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HACK LIKE A PRO

Getting Started with

BackTrack, Your New Hacking
System
BY OCCUPYTHEWEB & 05/17/2013 6:55 PM ' 08/14/2014 7:04 PM

HACK LIKE A PRO

W elcome back, my fledgling hackers!

In one of my recent articles, I showed you how to

install BackTrack as a dual boot system on a Windows
computer. In this tutorial, I will walk you through
BackTrack, giving you a tour of the most salient
features for the hacker-to-be.

NOTE: BackTrack Is No Longer

Supported; Switch to Kali Linux
BackTrack is no longer supported by the developers, so
we have stopped using it as our primary hacking
system here on Null Byte. Instead, please check out my
guide on installing Kali LinuxLinux, which is what we
now use for most hacks in Null Byte. Of course, you can
still read on below if you'd like to get a little
information about what BackTrack was and how it
worked.

As you can see in the screenshot above, I've installed

the most recent version of BackTrack, version 5 release
3 (generally referred to BT5r3). My install is the 64-bit
version with the KDE interface, but the GNOME
interface works just as well and has all the same
features. I just prefer the KDE.

The BackTrack Menu

Similar to Windows start button, we have a button with
the BackTrack icon in the lower left-hand corner along
the lower panel.

When you click on it, it opens up a collection of multi-

nested menus just like Windows. Let's go through each
of them from bottom to top.

Step 1

Leave Menu
The first menu we come to is titled "Leave." This is
where we would go when we want to shutdown
BackTrack.

The sub-menus here are all self-explanatory.

End Session
Lock Screen
Start a parallel session as a different user

Step 2

Utilities Menu
We're going to skip over a few menu choices as they are
not salient to our hacking tutorials, so go up to
"Utilities."

Akonaditray (a personal information manager)

Klipper (a clipboard tool)
KWrite (text editor similar to notepad),
Terminator (a way of managing multiple
terminals)
WBarConf (a tool for managing your KDE bars)

Step 3

The System Menu

The next menu we'll look at is titled "System," which
contains applications that are crucial to the hacker.
When we hover over System we see Airoscript-ng and
Airoscript-ng GTK
GTK. These are scripts for using
Aircrack-ng to hack wireless. I'll do a tutorial on those
in the near future, so stay tuned.

We also see

Dolphin (a file manager similar to Windows

Explorer)
EtherApe (a graphical network model)
Htop (a process viewer)
KinfoCenter (an information center about your
computer, i.e. CPU, memory, DMA, etc)

Below KinfoCenter we find probably the most important

utility in any Linux system:

Konsole (a terminal)

Any true hacker MUST become familiar with the

terminal. For the remaining tools, we have:

KpackageKit (download packages)

KRandRTray (resizing windows)
System Monitor (self-explanatory)

Step 4

The Internet Menu

Now we're going to jump up to the "Internet" menu and
we can see EtherApe appears here again (it was also
under "System").

Also, there's:

Firefox (web browser)

Konqueror (web browser)
Wicd (for connecting to Wi-Fi)
Zenmap (the network reconnaissance tool nmap
overlaid with a nice GUI).

We'll be using nmap for target reconnaissance in a

tutorial coming soon.

Step 5

BackTrack!
At the very top of the menu, we find the "BackTrack"
menu! This is where we'll be spending most of our time
as hackers. The BackTrack menu has shortcuts to the
hundreds of hacking tools in BackTrack.

These tools are too numerous to list here, but as you

can see BackTrack classifies them into the following:

"Information Gathering"
"Vulnerability Assessment"
"Exploitation tools"
"Privilege Escalation"
"Mainataining Access"
"Reverse Engineering"
"RFID Tools"
"Stress Testing"
"Forensics"
"Reporting Tools"
"Services"
"Miscellaneous"

Over the next several tutorials, we'll examine each of

these set of tools.

Step 6

Exploitation Tools
If we hover over "Exploitation Tools," those of you who
have following my earlier tutorials will see some
familiar territory. Exploitation Tools opens a sub-menu
of numerous types of Exploitation Tools and if we hover
over "Network Exploitation" we will see my favorite
tool, "Metasploit Framework."

For those of you who are just getting started in hacking,

Metasploit is a powerful network exploitation tool and
I have a number Metasploit tutorials here, so take a
look at them if you aspire to become an expert hacker.

So that's the quick and dirty tour of BackTrack, my

fledgling hackers. In my coming tutorials, I'll show you
how to use many of the best hacking tools in
BackTrack, so keep coming back!

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29 Comments

MOHAMED SALAH AHMED

6 YEARS AGO -2 HIDDEN

OCCUPYTHEWEB
6 YEARS AGO 2 $ #

Mohamed:

In order to help you, I need more information. What

have you done so far?

