT for example. Generally, if you don't have a clear role in mind and just wanna learn, feel free to check "tryhackme"s courses on specific tools. While you don't necessarily need to do these courses, it definitely gives you a rough selection of programs to start your journey. nmap is a good first step in my opinion here is a few things to look at from my personal use: wireshark Airgeddon tools (airodump, aircrack, etc) burpsuite OpenVAS / GVM Netdiscover bettercap maltego johnny hashcat metasploit as well obviously, however be aware that it automates so much you might end up skipping many steps of learning if you rely on it too much. there are obviously dozens more and i cannot possibly name everything, i hope i was able to give you a small bit of guidance on your journey :3

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Where can I learn how to use Kali and all its tools?

July 29, 2022 - Network Security student here trying to learn more about Kali. Looking to learn Nmap, metasploit, etc. I can't find any youtube projects online besides a couple from this guy network chuck. Are there any more in depth tutorials that explain how to do these things so I can try them and learn these skills? Archived post. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. ... Create your account and connect with a world of communities. ... By continuing, you agree to our User Agreement and acknowledge that you understand the Privacy Policy.

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Tutorial For Using Kali Linux tools : r/Hacking_Tutorials

March 1, 2022 - I just wanted to ask about any resources regarding tools of kali linux and how they work preferably videos if any. ... Create your account and connect with a world of communities. ... By continuing, you agree to our User Agreement and acknowledge that you understand the Privacy Policy.

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r/HowToHack on Reddit: Comprehensive Kali-Linux tool tutorial?

February 20, 2016 -

I see people always talking about kali-Linux, so I gave it a download, and I cant for the life of me understand the tools it comes with. Anybody got a guide or tutorial of some sort?

The tools that are pre-installed aren't necessarily Kali specific, you could install them on any distro. Therefore there isn't a guide to -all- the tools that come with it. However, there are tons of guides for each specific tool if you look for them. There are books that cover pen-testing with Kali if you wanted to start there. Such as Basic Security Testing with Kali Linux 2 and Kali Linux Cookbook. I can't say if any of these are any good though.

Pick up"The Linux Command Line" and "Hacker Playbook 2". Offsec does the "Metasploit Unleashed" online for free. Just plug it in and start using it!

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r/HowToHack on Reddit: Learn how to use kali and its tools.

March 25, 2014 -

I'm currently learning python and I know linux some-what okay. I want to be able to fully learn kali at a point where its "skiddish" and what I mean by that is I"m able to use the pre-made tools and exploits and deploy and use them until I become good enough and experienced to make my own and discover my own. Can anyone help me out with this? Thanks!

So what's your question?

Not trying to be rude or mean.

I don't know what people expect when they post things like this. There are constantly new posts exactly like this one. Do you expect someone to constantly hold your hand and be your personal teacher for the next year or two while you learn how to hack? Not trying to be rude here either, but be realistic in your expectations. Try to learn on your own and then seek help when you have something more specific to ask about.

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r/Hacking_Tutorials on Reddit: How should I study Kali linux? Any tool recommendations?

August 28, 2022 -

I wish to study hacking with Kali linux, but I‘m not sure what tools should I study first.

Is there any coarse you studied, or some recommendations? I wish to know about it.

Maybe an unpopular opinion but I feel like this is asking a carpenter to study their toolbox. Instead of tool-centric learning, it should be outcome or technique based.

Tools are just a means to an end.

Linux basics for hackers.

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r/HowToHack on Reddit: Cool stuff to do with Kali Linux?

June 29, 2014 -

So I just installed Kali Linux on a virtual machine just to see what linux was like and I noticed all of the hacking tools that come pre-installed on it and was wondering if there were any relatively simple projects I could do with these tools. Maybe something that will help me learn what several of those programs do and teach me more about linux?

Go to overthewire.org and do their wargames in the recommended order. The first game is great for beginners learning how to live in the command line. Some of the tools you see can help. If you want to try something and there isn't a wargame for it, just try it on one of your other computers. Try cracking your router encryption with aircrack-ng, for example. Use metasploit (I recommend starting with the Armitage frontend) to look for weaknesses in your pc. Set up burpsuite and tinker with sending websites different information. Look at SET, the Social Engineering Toolkit, to see how spear phishing works (just remember, actually using it on someone is illegal). There's lots of fun to be had and skills to be learned by exploring the tools in kali linux. If you dig deep into the details of how these tools accomplish their tasks you'll end up with a great understanding of computer security. Edit: overthewire.org, not .com

