The sbd command is a netcat clone that offers decent encryption, allows for command execution, and will install on Linux or Windows. You are likely aware of netcat and all of the different ways you can use it including reverse shells, port scanning, etc. The sbd command is a great tool for opening up protected…
The bulk_extractor tool is one of the tools on Backtrack that a single article is not going to do it a lot of justice but hopefully after reading the below you will be able to see the benefits and understand basic usage of this amazing tool. The bulk_extractor actually reminds me of various tools such…
The ss command is not necessarily specific to Backtrack but is typically included in most Linux or UNIX distributions. This is definitely a core utility though that should be in any pen testers arsenal as it provides great information about any type of socket socket including DCCP sockets, RAW sockets, TCP sockets, UDP sockets and…
So many of the DNS enumeration scripts available in backtrack focus on typical DNS but reverseraider does what it sounds like it might do which is enumerate reverse DNS names. Enumerating reverse DNS on an IP or set of IP’s can sometimes reveal information you did not previously have. It is possible to be targeting…
I remember being so happy about 0trace when I started to write some Backtrack related articles because even though 0trace is fairly simple it is really useful to locate the full path to devices you are investigating. In the article below I will explain the necessary 0trace input from the command line, what needs to…
One of my favorite apps in Backtrack Linux that I recently discovered is wpscan. There are a ton of WordPress sites in the wild and using wpscan is an excellent way to begin an audit on a WP site. There are a couple things that wpscan does that is really amazing such as enumerating logins…
Awhile back purehate and myself started writing articles related to Backtrack in an attempt to write a single article about each application available within Backtrack 4. Things came up and we never accomplished that goal so here we go again with a second attempt to write a single article for every Backtrack application. If you…
If you are running a Backtrack VM via VMware Player on Windows 7 then you will want to make sure that VMware Tools is installed. This will allow your host OS to communicate properly with the guest Operating System which in this case is Backtrack 5 release 2. The VMware Tools description page also lists…