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MOHAMED SALAH AHMED
6 YEARS AGO 1 $ #

well u helped me already i red your comments in

another guide thanks mate :)

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X-OR45 QWERTY
6 YEARS AGO 1 $ #

I have the same pb please help me $ #

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RAJ TRIPATHI
6 YEARS AGO 1 $ #

Guys just sharing, I've found this interesting! Check it

out! http://best-hacker-tools.blogspot.com $ #

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OSCAR
6 YEARS AGO 1 $ #

ive down lodged it but my computer said it cannot

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file what do i do

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OCCUPYTHEWEB
6 YEARS AGO 1 $ #

Hi Oscar! $ #

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Welcome to Null Byte!

Are you trying to burn it to a DVD?

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JAN FALL FRADASH

6 YEARS AGO 1 $ #

Is This BackTrack ThiNg Can be Bought ?

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OCCUPYTHEWEB
6 YEARS AGO 1 $ #

Jan:
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Welcome to Null Byte!

BackTrack is free! You can download it at

www.backtrack-linux.org.

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X-OR45 QWERTY
6 YEARS AGO 1 $ #

Hi Jan :

You have to download it here http://www.backtrack-

linux.org/downloads/

X-OR45

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8 GLASSES
6 YEARS AGO 1 $ #

Hey, so I went to backtrack's website and it says that I

should download this instead.

I've no clue how is this compatible with my OS (I'm

using Win 8 btw)

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OCCUPYTHEWEB
6 YEARS AGO 1 $ #

8 Glasses:

Welcome to Null Byte!

You can go ahead and download Kali. These are Linux

distributions, so that are complete operating systems.
There is no issue of compatibility, but you have to
either install it in a VM (Virtual Box or VMWare) or as
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a dual boot system.

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8 GLASSES
6 YEARS AGO 1 $ #

How do I do that? Do you have any posts about it?

Thanks

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OCCUPYTHEWEB
6 YEARS AGO 1 $ #

8 Glasses: $ #

In the very first line of this tutorial, there is a link to my

tutorial on creating a dual boot system.

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HAITIAN DUCK
6 YEARS AGO 1 $ #

Now I successfully install Backtrack dual boots together

with Windows 7. But in BT, I can't connect to internet. I
followed your Linux basic tutorials until part 10, sir. So
please tell me if you need any system information to
clarify them. Please help me with the network. I have
both wire and wireless options to use. They worked
well in windows and the previous Kali.

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OCCUPYTHEWEB
6 YEARS AGO 2 $ #

If it worked well with Kali, use Kali then.

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HAITIAN DUCK
6 YEARS AGO - EDITED 6 YEARS AGO 1 $ #

Problem sovled, Sir.

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DIPEN SHAHI
5 YEARS AGO 1 $ #

its uselessss os it doesnt work in different network,, if i

wud have hack my computer or others then i $ wud use
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keylogger,, not this creeping shit backtrack,, i wasted
my time in this crap,,

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OCCUPYTHEWEB
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If you would invested the time to learn like the others

here on Null Byte, you would have been successful.

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CYBERHITCHHIKER
5 YEARS AGO 2 $ #

Sorry you are having troubles with BT5, Few things

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note:

BT has evolved into Kali so repos for BT5 may

suck some.
If you can not use the command line tools you
should try and looking on Google for GUI based
tools or go back to BT3.
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As for not changing networks, What you mean?
Are so many Pen-Test Distros out there depends on
skill of user.
BT5 Worked great for me back in the day, yeah its
a temperamental bitch but what OS isn't at times?

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JOE ROMAN
5 YEARS AGO 1 $ #

Is there a way to do this for a mac computer?

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OCCUPYTHEWEB
5 YEARS AGO 1 $ #

Yes. You can install it in a VM or a dual boot system

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VAL OZUNA
5 YEARS AGO 1 $ #

I have Linux mint on my PC is Kali an is or can

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download specific tools from linux ? I use Linux to build
android so don't really want to dual boot. Can I
download the tools I need using terminal on my current
os? Linux mint! Thanks!

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OCCUPYTHEWEB
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Yes, you can, but it will be a lot of work. In addition,

the directories will likely be different and some other
features of Linux are optimized in Kali for hacking. If
you are a Linux, expert, I'm sure you can do it.

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MANISH KUMAR
5 YEARS AGO 1 $
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havig trouble in connecting to net in Linux using mibile

broadband
please help

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OCCUPYTHEWEB
5 YEARS AGO 1 $ #

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Can you be more specific on what problems you are
having? Can you provide us a screenshot?

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UNP1U9
4 YEARS AGO 1 $ #

hey guys can i still use and update backtrack $

5 r3 in#
2016

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