What Areatz suggested below was great. I'd l like to add that you can download a package called "Metasploitable" that has holes in it for you to test various tools. Install it in a Virtual Machine (VM). Since you installed Kali in a VM, you will NOT be able to do any wireless hacking. Don't bother with trying to crack your wireless. Virtual machines will treat your wireless card -assuming you installed this on a laptop with a wireless NIC- as a wired connection. The only way around this is to get a USB (external) wireless adapter. There's no way around this. I use an Alfa AWUS036NHA. This will run you around $25-$30. I've no doubt Areatz, who commented below, knows this. He probably just glossed over the part where you said you installed it in a VM. If you do this and try to crack your router encryption, change the password to something relatively easy (and do it late at night to avoid getting hacked by neighborhood script kiddies). This will help familiarize yourself with the process. Find "The Harvester" in Kali which is an invaluable tool for reconnaissance. It's a command-line (e.g. terminal) program that will search different search engines for publicly available email addresses, subdomains, etc. The Social Engineering Toolkit (SET), as Areatz mentioned below, is good as well. The easiest way to hack into a network is by social engineering. I've consistently heard the 85% (+/- 2%) of hacks are due to successful social engineering. The Social Engineering toolkit will allow you to clone a website (think of cloning the login page and then using a Man-In-The-Middle attack to force someone to visit YOUR cloned login page, then gather the credentials entered while also passing them along to the real login page (or simply passing along those credentials to the real login page with noone the wiser). There's all sorts of other things to do with the SET, but cloning a website is easy with it. Don't rely on something like Armitage to do your hacking for you! You must understand what is going on behind the scenes. If you encounter something like, say, a captive portal on public WiFi, you may not be successful and have no idea what went wrong. (A captive portal is when you log onto WiFi, open your browser, and it says "Click Here to Login to our Wireless Network") You should also understand NMap and its options so you can use something like Armitage but modify the commands it uses before it executes to get around roadblocks put in place to stop people like you. Example: In Armitage when it does an NMap command, it is "db_nmap" if I remember correctly. You can modify the parameters after that command to suit your specific purposes. Don't try hacking anyone if you don't know how to do it. There's a lot more than pressing a few buttons! If you don't know how to hide yourself and do something illegal, the legal penalties for hacking are, IN MOST CASES, more severe than rape, manslaughter, etc. This is because when these computer laws were passed, politicians didn't (and still don't) have a grasp on the big picture. You can easily get 20 years for hacking when you haven't even done any real damage. Why? Nobody wants someone else to point out insecurities in their systems and they will file charges and nail you to the wall. This was the subject of a whole seminar at my last hacking convention! You can install Kali in a dual-boot configuration on your computer. That is how I have my laptop set up. Take a look at Subterfuge (in Kali). It's in the menu but it must be installed. Not all the options work, but the credential harvester is fairly easy to use and can be tried with a friend (or your smartphone) on your own wireless network. If you do get a wireless network adapter (or decide to dual boot and not use Kali in a VM), check out "Fern WiFi Cracker". It's point-and-click hacking for wireless networks. Again, only do this on yourself.

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r/Hacking_Tutorials on Reddit: Give me some Kali Linux tools suggestion

March 15, 2025 -

I am a cybersecurity student. Just started Penetration Testing class at my university. Already learned about some tools in my class and tried them (DNSRecon, DNSEnum, Proxychains, Tor Network, Tor Browser). Apart from the class study, I am learning some other tools by my own like Nmap, Slowloris, Zphisher. I have Penetration Testing class only one day in a week so it will be kinda slow to learn. I want to learn by my own in the meantime. So i want some tools suggestion which tools i need to learn and use. I want to go to the advanced level as i am just a beginner now. So please suggest me some tools that are powerful and important. Thanks so much.

N.B: I am using Kali Linux (Debian 64 bit).

Don't learn tools - learn concepts

Check out Metasploit, Burp Suite, Aircrack-ng, John the Ripper, Hydra, Nikto, Wireshark, Gobuster, and Lynis for a good mix of network and web app testing tools.

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r/Hacking_Tutorials on Reddit: If kali linux is for noobs what are the pros using

January 15, 2024 -

So I'm new to cyber security and I've been learning Linux (Debian) and I was curious to use and learn kali linux, however many people say the kali is for noobs. Why is this? And what are the "pros" using?

The “pros” don’t care what is considered “noob”. They use whatever it is they like, for many that’s Kali, which is also the industry standard, but there’s also parrotos, blackarch, etc. The pros use what will get the job done, not something different for the approval of others

They use Debian or Ubuntu or Fedora and then they Git Clone all the tools from scratch instead of having them already pre-downloaded because it gives them a sense of fulfillment. All jokes aside, those who say Kali is for noobs are noobs themselves self projecting. Kali is basically a tool containing hundreds of tools that is used as an easily deployable PenTest environment. That being said, it makes it attractive to unskilled dumbass kids AKA script kiddies that wanna DDoS their school network because of edgelord reasons or their crush’s router after being rejected. So yeah it gets a bad rep because it’s an easily accessible powerful tool that is abused in the wrong hands but is wonderfully efficient in professional ones.

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r/HowToHack on Reddit: What is your favorite Kali tool and why?

