Kali Linux 2017.2 official Release

by do son · Published September 21, 2017 · Updated November 4, 2024

Today, Kali Linux developer team official release Kali Linux 2017.2.

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What’s new?

Many tools and packages have been updated

The release includes updates to both the base platform packages that came with Debian Testing and directly to the tools of Kali Linux itself. In general, the number of updated and new packages exceeds 1,500.

New tools added

hurl is a small but useful hexadecimal and URL encoder/decoder
phishery – allows you to implement phishing URLs of basic authentication with SSL support in Word documents .docx
ssh-audit – auditor of SSH servers, which checks encryption types, banners, compression and other
apt2 is a set of tools for automated penetration testing that runs its own scans or imports results from various scanners and performs actions against found targets
bloodhound – uses graph theory to identify hidden links and paths of attack in an Active Directory environment.
crackmapexec – a follow-up tool for automating the evaluation of large Active Directory networks
dbeaver is a powerful graphical database management interface that supports the most popular databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLite and many others.
brutespray – automatically scans the credentials on the found services

In addition to new packages, this release also includes numerous packet updates, including jd-gui, dnsenum , edb-debugger, wpscan , watobo, burpsuite and many others.

Integration Improvements

When viewing help on commands, you can see examples that will not work when running in Kali Linux. This is not due to the fact that the program does not work, but because of the peculiarities of the launch site, the way of installation.

Examples of starting SMBmap from the documentation:

Examples:

$ python smbmap.py -u jsmith -p password1 -d workgroup -H 192.168.0.1
$ python smbmap.py -u jsmith -p ‘aad3b435b51404eeaad3b435b51404ee:da76f2c4c96028b7a6111aef4a50a94d’ -H 172.16.0.20
$ python smbmap.py -u ‘apadmin’ -p ‘asdf1234!’ -d ACME -h 10.1.3.30 -x ‘net group “Domain Admins” /domain’

The lines begin with “python smbmap.py”, because the author meant that you cloned the program files to your disk, moved to the program directory and started it there.

In Kali Linux, where symbolic links are made to the program files, it would be correct to run this way:

Examples:

$ smbmap -u jsmith -p password1 -d workgroup -H 192.168.0.1
$ smbmap -u jsmith -p ‘aad3b435b51404eeaad3b435b51404ee:da76f2c4c96028b7a6111aef4a50a94d’ -H 172.16.0.20
$ smbmap -u ‘apadmin’ -p ‘asdf1234!’ -d ACME -h 10.1.3.30 -x ‘net group “Domain Admins” /domain’