June 27, 2021 -

I’m interested to hear what everyone’s favorite Kali tools are for hacking and why(Nmap and Metasploit aren’t allowed because they are a given) ?

Msfvenom, literally easy mode

CrackMapExec. Other close favorites are Responder and Impacket Scripts. Why? CrackMapExec allows you to spray creds, both plaintext passwords and NTLM hashes around a network and see where you can gain access, as well as run commands. And it's multi protocol. I think it includes ssh, smb, winrm, and mssql. In fact, on the HTB Dante pro lab I found it was easier to use CrackMapExec to spray creds against ssh than it was to use Hydra or Medusa. CME also includes a few very useful modules to dump credentials or execute code. It can be used for everything from enumeration, to credential spraying, to dumping creds, and executing commands. Responder, because LLMNR and NBT-NS broadcasts have led to getting DA before lunchtime on so many internal pentests. And Impacket scripts because ntlmrelayx.py works great in combination with Responder, and I love wmiexec for gaining access to execute code or upload/download files and it doesn't get caught most of the time, unlike psexec. Then mssql and secretsdump scripts are also incredibly useful. The above mentioned tools are a must-have for any Internal network pentest.

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r/Kalilinux on Reddit: Here's the best kali Linux Tools to use

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Going to try Kali Linux : r/hacking

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r/AskNetsec on Reddit: Kali Linux - If you had to pick ONLY five tools to use as an Information Security Manager - what tools would you pick?

January 11, 2016 -

This might sound like a stupid question, but I always find myself distracted by the number of tools Kali has.

I want to narrow down my focus to just a few tools - rather than being the jack of all trades, master of none.

https://tools.kali.org/tools-listing

Irish whiskey. Bourbon Whiskey. Scotch whisky. Gin. Wireshark.

Nmap, wireshark, burp, metasploit, a good text editor

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r/Kalilinux on Reddit: kali linux tools

October 9, 2022 -

what s your peronal favorite hacking tool?

grub. can't get anywhere without it

(shut up LILO)

Nmap and netcat

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r/Kalilinux on Reddit: How to get started with kali

November 22, 2023 - I recommend books such as "Getting started becoming a master hacker", "Linux Basics for hackers" and "network basics for hackers" books as well. Learnt alot from OTW. ... You don’t “learn Kali”, Kali is a tool box, would you go up to a mechanic and say “how do I use your tool box”? No you need to understand whag the tools do, if you don’t understand the OSI model, basic Linux troubleshooting, how things like web servers and networking work, just the basics then Kali is useless to you.

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r/cybersecurity on Reddit: Top 10 useful Kali Linux tools for Blue Team

January 14, 2022 -

Hello guys

Hope you all doing well,

I work in SOC department and I want to know what are top 10 useful tools in kali for Blue team analyst ? Either to investigate, validate incidents or threat hunting.

Vote up so everyone can learn 😇⬆️

Why kali? That’s more for red team not blue team, I use REMnux which is more blue team oriented and has many tools to help with the forensic sides of things. I even wrote a script to automate the tools and help automate our malware investigations.

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r/HowToHack on Reddit: Does using Kali Linux tools make you a script kiddie?

November 15, 2021 -

So I want to learn about Kali Linux tools as much as I can and use them. But does that make me a script kiddie? Understanding what the tools does basically everything about that tool.

If you have to ask, then yes. Worry less about labels, more about what you're doing/learning and why/how it works. "Script-kiddie" generally indicates some wannabe hacker that's going to use tools made by others (as found in Kali) to attempt to break in to a website/network/system, with little interest or understanding about how they work or why, only interested in bragging/showing off/appearing experienced with hacking. The whole script-kiddie/white-hat/black-hat/hacker terminology is so cringe to me anyway. I generally don't use the word "hacker" unless explaining to end-users or business leaders risks associated with some system/process/vulnerability.

Focusing on tools does.

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r/linuxquestions on Reddit: Kali without most (hacking) tools?

February 14, 2024 -

I use kali as daily os despite everyone saying you shouldn't; I like it, it's pretty and you can customize a lot of stuff. I have a very very old laptop and wanted to download kali on it but since it's so bad I was wondering if there's a way to get kali without the hacking tools? I know it's debian but based on youtube videos the desktop and such do not seem that similar.

Basically I want Kali to run on a very low spec laptop.

Otherwise (the laptop might be too old), what os runs the fastest but still doesn't look like windows 4 and such?

I feel like you’re running it to have people think you’re cool :) There’s really no reason to use it unless you actively use the tools. Customizability? It’s Linux - anything can be customized on anything. The entire point of kali is that you use it so you don’t have to install the tools. Just install Debian or Ubuntu or literally whatever and throw on xfce or just run a WM if it’s a REALLY low spec laptop.

It's just Debian with the XFCE desktop, a bit of theming and the ZSH shell. So, install Debian. See this thread regarding the theme.